"Jean-louis Demarne (1752/54 – 1829 Paris), Attributed To"
Jean-Louis DEMARNE (1752/54 – 1829 Paris), attributed to Village festival by the river Oil on canvas, 24 x 32 cm PROVENANCE - Private collection until February 2024 THE ARTIST Student of the history painter Gabriel Biard, Demarne will be inspired by the Dutch painters of the 17th and 18th centuries who were very popular in Paris in the 1780s. He made a trip to Switzerland in 1783 with the painter Taunay, after his aggregation at the academy. largely, while putting his personal touch, major Dutch painters such as Jan Both and Nicholas Berchem for the sky and the characters with smiling faces, the animals of Paulus Potter, everything is tranquility and serenity and prefigures pre-romanticism. 
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