Mountain Landscape

Oil on canvas signed lower right Clément Quinton representing a mountain landscape, farmers, their goats and their cow. Clément Quinton was born in Paris in 1851 and died in Saint-Maur in 1921. He is sometimes also listed under the name of Charles-Henri Quinton. Painter and engraver, student of Léonard Saurfelt, he debuted at the Salon des Artistes français in 1879 where he exhibited regularly and won several prizes. Settled in Saint-Maur in 1900, he was one of the founders with Victor Lecomte of the Société des Amis des arts. He worked in Brittany in Ploumanac'h. In Sweden, he appears in the catalog of the collections of the University of Gothenburg. In the USA, he exhibited in 1893 at the International Exhibition in Chicago, then in New York in 1903. His work is initially linked to the Barbizon school by his way of constructing landscapes, but, sensitive to the influence of Manet, he quickly incorporated the Impressionist innovations in the treatment of light. Decorated with the Palmes Académiques, he enjoyed lasting success thanks to his sensitive landscapes, his endearing genre scenes and his portraits full of emotion.