Amédée Boirgeois - View Of Antic Ruins

Amédée BOURGEOIS Paris, 1798 - Paris, 1837 Oil on canvas 61 x 52 cm (46.5 x 38 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "A. Bourgeois" Period frame Son and student of an engraver Amédée also studied with Baron Gros and Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won the second prize of Rome for historical landscape in 1821 and left for Rome. Bourgeois then devoted himself to depicting historical scenes and especially Roman and Neapolitan landscapes which he exhibited at the Salon in Paris between 1822 and 1833. His works are kept in the Museums of Fine Arts of Lyon, Angers, Lille and Versailles (Lambinet Museum). Our painting depicts ancient ruins, perhaps thermal baths near Rome. The nuances of color in beiges/browns and the cleverly arranged chiaroscuro give this French painting from the neoclassical period its charm.