Louis Cabié (1853-1939) Oak Near Bordeaux Gironde Tree

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ
(Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939)
Oak near Bordeaux
Oil on canvas
H. 38 cm; W. 50 cm
Signed lower left, dated 1900

Provenance: - Private collection, Bordeaux

Louis Cabié, a renowned artist in France and particularly in the Bordeaux region, even during his lifetime, traveled throughout the great southwest throughout his life. A student of Harpignies whose passion for vegetation in the manner of the Barbizon school can be found, he would transcribe the simplicity of picturesque French landscapes until his death. Spectacular trees, forest atmospheres, places full of history, captivating valleys, or even a landscape in its simplest form that he would know how to enhance with a vital contrast.

Our canvas, not precisely located, is to be replaced in the surroundings of Bordeaux, a vast area where Cabié set up his easel episodically for several decades, escaping from the city where he had one of his studios. Pessac, the banks of the Garonne near Portets, Parentis en Born, etc. It is difficult to locate this large oak for the moment without finding another work on which the painter would have left a mention.