Fortuné Viguier (1841-1916) Lively Village Street

A harmony of cleverly chosen gray colors that wonderfully restore the charm of old village streets and bucolic life in the 19th century for this work by Marseille artist Fortuné Viguier. The work is offered in a pretty gilded frame from Maison RG, in Louis XIV style, measuring 56 cm by 43 cm and 40.5 cm by 27.5 cm for the canvas alone. It represents a village street certainly in the Alpes de Haute Provence animated by two characters and a donkey. In excellent condition, the work is signed lower left.

Student of Lagier, Loubon, Jeanron in Marseille and Bonnat in Paris. He painted landscapes of the Marseille suburbs and inland Provence in the light of Corot. He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1869 to 1881, and regularly at the Salon de Marseille. He also exhibited at the Association of Fine Arts in Cannes in 1906 and 1907, at the Society of Friends of the Arts in Bordeaux from 1872 to 1876. He received several awards: a silver medal in Toulon in 1873, in Avignon in 1876 and 1877, and in Marseille in 1879 and 1886. Most of his work consists of landscapes and views of the Provençal coastline. Works in public collections Cannes, Musée de la Castre: Provençal Landscape. Marseille: Musée Grobet-Labadié: Landscape. Musée des beaux-arts: Environs de Gréoux. Toulon, Musée d'art de Toulon: Provençal Landscape.