"Very Beautiful Pair Of Lively Countryside Landscapes With River 19th Framed Signed E. Godchaux Ht"
Rare in this beautiful original condition in its frames this very beautiful pair of generous elongated format (marine) and beautiful size portraits in very beautiful molded frames sculpted and stuccoed and gilded with gold leaf. These two beautiful landscapes born to be together and since 1895 have never left each other represents one a river bank with a young fisherman in the foreground, in the background a village on a dike bordering the body of water in a soft light of a beautiful weather with a blue sky with the formation of evaporation clouds playing with the sunlight, the trees like all plant nature represented with vigor and force details in a harmony of green, the bank like the fort of the river bed detailed and flowery, abundant in a pretty low light an accomplished work quite of the time and well in the spirit of the painters of the Barbison School at the time at which they were made; his brother no less interesting and which takes up all the codes that I will not list also represents a countryside landscape on the edge of a river where in a luminous path of a clear nature a woman walks coming towards us, a basket in her arm hills appear on the horizon of this beautiful summer afternoon with evaporating clouds in a soft light of good weather ... In short these two very decorative paintings are pleasant of a beautiful known signature Emile Godchaux (1860-1926) both signed lower left