Children Behind The Rock - Pierre Louis Joseph De Coninck

Two children returning from fishing hiding behind a rock. Oil On Canvas XIXth Important and beautiful golden frame Signature lower right: Pierre Louis Joseph de Coninck, 1828 - 1910 Painter of history, scenes of genre. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1851. He studied under Léon Cogniet, and won the second prize in Rome in 1855. He took part in the Paris Salon from 1857 and was medalist in 1866 and 1868. Her religious scenes, genre subjects, and portraits of women are painted with a realism underlined by a firm drawing and a powerful polychrome.