Luminous Barbizon Landscape Circa 1840, Figure in a Forest Glade, Winter Light, French Charles Lenglet B. 1771 Oil on Canvas

19th century

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Description

The most seasonal of our paintings, depicting perfectly the strange fleeting brightness of a short day. The brooding landscape all but allows us to get a sense of the damp fresh air, and to anticipate rising mist. Light and obscurity are perfectly balanced.

On a late autumn day, a peasant woman is gathering wood in a forest glade. The setting is possibly the forest of Barbizon. In the village of the same name, spearheaded by Millet and Rousseau, painters whose key interest was landscape, and the depiction of country life had created a created an artist's colony.

This work presented here, painted circa 1840, is by the artist Charles Antoine Amand Lenglet (born 1771 in Levergies).

Having spent his youth in Saint Quentin in the North of France, Lenglet came to Paris to become an engraver, but had a remarkable career as a jeweller. He would sell his thriving business to paint and sculpt full time.

His work was first shown at the Salon des Artistes Français en 1846.

Measuring 38 x 55 cm, our painting is signed at the lower right. A tear in the canvas in trunks of the trees has been repaired. The overall size in a simple frame from circa 1900 is 43 x 60 cm. Marks left by an older frame around the edges are faintly visible.

Physical Dimensions

Height

38cm (14.96")

Width

55cm (21.65")

Depth

1cm (0.39")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1850s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA666959

Dealers Notes

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Description

The most seasonal of our paintings, depicting perfectly the strange fleeting brightness of a short day.

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The brooding landscape all but allows us to get a sense of the damp fresh air, and to anticipate rising mist.

Skippings Fine Arts

Light and obscurity are perfectly balanced.

fig 1. Luminous Barbizon landscape circa 1840, Figure in a forest glade, winter light, French Charles Lenglet b. 1771 oil on canvas — fig 1. Luminous Barbizon Landscape Circa 1840, Figure in a Forest Glade, Winter Light, French Charles Lenglet B. 1771 Oil on Canvas

On a late autumn day, a peasant woman is gathering wood in a forest glade. The setting is possibly the forest of Barbizon. In the village of the same name, spearheaded by Millet and Rousseau, painters whose key interest was landscape, and the depiction of country life had created a created an artist's colony.

fig 2. Luminous Barbizon landscape circa 1840, Figure in a forest glade, winter light, French Charles Lenglet b. 1771 oil on canvas — fig 2. Luminous Barbizon Landscape Circa 1840, Figure in a Forest Glade, Winter Light, French Charles Lenglet B. 1771 Oil on Canvas

This work presented here, painted circa 1840, is by the artist Charles Antoine Amand Lenglet (born 1771 in Levergies).

Having spent his youth in Saint Quentin in the North of France, Lenglet came to Paris to become an engraver, but had a remarkable career as a jeweller. He would sell his thriving business to paint and sculpt full time.

fig 3. Luminous Barbizon landscape circa 1840, Figure in a forest glade, winter light, French Charles Lenglet b. 1771 oil on canvas — fig 3. Luminous Barbizon Landscape Circa 1840, Figure in a Forest Glade, Winter Light, French Charles Lenglet B. 1771 Oil on Canvas

His work was first shown at the Salon des Artistes Français en 1846.

Measuring 38 x 55 cm, our painting is signed at the lower right. A tear in the canvas in trunks of the trees has been repaired. The overall size in a simple frame from circa 1900 is 43 x 60 cm. Marks left by an older frame around the edges are faintly visible.