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Eugene Battaille (1817-1880) Oil Painting.
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Eugene Battaille (1817-1880) Oil Painting.

19th century
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EUGENE BATTAILLE ( 1817 - 1880 )

A beautiful signed and dated 1863 oil on board by Eugene Battaille depicting figures in the village of Vardes which is to the east of Rouen. The work is signed, titled snd dated lower right and beautifully painted. He was a pupil of Leon Cogniet and his work is held in numerous museums.

Title: “Figures at Vardes near Rouen”

Signature: Signed lower right & dated 1863 and titled

Medium: Oil on board

Provenance: Private french collection

Size: c. 9.5 x 12 inches unframed

Condition: Dirt in sky otherwise good

Born 18 April 1817, in Granville (Manche).

Painter. Religious subjects, portraits, scenes with figures.

Studied under Cogniet and worked first in Paris then in Versailles. Exhibited on a regular basis at the Paris Salon between 1843 and 1875. Principally remembered as a portrait artist in the classical mould, who was nevertheless given to a touch of romanticism in his scenes of ladies in crinolines.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

St-Lô: Pink Marble Steps, Versailles

Toul: General Baron de Biequilly

Versailles: Antoine Félix de Monti, Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies; Claude-Guillaume Lambert, Baron of Chamerolles and Inspector-General of Finance; Portrait of Marie-Anne Brune; Portrait of Marshall Ney

Auction Records

Versailles, 12 Dec 1981: Festivities on the Grand Canal in Versailles (1849, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 42¼ ins/50 × 107 cm) FRF 10,000

Physical Dimensions
Height
24.1cm (9.49")
Width
30.5cm (12.01")
Depth
7cm (2.76")
Declaration

Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this French Rural Landscape Painting to the 1860s.

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EUGENE BATTAILLE ( 1817 - 1880 )
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A beautiful signed and dated 1863 oil on board by Eugene Battaille depicting figures in the village of Vardes which is to the east of Rouen.
Country Homes Antiques Stirling

The work is signed, titled snd dated lower right and beautifully painted. He was a pupil of Leon Cogniet and his work is held in numerous museums.

fig 1. A 19th-century oil painting depicting a French rural village landscape with figures, a pack horse, and stone farm buildings under a pale blue sky.
fig 1. Eugene Battaille (1817-1880) Oil Painting.

Title: “Figures at Vardes near Rouen”

Signature: Signed lower right & dated 1863 and titled

Medium: Oil on board

Provenance: Private french collection

Size: c. 9.5 x 12 inches unframed

Condition: Dirt in sky otherwise good

fig 2. A 19th-century oil painting depicting a French rural village landscape with figures, a pack horse, and stone farm buildings under a pale blue sky.
fig 2. Eugene Battaille (1817-1880) Oil Painting.

Born 18 April 1817, in Granville (Manche).

Painter. Religious subjects, portraits, scenes with figures.

Studied under Cogniet and worked first in Paris then in Versailles. Exhibited on a regular basis at the Paris Salon between 1843 and 1875. Principally remembered as a portrait artist in the classical mould, who was nevertheless given to a touch of romanticism in his scenes of ladies in crinolines.

fig 3. A 19th-century oil painting depicting a French rural village landscape with figures, a pack horse, and stone farm buildings under a pale blue sky.
fig 3. Eugene Battaille (1817-1880) Oil Painting.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

St-Lô: Pink Marble Steps, Versailles

Toul: General Baron de Biequilly

Versailles: Antoine Félix de Monti, Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies; Claude-Guillaume Lambert, Baron of Chamerolles and Inspector-General of Finance; Portrait of Marie-Anne Brune; Portrait of Marshall Ney

Auction Records

Versailles, 12 Dec 1981: Festivities on the Grand Canal in Versailles (1849, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 42¼ ins/50 × 107 cm) FRF 10,000

Height
24.1cm (9.49")
Width
30.5cm (12.01")
Depth
7cm (2.76")
Date of Manufacture

Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this French Rural Landscape Painting to the 1860s.

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Nineteenth-century French pastoral paintings typically depict rural working life, regional architecture, and natural landscapes. Artists focused on observational realism, natural lighting, and scenes of agrarian daily life, reflecting the transition towards plein air painting.

Artists during this period commonly used oil paint composed of ground mineral pigments bound with linseed or walnut oil, applied to stretched linen canvas or wooden panels, and protected with natural resin varnish.

Authentic period paintings show natural age craquelure across the paint surface, historic stretcher or panel construction, artist signatures, and characteristic surface oxidisation on the varnish layer over time.

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