"Evening Light in a Country Yard: A 19th Century Painting by Dupré"

(1811 Nantes - 1889 L'Isle-Adam) A country estate among trees in the evening light. The painting, executed in soft impasto, is by Dupré, whose body of work includes a significant number of such evening or nocturnal landscapes from the Forest of Fontainebleau and its surroundings. Dupré, one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School and a close friend of Théodore Rousseau, was one of the most influential French landscape painters of the 19th century; he was also one of the co-founders of the "Intimate Landscape" movement. Dupré's works can be found, among other places, in the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Oil on canvas. Signed. Dimensions: 43 cm x 59 cm. In a frame.