Distant mountain landscape with travelers and a village on the river bank was created in 1837 by the famous French architecture, landscape and historical painter Charles Caines Renoux, born 1795 in Paris (died there in 1846). Motives for his landscape paintings drawn by the artist from his travels in Pyrenees and Apennines,South Tirol, Rhine Valley and others. Works of the artist are located in many European museums and palaces: in Paris, Amiens, Leipzig, Nantes, Orleans, Versailles.

Literature: Renoux is listed in Art Lexicons by Benezit, Thieme-Becker, Nagler.

Inscription: signed and dated lower right "Renoux 1837"

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy Salon gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 33 1/2" x h 25 2/3" (85 x 65 cm), framed w 43 1/4" x h 34 1/4" (110 x 87 cm)

Condition: in very good condition