Our landscape painting executed by famous French artist Paul Desiré Trouillebert and is very similar to the famous Trouillebert´s painting " Bank of the Loire Near Chouze" in the Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg. For comparison see its image on following link from Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Trouillebert#/media/File:Trouillebert,_Paul_Desire_-_Bank_of_the_Loire_Near_Chouze.jpg

Trouillebert was one of most famous Barbison School painters in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. He was born in Paris in 1829 and died here in 1900. Trouillebert is considered a portrait, and a genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hébert (1817 -1908) and Charles-François Jalabert (1819 -1901), and made his debut at the Salon of 1865, exhibiting a portrait. He produced many landscapes that are very close to the Corot´s late manner of painting. Also he was known for imitations of paintings of Corot. He lived primarily in Candes, where his house is now a museum. At the Paris Salon of 1869 Trouillebert exhibited "Au bois Rossignoletï ", which was a lyrical Fontainebleau landscape that received great critical acclaim.He was also interested in the orientalism and produced paintings of nudes. He painted a portrait of a half-nude young woman in an ancient Egyptian style of the Greco-Roman Dynasty. He called it Servante du harem (The Harem Servant Girl). In 1884, his painting of nudes, The Bathers was well received by the Paris Salon.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary" (in German), Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on cardboard, original luxuriousy gold-plated frame .

Measurements: unframed w 9 1/2" x h 11 1/3" (24 x 29 cm); framed w 16 1/8" x h 18 1/2 " (41 x 47 cm).

Condition: in very good original condition, no any paintlosses or inpaintings.