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Nice painting with chickens in the barn was executed by good listed French landscape and animal painter Léon-Philibert Couturier (1823 Chalon-sur-Saone - 1901 Saint-Quentin/Aisne). He studied by Charles and Jean-Claude Nicolas Couturier; since 1844 - at the Fine art Academy in Paris by Francois Edouard Picot. Portraits, genre, since 1853 - country life and animalistic paintings. worked as illustrator by different magazines and news papers.

Works:CHALON-SUR-SAONE, MBA: u.a. Le rat retiré du monde, 1863; Scène de basse-cour, 1876; Paysan allumant sa pipe; Le séchage du linge; Pierrette et Pierrot; La pourvoyeuse; Selbst-Portr., 1895. DIJON, MBA: Coq et poules. LOUVIERS, Mus. mun. MACON, Mus. MONTPELLIER, Mus. Fabre. MÜNCHEN, BSGS. NIZZA, MBA Jules Chéret. PERIGEUX, Mus. du Périgord. PROVINS/Seine-et-Marne, Mus. REIMS, MBA. SAINT-QUENTIN, Mus.: Vieille femme; Selbst-Portr. TOURNUS/Saône-et-Loire, Mus. Greuze: Scène villageoise

Exhibitions: Paris: 1845-81 SAfr; 1855 WA (Med. 3. cl.).

Literature : "AKL" by Saur; Benezit Lexicon; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on wood. Original gilt  frame of 19th century.

Measurements: unframed w 9 7/8" x h 8 5/8 " (25,2 x 23 cm), framed w 16 " x h 14 5/8" (40,5 x 37 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.