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Nicolas Victor FonvilleLandscape With Cottage, Lake
Figures, 19th-Century Oil Painting1837
1837
$2,467.18
£1,800
€2,105.43
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About the Item
This finely balanced early 19th-century landscape painting by French painter, Nicolas Victor Fonville (1805-1856), depicts a rural cottage set gently within a wooded clearing, its thatched roof emerging from a copse of trees beside a winding path. Beyond, the land opens toward water and distant buildings, with low mountains rising softly on the horizon. It’s a composition, exquisite in nature, that requires deeper sustained looking.
Every element here is individually studied - the cottage settled into the land rather than imposed upon it; the foreground boulders carefully weighted and articulated; the figures quietly present, scaled to their surroundings.
The foreground shadows are carefully constructed to anchor the scene without heaviness, while the trees form a natural architecture that frames the landscape beyond. The clouds are particularly masterful, layered and structurally sound, guiding light and atmosphere without resorting to Romantic drama. The entire surface rewards close inspection, almost in the manner of a miniature, where nothing is incidental.
This painting speaks of an artist committed to plein air not for the pursuit of fleeting effects, but for understanding. Fonville appears to examine nature as one might handle an object - observing its complexity with patience. The result is not idealised, but truthful.
Nicolas Victor Fonville was a pioneering figure in early 19th-century French landscape painting and an influential teacher in Lyon. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon under Antoine Duclaux and Augustin Thiérriat, he was an early advocate of outdoor study and founded one of the first independent landscape schools devoted to plein air practice. His influence extended to a generation of painters working in the countryside around Lyon and the Bugey region.
Signed/dated in the lower right and held in a later gilt frame.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 30” x 23” / 76cm x 59cm
Year of creation: 1837
Provenance: Private collection, France.
Artist’s auction maximum: £9,167 for ‘Vue du Château de Grignan (1854)’, Oil on canvas, Aguttes, Paris, France, 25 March 2022 (lot 58).
Our reference: BRV2244
- Creator:Nicolas Victor Fonville (1805 - 1856, French)
- Creation Year:1837
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:Cleaned. Canvas relined. Later stretcher. Fine craquelure throughout. The paint layer is stable. Frame in excellent condition.
- Gallery Location:Cheltenham, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2328217517872
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