Rural Evening View With Figures And Cattle

Rural Evening View With Figures And CattleA beautiful little rural scene in the manner of Salon exhibited Parisian painter, Francois Charles Cachoud (1866 1943). In the foreground, two cows are grazing by a pond, adjacent to a farm cottage. While in the background, a woman stands on a small bridge as she looks across to the last of the evenings sun. Cachoud was born in the Savoie region of France and attended the prestigious cole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Hes predominantly known for his

He’s particularly well known for his interior scenes and tended to paint sunlit rooms with female occupants

We particularly love the nonchalant posture of the female as she leans in a doorway

which is likely to be the original

craquelure throughout and scuffing around the periphery

Size including frames

trees and distant cottages

Was this gentleman in love with Nell and was it reciprocal

His talent for painting emerged at the age of 16 following a difficult period of his childhood

It feels like they’ve known each other for many years and have shared plenty of stories

A fine early 20th-century Danish genre scene depicting an elderly couple examining a haul of fresh eggs

so there are ancient links with Danish royalty

adjacent to a farm cottage