Richet Leon Table XIXè Barbizon School French Landscape Painting XIXè Oil On Canvas Signed

RICHET Léon (1847/1907)

The fisherman in his boat on the pond.

Oil on canvas signed lower right.

51 cm x 74,5 cm.

Certificate of authenticity.

Museums: Nice, Reims.

Léon RICHET (1847/1907) Painter of genre scenes, animated landscapes, landscapes, water landscapes, still lifes, pastellist. Léon RICHET was a pupil of Ambroise Détrez at the Academy of Valenciennes, then of Narcisse Diaz, of Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger in Paris. Young, Léon Richet followed for a while the drawing and painting courses taught at the Academic Schools of Valenciennes by Mr. Ambroise Détrez, a former pupil of Léon Cogniet, who succeeded Julien Sotier. In 1879 he was appointed professor at the Lycée de Valenciennes.In Paris, he befriended the Valenciennes painter Tinturier and became a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and especially the disciple Diaz de la Pena with whom he sometimes collaborated (we meet paintings bearing their two signatures), he was daring like him in his enameled way of treating the reflections of light in the water and the effects of the sun in the clouds.Léon Richet took part in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1869. He obtained an honorable mention in 1885, a second medal in 1888, a second class medal in 1901, therefore he was exempt from competition and proposed for the cross of the Legion of Honor. Richet was above all an assiduous painter of the Fontainebleau forest. His much admired painting “a road in the forest of Fontainebleau” draws the public's attention to him. He exhibited at salons organized by the Société des Artistes Français from 1880 to 1906 Leon Richet is one of the landscape painters best representing the Barbizon School, sometimes with a particularly innovative, even lyrical, way in the treatment of light from the sky and reflections in water . He also painted in Normandy, Picardy and Bourbonnais.