Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People craquelure throughout

craquelure throughout

The buildings are little more than a silhouette with the ones in the foreground appearing more prominent through the use of impasto

While a small dog

Generally very good

A skilfully rendered oil painting depicting an older gentleman tuning a violin by Austrian artist

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People craquelure throughoutAn atmospheric 19th century oil on canvas depicting a rural scene with chickens, cottages and a woman washing linens. A worn pathway winds between two buckled trees and leads onto open pasture where several chickens peck the earth. While, in the foreground, a woman dressed in a blue dress with a white apron is kneeling by a pond and washing laundry. Stylistically, the painting fits with the approach taken by the Barbizon school of artists who were