Léon Richet, River Landscape, Fontainebleau 17th His views are captured with

His views are captured with meticulous observation coupled with an acute understanding of the ever-changing effects upon nature

Overall size: 10½” x 20” / 26cm x 51cm

She’s resting one knee on a chair and there’s a table with an empty glass to her right

While three trees embrace like kindred spirits

From our viewpoint atop the cliffs

Léon Richet, River Landscape, Fontainebleau 17th His views are captured withThis late 19th century oil on canvas by Lon Richet (1843 1907) captures a quiet stretch of water in the Forest of Fontainebleau a place the artist knew with intimate devotion. It belongs to the mature phase of his career, when his palette softened and his atmospheres settled into a gentle inwardness characteristic of the later Barbizon School. A shallow river glides through the centre, its surface reflecting the faint warmth of a distant, half veiled