La Pêche Oil on wood creating a textured and almost

creating a textured and almost palpable effect

4" / 50cm x 62

Vilmos Paksi (1967)

Despite its condition

without haste to better understand the subject before painting

La Pêche Oil on wood creating a textured and almost19th century oil painting on canvas, signed M. Murguet (?) in the lower right corner and dated 1887. A large scale, poetic landscape rendered with delicate brushwork and a masterful play of light across water and foliage. At the center of the scene, a woman in a wide brimmed hat sits beneath a tree with a fishing pole in hand. A white house with a red roof appears in the distance, its reflection shimmering in the water below. Dated to the 1880s, both