Augustin Bader - View Of The Charmey Valley In Switzerland

Augustin BADER (active in the years between 1830 and 1860) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (51.5 x 59.5 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "Bader" Old label on the back "Par Augustin Bader / à Friborg (Switzerland) » Augustin Bader is presented as a painter from Fribourg. Pupil of the romantic painter Charles-Caïus Renoux, he was born in Tours and went to work in Switzerland where he painted landscapes in the romantic style. Augustin Bader exhibited at the Paris Salon between the 1830s and 1860s Swiss landscapes mainly in the canton of Friborg (View of the Gotteron valley, View of the Tusy bridge, View of the Charmey valley, Chillon castle on Lake Geneva, Cerniat ravine, Black Lake). In our painting is represented a valley, a stream, chalets and a mountain in the background. It could be a view of the Charmey valley in the canton of Fribourg.