Marguerite Liouville, Known As Margalide, 1879-1960. Idealized View Of The Pyrenees. 200 X 100 Cm

Marguerite LIOUVILLE known as Margalide 1879-1960. Idealized view of the Pyrenees, from the Basque Country to the Landes. Oil on panel 200 x 100cm Three sculpted trees serving as a frame (chestnut, oak and pine with resin cups) Painting Oil on panel 100 cmx200 cm Exceptional and unique framing: 3 sculpted trees serving as a frame (chestnut, oak and pine with resin cups) Margalide wife of Louis LEBONDIDIER Pyreneist, founder curator of the Pyrenean Museum of Lourdes. Provenance from a house in Lourdes whose grandfather was friends with Margalide In 1921, the Pyrenean Museum was created under the leadership of Louis and Margalide Le Bondidier. Passionate about the Pyrenees, they gathered collections on the history and mountain cultures from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Their motto is to create a regional museum of the entire French and Spanish Pyrenees chain where "nothing Pyrenean should be foreign to us."