Levigne Theodore 1848 1912 Landscape

Animated landscape by Theodore LevigneOil on panel signed lower leftThéodore Levigne: November 17, 1848 in Noirétable - November 11, 1912 in Lyon. French painter of the 19th and 20th centuries. School of Lyon.Théodore Levigne is a curious and observant boy. He is very early attracted to painting and drawing. He enters the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon at the age of twelve. He receives prizes from his first year. He was the student of Gérôme one of the most famous artists of his time and of Alexandre Cabanel great academic painter. His travels to Marseille, Sicily, Italy allow him to enrich his experience. He excels in all pictorial genres: landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, still lifes, historical and military representations