"Brazilian Landscape"
A village view painted by Gaston RIT, French landscape painter, born in 1882 and died in 1943. He went to Brazil to paint the light and luxuriance of the landscapes. Here, it could be a colonial town, built during the conquest of gold, nestled in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro. Back in France, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants from 1931 to 1934 and appears in its Catalogue Raisonné. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, framed in a gilded frame. On the back, on the stretcher, it is noted "Brazil 1924" With frame 41 x 32. Without frame 33 x 24