Alexandre Francia - Mountain Landscape With A Fisherman And His Dog

Alexandre Thomas FRANCIA
Calais, 1815 – Brussels, 1884
Mountain landscape with a river, a fisherman, and his dog
Oil on wood panel
20 x 28.5 cm (36.5 x 45.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “AFrancia”
Very beautiful 19th-century gilded wooden frame with a design of laurel leaves, palmettes, and scrollwork

Alexandre Francia was a traveling painter and landscape artist, a student of Louis Francia, his father. He exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon beginning in 1841, including views of Dieppe, Calais, Quimper, and Dunkirk, as well as views of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Venice. He also exhibited in London, Antwerp, and Brussels, where he settled.
Our painting is reminiscent of a “view of Loch Katrine in Scotland” that went on sale at Christie’s London in 2008 and bore the following inscription: “This watercolor, painted for me and sold to Mr. Camille Dognin; Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in Vienna in 1873./won, along with the other drawing, the/watercolor medal.”