Barbizon School, Louis- Henri Saintin (1846, 1899)

Astonishing oil on panel representing a village entrance by the famous painter Louis-Henri Saintain. The work is signed lower right and dated 1886. Piece presented in a quality frame in wood and gilded stucco. with foliage decorations. Henri Saintin is a painter of genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes. The forests around Paris and Brittany were the privileged sites of his quest for the fleeting moment. Landscape painter, Sensitive to the uncertainties of light, Henri Saintin always used the landscape as a pretext to study the subtle climatic variations or atmospheric changes due to the passage of hours and seasons. Auxerre Museum, Bonnat Museum in Bayonne, Fine Arts Museum in Chambéry, Fine Arts and Archeology Museum in Besançon, Fine Arts Museum in Rennes, Jacobins Museum in Morlaix, Fabre Museum in Montpellier