"LAYRAC" par Jean de la FONTINELLE,Tarn et Garonne vers 1950

Oil on canvas in very good condition......46/55 cm......Signed lower right......Exhibition label on the back......Painted wooden frame , vintage, 65/72 cm Jean de la FONTINELLE (1900-1974) Landscape Painter, Animal, Illustrator ...... Son of a painter, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris. ...Painted animals at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, at the Edinburgh Zoo......Travel to New Caledonia in 1968/69 and also drew and painted at stopovers in Ceylon, Singapore, Tahiti..... .Exhibited at the Salon of French Artists from 1925 to 1972