FRENCH PAINTING BY P. DUMONT - REF No. 2035

Product Details

Canvas: H: 28.34 in / 72 cm ; W: 38.58 in / 98 cm

Framed: H: 42.51 in /108 cm ; W: 52.95 in / 134.5 cm

P. Dumont Born: (Born 1884, Paris, France - Died 1936).

“Woodland Scene with Figures and Horses”

Medium: Oil on canvas

Signed: Lower left, P. Dumont.

Circa 1910

French

A finely rendered autumnal woodland landscape depicting two figures and a horse-drawn cart on a winding country path, set within an elaborately carved giltwood frame. The soft, diffused light filtering through the trees captures the atmosphere of a calm rural day, with Dumont’s characteristic attention to natural detail and tonal harmony. The artist’s handling of texture and colour evokes the serenity of 19th-century pastoral life.

Pierre Dumont:

Dumont is described as a French painter of landscapes and marine subjects, working in an impressionist-influenced style early on. He was active in the first decades of the 20th century, and though trained in a milieu influenced by the Impressionists, his career overlaps with the modernist turn in French art. His works include views of buildings, the Seine / Normandy landscapes and marine settings.