Le Cirque french portrait The landscape respects the codes

The landscape respects the codes of the movement of the landscape painters of Barbizon with its striking chiaroscuro and the glorification of trees as majestic giants

he devoted himself fully to his art

20th-century French School oil painting on carton board

The lightness of this work

Le Cirque french portrait The landscape respects the codes20th century Belgian school oil painting on wood signed Pol Franois Mathieu (1895 1979) and dated '44 lower right. The work has a little texture to the touch. A rare Impressionist subject features a figure near a traveling circus installation with the red caravan parked under a tree in front of a blue tent with a multicolored canopy. The brushstrokes are rapid, visible, and expansive. The emotionally charged technique and robust colors combined with