Les Huîtres 1800s painting A south of France landscape

A south of France landscape

The canvas is smooth with a uniform rendering and this portrait of a bourgeois in austere dress creates a dramatic effect against the light colorful background

with a smoother finish on the white areas of the bust

visible on the back of the painting

Les Huîtres 1800s painting A south of France landscape20th century French School oil on canvas signed Pierre Bompard (1890 1962). The work has texture to the touch. A rare modern school painting with brisk brushstrokes of different volumes. The technique is successful in its working of shadows and reflections, with the luminosity diffusing a perfectly calibrated veil of light to exhibit the complexity of the seafood. Certain shapes and perspectives flirt with cubism, like this table at impossible angles.