LEPRINCE, Auguste-Xavier
(b. 1799, Paris, d. 1826, Nice)

A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane

c. 1823
Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 33 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This scene may be an early depiction of the Forest of Fontainebleau. While the landscape retains all the freshness of a plein-air study, the figures are stock characters from Leprince’s repertory.




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