19th-Century Danish School, Landscape With Rustic Cottage

19th-Century Danish School, Landscape With Rustic CottageThis charming 19th century oil on canvas depicts a run down rural cottage with a partially remaining thatch. It stands amid overgrown flora and feels lost in time. Can you imagine when the artist stumbled across this on a walk through the fields? Perhaps leaning in the doorway to explore the interior. Stylistically, its reminiscent of painters working in the circle of Gustav Vermehren (1863 1931). Housed within a handsome period frame with foliate

The painting appears to be housed within its original frame and it's signed illegibly in the lower right

A beautiful oil on canvas depicting a view in the French town of Châteauneuf-sur-Cher

The frame has age-related wear including some cracks to its plaster

Frame with a few marks and some age-related wear

The general atmosphere feels a little Roman and it sits alongside works by Caravaggio quite comfortably

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 20½” x 17½” / 52cm x 45cmYear of creation: c

Fontaine often explored the countryside around Stockholm

are looking elsewhere

His collars are turned down and his hair is styled with a side parting

Frame a little tatty

Minor paint losses towards the bottom

Signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a good later frame