Theodore Claude Felix A Ligny (1798-1871) - Fontainebleau landscape

Paris, Grand Palais; Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts & New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corot, exhibition. cat., Paris 1996, p.266
During his stay in Rome from 1822 to 1827, d'Aligny worked closely with Corot, with his naturalist studies of the Campagna exerting a significant influence on the older artist. d'Aligny's groundbreaking conception of landscape as an organization of forms and mass formed the basis for much of the later development of the genre up to and including the work of Cézanne. In 1828 he became one of the first landscape painters to visit the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Fronia Wissman dates Homere et les bergeres to around 1840, which would make it an important source for Corot's treatment of the theme from 1845, particularly in the figurative grouping (Saint-Lô, Musée des Beaux-Arts). As Michael Pantazzi has noted, this seems to be the only conscious imitation of a contemporary in Corot's oeuvre, and it shows the esteem in which he held d'Aligny (see Paris; Ottawa & New York 1996, Work comes from its own large private collection, it is toned and clean, and can last for years, canvas size is 94 x 68 cm, expensive frame, which fits perfectly, pickup is basically a prerequisite, hence the costs about shipping, work will be packed professionally and sent, we can then be 100 percent sure it arrives, especially when it comes to prices, the photos are indicative, approx price, they also have a much smaller canvas size, just search on Google for approx prices, this size is rarely available. This work is datable ca. 1885. The frame has light paint damage along the edges, but of course can be restored and is not visible, the frame already costs more than a thousand euros, but then you also have a beautiful expensive painting that fits perfectly.