Jules Aviat, whose real name was Jules-Charles Mauperrin, was one of the finest french portrait and landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received academic training from 1867 to 1870, with Ernest Hébert, director of the French Academy in Rome, as his teacher. Back in France, Jules Aviat worked with some of the leading figures of the day, including Carolus-Duran and Léon Bonnat. Along with his friends Hébert, Puvis de Chavannes and Bonnat, Aviat helped decorate the Pantheon in Paris. Works by Aviat are rare on the market today. This fine summer landscape reflects Jules Aviat's incredible talent for capturing instant, subtle impression. The oblique gaze and soft summer light places this landscape far from the conventional depictions of the period. The painting is on its original board, in very good condition. It is set in a handsome frame of patinated wood.