Oil on canvas, relined
France, 1831
Charles Caius Renoux (1795-1846) – French painter and lithograph
Signed and inscribed lower right ‘Renoux 1831’
In broad gold painted stucco frame
Dimensions: 78 x 100 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private collection, Austria
Very skillfully captured, picturesque mountain landscape in evening light; paintings by Charles Caius Renoux fetch up to more than €27,000 at international auctions

In fine brushwork the Paris-born French artist Charles Renoux Caius (1795-1846) has captured here a picturesque mountain landscape. The view of the beholder is drawn in full academic manner from a wooded hill along a path in a vast plain, behind which the background an impressive mountain range stretches over the image area. Full of atmosphere, the gray blue hills are bathed in the pink light of the evening sun. Staffage figures like that of a farmer on his way home enliven the foreground and middle ground. The skillful composition and the fine brushwork, with which Renoux the very successful captures the evening mood, show his great painting skill.

The painting is signed and dated lower right ‘Renoux 1831’. The canvas is relined. The painting shows overall fine craquelure and was newly varnished. Additionally there is a small area of retouching in the clouds upper right as well as slight framing traces. The overall condition is age-appropriate good. The frame shows occasional small material losses and slight signs of wear. The painting measures 78 x 100 cm. The framed dimensions are 96 x 119 cm. (fea)

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