PAIR OF PAINTING UNDER GLASS REPRESENTING COUNTRY LANDSCAPES IN THE STYLE OF VAN DEN BERGHE

A pair of oval-shaped fixtures under glass depicting country landscapes by a river. One of them shows, on the left, four houses separated by a path. In the foreground, a woman and a little girl, seen from behind, are heading towards the village. In the second, an old man and a child walk up the path to a house on the edge of a forest. Dutch painting enjoyed great success in France around mid-century, thanks in particular to the "rediscovery" of Vermeer by art critic Théophile Thoré-Burger, whose work he praised in his Salons. This led to the emergence of a multitude of realistic landscapes and genre scenes, inspired by Dutch "small masters" such as Ruysdael, Jan Steen and van den Berghe, with figures in panoramic landscapes or domestic interiors. Our two glass mountings have retained their original gilded wood frames, carved with garlands of roses, oves and darts. Some missing wood. Louis-Philippe period, Circa: 1840 Dim: W:58cm, D:2cm, H:50cm.