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Description: | Signed: yes Description: At first glance, this tranquil landscape, with its soft light and delicate, impressionistic trees and figures, appears to be a work from the late 'silvery' phase of Camille Corot's career. Trouillebert was one of Corot's pupils, and because of his fidelity to the master, unscrupulous dealers were not above forging Corot's signature on his paintings to increase their profits. Trouillebert was so angered by this practice that in 1883 he sued all parties involved with a work of his that had been falsely signed as a Corot. The particularly large signature on this painting may have been a result of that trial and Trouillebert's reluctance to allow his work to be mistaken for Corot's. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Trouillebert, Paul Désiré (French painter, 1829-1900) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9183... | Go to resource |
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