Nicolas Victor Fonville, Landscape With Cottage, Lake & Figures Italy Susanna would’ve been 87 years

Susanna would’ve been 87 years old

to St Buryan on the Cornish coast

000 achieved for ‘Prince Charlie at Holyrood’ at an auction in 2006

1989 (lot 30)

Nicolas Victor Fonville, Landscape With Cottage, Lake & Figures Italy Susanna would’ve been 87 yearsThis finely balanced early 19th century landscape painting by French painter, Nicolas Victor Fonville (1805 1856), depicts a rural cottage set gently within a wooded clearing, its thatched roof emerging from a copse of trees beside a winding path. Beyond, the land opens toward water and distant buildings, with low mountains rising softly on the horizon. Its a composition, exquisite in nature, that requires deeper sustained looking. Every element here