An absolutely beautiful unsigned antique oil on canvas, sourced in France with original Swiss artist’s canvas stamps on the back (“FURRER, Montreux Fournitures Pour la Peinture”) dating it late 1800s to early 1900s. The composition shows tall trees along a sun dappled path with a tiny figure of a person seated on a bench in the middle ground, all rendered with sophisticated impressionist brushwork. The condition has some honest paint loss in the foreground that adds to the authentic, untouched antique romance of the piece. The kind of find that’s getting harder and harder to come by: real European provenance, working-artist quality, and that perfectly weathered surface.
