Nicolas Victor Fonville, Landscape With Cottage, Lake & Figures Italy to St Buryan on the

to St Buryan on the Cornish coast

for whom he produced a number of illustrations

000 for ‘The Floating Harbour

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 16” x 22” / 41cm x 56cmYear of creation: 1898Provenance: Private collection

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

Nicolas Victor Fonville, Landscape With Cottage, Lake & Figures Italy to St Buryan on theThis 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