Raymond Jean Verdun (French, 1873-1954), Fin de journée au bois de Lupin

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Oil on canvas, 1909, signed at lower right, presented in the original gilt frame.

Stretcher size 64 1/4 x 52 in.; Frame dimensions 66 x 79 in.

Being sold to benefit the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum Permanent Collection care and conservation

Exhibited:
Paris, Société des Artistes Français, 1909, no. 1785

Born in Nogent-le-Rotrou in 1873, Raymond Jean Verdun studied under Henri Harpignies and worked in the Barbizon tradition. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, where the painting offered here received an Honorable Mention in 1909. Marked by a strong sense of romantic atmosphere, the composition captures the soft light of a setting sun, with slender trees in the foreground framing broad bands of earth, water, and sky. Verdun’s balanced arrangement of horizontal and vertical forms reflects the quiet naturalism associated with the late Barbizon school.

Some chipping to frame; canvas is in need of reinforcing on stretcher and in frame; light surface grime; minor stable craquelure.