Rest on the outskirts of Auvers-sur-Oise,  1892

Oil on canvas

Signed and dated, lower right

Dimensions: 46 x 55 cm

With frame: 71 x 78 cm 

Frédéric Samuel Cordey evolves with the Impressionists, he presents four paintings with the group for the fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1877.

Student of Isodor Pils and Gustave Boulanger at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he is part of the group (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley) which rebels against academic education to follow the path of Impressionism . 

The artist participated in the Salon d'Automne in 1903. He rarely exhibited and art critics were laudatory about him. A retrospective exhibition took place at the Choiseul gallery in Paris in 1913. His fortune allowed him to work according to his own aspirations without depending on criticism and the help of merchants.

Appreciated by Gustave Caillebotte and particularly linked to Auguste Renoir, it   is featured in several paintings by the artist, including the “Bal du moulin de la galette”. An attentive landscaper, he enjoys depicting the surrounding nature; If the Auxerre countryside is one of the painter's favorite places, he stays not far from Camille Pissarro in Neuville-sur-Oise as well as in Eragny-sur-Oise.

For this painting, the artist depicts a rural landscape whose encounter between man and nature brings out the calm and tranquility of an afternoon in the countryside. The scene is quintessentially picturesque; the church of Auvers-sur-Oise, which stands out against the backdrop of the landscape, was made famous by the eponymous painting by Van Gogh which precedes Cordey's by two years.

In this 1892 painting, the painter stands out from Renoir's Impressionism. Landscape of beautiful free landscape school of the XIX th century, it vibrates the color by juxtaposing hatched keys.