Oil on panel

Signed lower right

Dimensions: 56 x 45.5 cm

With frame: 86 x 76 cm  

 
Although Charles Olivier De Penne first practiced history painting, he is mainly recognized and appreciated for his hunting scenes and animal representations. It is attached to the school of Barbizon.  

This table illustrates our point: the dogs at a standstill are seized in action, we can feel the excitement of the animals tracing a game. The surrounding vegetation is magnified by the free touch and the colorful palette of the painter.
 

The painter is a pupil of Léon Cogniet at the School of Fine Art in Paris and of Charles Jacques, painter and engraver of the Barbizon school. Appreciated by critics, it has won several awards. He won a second Grand Prix de Rome. De Penne began at the Salon of 1857 and exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.