" René VAUQUELIN (Elbeuf, 1854 -Dignes, 1941) - Work in the fields."
Oil on canvas signed at the bottom right.
Dimensions: 81 x 54 cm.
The painter captures in full action a peasant busy hoeing a plot of his field. The sloping terrain does not facilitate his work. He relaxes by smoking the pipe. Down below we see the village.
The scene is certainly located in the Moselle valley near Sierck-les-bains.
René Louis Vauquelin was Lequen's student.
He started at the Salon des artistes français in 1879 and exhibited regularly there