"painting By Paul Albert Girard (1839-1920) Animated Landscape By The River. "
Exceptional painting representing an animated landscape of animals and peasants on the banks of a river, oil on original canvas with its chassis and frame.
 Signed at the bottom right. In perfect condition.
   Girard is a famous French painter of the 19th century who was raised by Jean Joseph BELLEL, François Édouard PiCOT and Hippolyte FLADRIN.
  Grand Prix of Rome in 1861 . Part of the movement of Orientalist painters and exhibited at the Salon of Fine Arts from 1859 to 1913.
many museums preserved from him works of landscapes and orientalists.
   
this painting is probably the piece of reception of the artist at the Salon of 1886