Léon Richet, River Landscape, Fontainebleau 17th very few remain in circulation

very few remain in circulation

a slight smile

She’s resting one knee on a chair and there’s a table with an empty glass to her right

While three trees embrace like kindred spirits

With eyes that speak of a tender heart

Léon Richet, River Landscape, Fontainebleau 17th very few remain in circulationThis late 19th century oil on canvas by Lon Richet (1843 1907) captures a quiet stretch of water in the Forest of Fontainebleau a place the artist knew with intimate devotion. It belongs to the mature phase of his career, when his palette softened and his atmospheres settled into a gentle inwardness characteristic of the later Barbizon School. A shallow river glides through the centre, its surface reflecting the faint warmth of a distant, half veiled