JEAN BAIN
French, 1883-1963

Evening Landscape

Oil on panel | signed J. Bain lower right | housed in a lovely early custom frame

12 3/8" H x 18" W x 1" D [frame]
9 7/8" H x 14 15/16" W [panel]

A brilliant golden hour scene by the French painter Jean Bain, this small oil on panel depicts a calm stream moving around a rocky hill before a green pasture where cattle rest by the water's edge. The sun has just disappeared beyond the rocky outcrop and the sky moves from brilliant burning yellow into darker oranges before being swallowed by the remaining blue of the evening skies. Sunlight hits the underside of the few scattered clouds, lighting them with a fire that scatters across the sky while the figures and features of the landscape are obscured by falling shadows of dusk. We love the frame almost as much as we love the painting with a rich polychromed finish and a gilt-and-teal stenciled border - a fabulous compliment to the scene and almost certainly original. Signed lower right.

Condition: Expertly conserved and installation ready. Under UV showing a few areas of inpainting around the extreme edges of the frame (where the frame rubs), spots here and there. Minor wear and abrasions to the polychromed frame.

ref. 501BDQ02O