Au Pâturage

A 20th-century French School oil painting on cardboard signed by Adolphe Rey, also known as Adolphe Albert Rey (1863-1944). The work has texture to the touch.

A dynamic oil painting with animals grazing in the foreground and the red roofs of the farm and outbuildings illuminated against the warm sky. The painting has a highly textured quality, and the artist used a combination of brush and knife to create the work. 

About the artist:

Adolphe Albert Rey was a French post-impressionist painter born on April 8, 1863, in Châteauvilain, near Lyon. He passed away in the same region on August 27, 1944, in Bourgoin-Jallieu.

Like his friend and teacher, the painter Victor Charreton (1864-1936), Adolphe Albert Rey belongs to the generation of artists who dedicated themselves to impressionist landscapes, following in the footsteps of the genre's pioneers. Rey painted with quick brushstrokes, capturing places that resonated with him through the seasons, light, and colors.

He visited Murol several times, a small mountain town with 1,500 inhabitants located between the Puy de Sancy and the Puy de Dôme, where Impressionist painters gathered.

He exhibited in Paris and also at La Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts. In 2008, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at the Murol museum.

• Overall Size: 8.6" x 12.5" / 22.5cm x 32cm.
• Country: France. 
  
• Signed: Adolphe Rey (1863-1944).
• Date: Early 1900's.
• Condition: The corners of the carton are a bit worn, and the edges are chippy, with some missing paint. There are holes in the upper edge where the painting was once pinned or nailed to a wall. Overall good condition. 
  
• Materials: Oil on carton.
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