Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil on Board. Depicts a quaint two story cottage next to a lake with mountains in the distance. Signed "Lejeune" bottom left.  Framed.

Overall: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. 

Sight: 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. 

#3586 . 

Impressionism was a 19th Century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Although that is a broad number of characteristics, it is usually further delineated as originating with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, “Impression, Soleil Levant” (“Impression, Sunrise”), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical 1874 review of the First Impressionist Exhibition published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature. By the early 1880s, Impressionist methods were affecting, at least superficially, the art of the French Salon, and by the turn of the century numerous artists from around the world were influenced by the original Impressionists, with some like the Americans Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase considered just as consequential. Post-Impressionism developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism, although both terms are used to describe works into the 21st Century that adhere to the original ideals and techniques. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color, with a broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content that encompasses numerous genres and subgenres like Les Nabis, Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, the Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, to name just a few. Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat (only one of whom lived past their 30s) are considered the fathers of Post-Impressionism and pivotal to modern art throughout the Western world. By the early 1880s, Impressionist methods were affecting, at least superficially, the art of the Salon. The influence of the French Impressionists and their artistic descendants lasted long after most of them had died, with artists like J.D. Kirszenbaum, Maurice Boitel, and Rita Asfour borrowing Impressionist techniques throughout the 20th Century and beyond.

Tiny paint chips throughout. Frame commensurate with age.