Antique French Oil Painting Griffon
Oil on canvas, Nymphs in a Woodland Landscape, signed G. (Gabriel) Griffon, France, c.1880
Oil on canvas, Nymphs in a Woodland Landscape, signed G. (Gabriel) Griffon, France, c.1880
Oil on canvas, Nymphs in a Woodland Landscape, signed G. (Gabriel) Griffon, France, c.1880
Oil on canvas, Nymphs in a Woodland Landscape, signed G. (Gabriel) Griffon, France, c.1880

Oil on canvas, Nymphs in a Woodland Landscape, signed G. (Gabriel) Griffon, France, c.1880

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Gabriel Griffon (1866-1936) was born in Toulouse, a town in Southwest France. He is best known for allegorical and genre paintings; his garden scenes and his ‘fêtes galantes’ remind one of the 18th century works of Watteau, but interpreted in a post impressionist, fluid and ethereal manner. His palette is clear and fresh and his brushwork is subtle yet assured. Today, his work is in collections in Paris, London, New York, Boston and Geneva. 
(Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la Peinture)
 
“Griffon enjoyed placing figures in landscapes and reducing the composition to a symphony of harmonious brightly coloured brush strokes” (Gerald Schurr’s book, Lesser Masters).
 
Image: 24” x 20”
Frame: 31” x 27”