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Lot description
André Giroux, French 1801-1879- A l'orée d'un bois; oil on panel, bears later label inscribed '2eme Vente / Vente du 25 Mars / 1904' verso, 59.7 x 85.4 cm. (unframed). (Import VAT charged on the hammer price). Provenance: A Private Collection of French Naturalist Painters. Note: Giroux attended the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). Although primarily based in Paris, Giroux spent much of his time working in Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome for historical landscape painting in 1825, and where he befriended a number of young landscape painters including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Edouard Bertin (1797-1871) and Léon Fleury (1804-1858). The present wooded scene vividly recalls a similar composition by Giroux which sold recently at J.P. Osenat Fontainebleau, 16 March 2025, lot 59 (€1,512).