Landscape, oil on canvas by Auguste Hiolle

A view of what is probably the Seine river. Bright and calm scene. Signed lower right. Stamp on the back reading “Sennelier, 3 quai voltaire à Paris, depuis 1887”, a shop regarded as the temple of fine art, opposite the Louvre. The greatest artists of the time came here to stock up on supplies. This is a mark of the quality of the raw materials and puts this little-known artist in a special light.

Size: H 33 cm x W 41 cm – H 46.5 cm x W 54.5 cm

Paris, late 19th – early 20th century.

Lit: Auguste Hiolle appears to have been born on 15 July 1866 in Anticoli Corrado, Italy, and died in 1917. He was a genre painter and a member of the Société des artistes français from 1895 onwards. He came from a family of artists, including the sculptors Ernest-Eugène (1834–1886) and Maximilien-Louis (1843–1938).