MIDY, Arthur (1877 Saint-Quentin - 1944 Le Faouët/ Département Morbihan)

Park of the Palace of Versailles in Autumn

Oil/wood pulp. Signed lower left with the addition Versailles, artist's stamp verso.

60.5 x 50 cm. Framed : 76 x 65 cm (polychrome frame).

Figurative fountain covered with autumn leaves between colorful trees under a grey sky. Slight traces of age.

French painter, studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris, here a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant, 1897-1928 participated in the exhibitions of the "Salon des artistes francais", 1905 first stay in Le Faouët/Département Morbihan, 1914 honored with a silver medal from the city of Paris, active in Paris and Le Faouët.

Literature : Bénézit.