Les Époux modern showing fishermen on a wharf

showing fishermen on a wharf surrounding their small wooden boats

The main one is on the right vertical edge (4

the light is fragile but present and in perfect balance with the dark brown sepia shades of the background

struck by the midday sun

Size without the frame: 6

Les Époux modern showing fishermen on a wharfCan be paired with the other painting. Les poux who have been a historical pair. Portraits from the French School of the first half of the 19th century. Oil painting on canvas signed E. Bodier. Two works of academic style with a very nice finish. The colors are rigorous and the painter perfectly transposes the expressions of the models. The husband seems impatient and his wife looks more amused, perhaps appropriate. She wears a large traditional