Sunday, February 5, 2012

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe - Changeable Weather [1860-70]


Gustave Leonard de Jonghe (Kortrijk, 1829 - Antwerp, 1893) was a Belgian painter. Although he started his career painting historical and sacred subject matter, he is famous for his genre paintings with bourgeois themes and rich materials. In 1855, he became in the direct successor of the renowned Belgian painter, Alfred Stevens, in Paris.

[Oil on panel, 70 x 51 cm]

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