Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner

This work is in excellent condition. The canvas is unlined. The surface is richly textured and the impasto is well preserved. There is some extremely fine and stable craquelure in the lower left quadrant. Under UV light, there are a few strokes of inpainting in the red flowers along the right edge and along the center of the red edge. There is a small area of inpainting at the center of the bottom edge and a few pindot strokes of inpainting in the flowers at center left and in the trees in the upper center of left edge.
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Gustave Cariot was a member of the Société des artistes indépendants, with whom his paintings were exhibited in the early years of the twentieth century. It was in this context that his pictures would catch the eye of two of the most important collectors of the time, Serguei Dimitrievitch and Armand Cabrol. He was greatly influenced by Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet; however, in contrast to Monet’s quick, flickering brushstrokes, his representations of landscapes were highly structured.