François-Auguste Ravier (1814-1895) "Landscape in the gorges, near Crémieu". Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 31 x 37.5 cm Signature stamp in red (Lugt, L2132A). In a gilded wood frame with oval view. Size with frame: 44 x 47 cm. Expert's noteC. Boyer Thiollier : This landscape remains typical of the 1850s, when François-Auguste Ravier had not yet found his modern, synthetic style. The colored masses (still framed in black by the partially visible pencil) in the middle section hint at a rocky cliff covered in vegetation. At the foot of the rocks, a sun-splashed clearing spreads out in cadmium yellow, providing brightness and luminosity, with repeated gray touches to enliven the middle section. Note the pencil traces of the freehand oval that encircles the landscape, a specialty of the painter's. Provenance: Bears a label on the back "Hôtel Drouot salle 12, 29 XI (19)76, Étude Couturier et Nicolay, Lorenceau & Brame". (3190 Francs).