This large French oil on canvas (approximately 30 x 24 inches) captures the tranquil beauty of a riverside landscape. The soft greens of the banks and the pale reflections of the sky settle into the water, where a solitary figure rows quietly across the current. Signed in the lower right, the work has both scale and narrative charm, recalling the favored leisure scenes of French painters along the Seine and Marne.

Clues to its age are present throughout. The support is a coarse linen canvas, darkened naturally over time, rather than the cotton grounds that became standard only after the Second World War. The surface reveals fine craquelure, particularly in the sky and lighter passages, consistent with natural aging of early 20th-century oil paint.

Technique, too, places the painting in its era. The brushwork is broad yet measured, echoing Impressionist influence while retaining structure in the architecture and trees. In the water and reeds, the artist employed a wet-into-wet method — laying strokes quickly while the underlayer remained tacky — creating a diffused softness where reflections and grasses dissolve into one another. This approach, popular among provincial French landscapists in the interwar years, lends the painting its quiet atmosphere.

The palette of silvery greens and muted blues is distinctly of its time, when artists sought to capture not only a view but the mood of leisure and continuity in a changing France. It is both a decorative statement and a document of style, carrying forward the lyricism of Impressionism into a new century.

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