La Piste landscape painting and museum manager Richard Bergh

and museum manager Richard Bergh (1858-1919)

present the viewer with a paradoxical scene

this small scale work has a lot of character

that has benefitted from the last 100 years of age by turning a darker patina and picking up more rustic tones

marouflaged onto hard carton

La Piste landscape painting and museum manager Richard Bergh19th century French oil painting of a dog mid chase. Signed in the lower left hand corner, but illegible. A painting that displays the artist's talent for light and a realistic rendering, capturing a moment in time that is both familiar and unexpected. In this instance, the body of the working dog is all muscle, as they chase a scent under the brush. The painting is in excellent condition for its age. The frame has a few small impacts from time.