French Post Impressionist School (Circa 1905)

Artist: French Post Impressionist School (Circa 1905).
Title: La Cuisine (The Cook).
Medium: Oil on wooden panel.
Image Size: Height 17 cm x Width 20 cm.
Framed Size: Height 28 cm x Width 30.5 cm x Depth 2 cm.
Provenance: Private Collection France.
Condition: This work is in excellent condition and is housed in a period gilt frame and is glazed with anti-reflective UV-resistant Museum Glass.

About: La Cuisinere( The cook), a spontaneous render of the camp cook has been painted un plein air, the artist’s treatment of light on the standing figure is outstanding. A posthumous inscription verso states the subject to be the cook of the 15th lancers, also known as Cureton’s Multani's, who was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian army. The inscription also states the artist being that of a French interpreter.

Although the author of this painting remains unknown, the work is very suggestive of the influence of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) specifically recalling works created in and around his WW1 deployment. Comparable works for reference from, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Pastels, Volume III.