Featured Antique oil painting- comments pls

Hi all,any guesses as to the name of the artist? Frame looks maybe early 20th century to me? Or what do you think? Painting size is 30 x 40cm. Thank you for any comments and help

 

Beautiful detail on the frame

 

Charming painting, looks set in France or Belgium, with those sharply slanting roofs.
Surname de Bourges? Bourges is also the name of a French town, so it could be the title. Looks like 70 after the surname.

The clothing of the women looks second half of the 20th century. Looks like the woman in the yellow raincoat is wearing black lacquer boots, which were fashionable in the 60s and 70s. I could be seeing that wrong, but it does fit in with 70.

 

2 big thumbs up, to the painting and the frame, nice buy mate

 

1920s cloche hats and silhouettes on the women.

Debora

 

Now, this is interesting.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/art-oil-painting-chris-de-bruijn-jr-8-c-e9242a99e4

 

Different style, but same siggy and nearly the same subject.

 

From a Dutch site (de Bruijn is a Dutch name):

"Zijn latere werk, met vooral stadsgezichten zijn meer stemmig en lijken geïnspireerd op de Amsterdamse impressionisten."
https://galeriewijdemeren.nl/Kunstenaars/chris-de-bruijn-jr/

"His later work, with primarily cityscapes is more demure and seems inspired by the Amsterdam Impressionists"

I would say Boland's painting is more Impressionist, so more likely to be late 60s or early 70s. He lived from 1901-1974.

 

Think he went back to the earlier composition. Like the older version with its Impressionism influence and interplay of scales.

Debora

 

Auction site says second example c. 1950.

Debora

 

Yes, that is his earlier style, not yet the Amsterdam Impressionist style.

To get an idea of Amsterdam Impressionism, George Hendrik Breitner was the most famous Amsterdam Impressionist painter:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hendrik_Breitner#Galerij_van_zijn_werken_(selectie)

Paintings halfway down the page.

 

the advertising column isn't french, found similar in Berlin Belgium and Warsaw
( the windows aren't french either

 

We used to have those columns as well, I remember them from my childhood. No Polish posters of course, Dutch ones.

The roofs actually look more Dutch in the 1950s painting. In the later one they could be "Frenchified" Dutch roofs, artistic licence. Although you see them in the southeastern Dutch province of Limburg as well, so that could be a possibility.

 

its the tops of the coumn that change ( depending on the maker )
Amsterdam :

 

Belgium:



Debora

 

That one is close to the one on the painting.

I remember that shape from the Netherlands as well. Could just have been here in the south, near Belgium.

 

do they have these decorative ledges in Belgium ?

 

Could do, but I don't generally look at gutters when I am in Belgium.
It is not a feature in the painting, those gutters are plain. Or is this a general water drainage techniques question?
I think it is a Dutch painting btw.

 

Brilliant that you found this (I really fid try) Many thanks Debora

 

To me this column looks spot on.