Albert Louis HARDON (1819 - 1878) Two trees near a pond Oil on panel Signed lower right 31.5 x 40.5 cm With frame: 54 x 60 cm On the back: Person in Italian costume Albert Louis Hardon was a French landscape artist who studied with Palizzi. He exhibited at the Salon from 1865 to 1879. There is a version of the same subject of the work we present painted by Hardon now kept in the Louvre Museum. Oil on panel, signed lower right, 12.4 x 16 in, with frame : 21.3 x 23.6 in. On the back : Italian man.

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