French Post Impressionist landscape, oil on board by Charles Picart Le Doux. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and is presented in a gilt and patinated wood frame.

A charming painting which vividly portrays a tranquil riverside scene, capturing the serene interplay of nature and architecture. The foreground is dominated by a rocky shoreline, leading the viewer's eye towards the calm river reflecting the soft hues of the sky. Trees, stripped bare, stand starkly against a backdrop of distant hills, adding a sense of depth and seasonal transition. Two modest houses, partially hidden among the foliage, contribute to the scene's quiet charm. The artist skilfully utilizes a vibrant colour palette, employing shades of blue, green, and earth tones to infuse the landscape with warmth and vitality. The brushwork is expressive and dynamic, suggesting movement in the rippling water and the gentle rustling of leaves. An arched bridge in the background adds structural balance, connecting the natural and human elements harmoniously. This painting captures a fleeting, peaceful moment in an idyllic natural setting, inviting viewers to lose themselves in its serene beauty.

Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux (12 July 1881 – 11 September 1959) was a French painter and engraver, poet and writer. He was the descendant of an old Parisian family whose genealogy can be traced back to 1744. The painter's grandfather, Louis, Charles, Auguste, was a glass painter and executed, among other things, the large south rose window of Notre Dame de Paris. A friend of Corot, Vernet, Th. Gauthier, and the winner of the gold medal of Queen Amélie, it was through him that the young Charles was initiated into the design. A powerful painter in his landscapes, sensual in his nudes and profound in his portraits, Charles Picart Le Doux, as Jules Romains wrote, "never betrayed what he rightly considered to be the good and true painting. He refused to follow fashion" Charles Picart le Doux studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly before definitively embarking on an artistic career, first attending the Académie Julian and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1902. The painter first lived in Montmartre and frequented the Lapin agile where he met Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (two years his junior) and created unfailing friendships with René Arcos, Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains with whom he supported the group of the Abbey in Créteil, but also with Pierre Mac Orlan, Luc Durtain, Francis Carco, etc. In 1903 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, of which he became a member, then at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1905 and then in 1908, he first painted a portrait and then a nude of Misia Sert. He exhibited once again at the Salon d'Automne in 1906. The interest aroused by his first paintings led the BLOT gallery in Paris, to devote his first major exhibition to him. The Vildrac gallery opened its doors to him, soon followed by many others in France. Picart le Doux became a member of the UMBM (Union Maritime de la Butte Montmartre) He also taught for a long time at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During the First World War, Picart le Doux was incorporated into the army where he served as a nurse in the trenches. He returned wounded and sick. In the 1920s, Picart Le Doux exhibited in Paris, at the Galeries Charpentier and Drouant-David. Several museums acquired 23 paintings (Paris, New York, Moscow, Tokyo (imperial collection). In 1921, he became friends with Aristide Maillol. In 1933, Charles Picart Le Doux received the Legion of Honour. That year, he held numerous exhibitions in France and Luxembourg. In the years 1934-1939, he decorated part of the salons of the liner Le Normandie and the Lycée Hélène Bouchet in Paris. He was awarded the great gold medal at the International Exhibition. He held a major exhibition at the Charpentier Gallery, inaugurated by the Ministers of National Education and Fine Arts. He illustrated a large number of authors: Albert Samain (Hyalis), Charles Vildrac (Livre d'amour), Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains, Pierre Mac Orlan (whom he knew at a very young age, when the latter wanted to be a painter). During the Second World War, the painter moved to Touraine. He first stayed with Jules Romains in Saint-Avertin, then in Tours, where he decorated the prefecture and composed more than a hundred paintings and portraits. After the war, he returned to Paris to his studio on rue Boisonade. He participated in the decoration of the town hall of the 14th arrondissement and held exhibitions in Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Amiens, Moulin, Besançon, Rouen and Caen in particular, at the museum of Metz and Nancy and abroad, in San Francisco and Oslo.