Oil on Canvas on Board Landscape Painting of Chateau Polin in Varzy (Signed JM Berthot; 1950) Vintage

Oil on Canvas on Board Landscape Painting of Chateau Polin in Varzy (Signed JM Berthot; 1950) VintageScenic landscape with a tower or turreted building (possible chapel or watchtower), surrounded by dense pine trees and sloping meadows Composition leads the eye through a diagonal path of green, typical of Romantic and early Impressionist landscapes Oil on canvas applied to back board Chateau de X 1959 Varzy Chateau polin JM Berthot 1950 Artist is J. M. Berthot Subject is Chateau Polin in Varzy, a commune in the Nievre department of central France

and an inner beaded sight edge framing a modern replacement mirror plate

Two or three drilled holds on the back for small screws or tacks - indicating attachment to wood

decorative scrolled feet

Polished to a high glass

ruffled plates growing upward and outward in layers

The surface shows intentionally applied distressing and tonal variation meant to suggest age

Also called Dante chair or Curule Chair

fragmenta - a collected volume of the great Roman elegiac poets

Lined and ready to hang

Shell Hat Pin

very classic colorway for Grand Apparat (Hermès has reissued the design many times in different palettes)

then became part of Crystalex in 1974