Follower of Louis Léopold Robert

Follower of LOUIS LÉOPOLD ROBERT (France, 1794 - Venice, 1835).
"Gallant scene".
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Measurements: 73 x 60 cm; 100 x 79 cm (frame).
Intimate and narrative scene, where two figures, a young man dressed in popular clothes and a woman concentrated in her sewing work, establish a dialogue full of emotional subtlety. From the technical point of view, the work shows a precise drawing and a warm palette, with special attention to textiles and costume details, characteristic traits of Robert's followers. The lighting, soft and enveloping, contributes to highlight the main figures without breaking the harmony of the whole.
Louis Léopold Robert was a Swiss painter who began his artistic training as an apprentice in Yverdon-les-Bains (Vaud). In 1810, he moved to Paris, where he began as a writer's apprentice. However it is known that in 1812 he joined the workshop of Jacques-Louis David began, where he began to paint and learn engraving, winning a second prize in Rome in 1814.
At the fall of the Empire, Neuchâtel, his hometown, became part of Prussia and Leopold Robert lost his French nationality, thus being out of competition for the Grand Prix of Rome where he was working for the first prize. He returned to La Chaux-de-Fonds where he abandoned the chisel to devote himself to painting and painted many portraits that increased his reputation among the Neuchâtel bourgeoisie. Francis Roulet Mézerac, his generous patron, allowed him to continue his painting studies in Rome. In 1825, he attended the workshop of Juliette Recamier, on his trip to Naples, where a large family of bourgeois served as models and compositions of Italian scenes that earned him admiration and an elite clientele. He even worked on one of the representations of the four seasons and the four largest countries of Italy for the Salon of painting and sculpture in Paris. In 1829, he returned to Italy to visit the Pontine Lagoons where he met Louis II of Holland and his wife Charlotte Napoleon Bonaparte. After different stays and trips, in 1832 he went to the Papal States. Then he went to Florence. After this trip he began his last monumental composition, that of the winter season, The departure of the fishermen of the Adriatic, inspired by Victor Hugo and Alphonse de Lamartine.