"The Hunting Party" oil on panel

"The Hunting Party" oil on panel attributed to Philippe Budelot c1800.

Philippe Budelot was born in Dijon; he was active as an artist at the end of the 18^th and the beginning of the 19^th century; the nephew of Jean-Baptiste Budelot, he was a pupil of Bruandet and was later the director of the St Petersburg porcelain factory under Alexander I. His first Salon picture was a landscape exhibited in Paris in 1793, after which he worked essentially as a landscape painter.

His work is represented in the Galleries Abbeville, Arras, Châlons-en-Champagne and Épinal.

Biblio: Bénézit : Dictionnaire des Peintres; Thieme Becker V, 1911

525 x 665