Oil on wood board signed « E. Friant » on lower left part & located « Cap Martin » on bottom right part. Dated “86” and located “au Cap Martin” in pencil on verso. Provenance : Private collection of a Loire Château. Painted in 1886 during his travel to Italy with Constant Coquelin after Belgium & the Netherlands. Emile Friant had the common sense and solidity of realists. Excellent technician who knew how to do everything in the field of drawing and painting specially of landscapes, his art came from the tender and quirky look he took on the world.