Jules André (1807 Paris - 1869 ibid.) Romantic mountain landscape with a castle and a young peasant couple collecting brushwood Atmospheric, atmospheric summer landscape by André, who was a pupil of the painters André Jolivard and Louis Étienne Watelet until 1827. He undertook extensive study trips, including through large parts of France, from Normandy, Brittany and Burgundy and the Vosges mountains to the south, through Belgium and the Pyrenees; he was also particularly impressed by the Rhine regions. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1831, where he was honoured in 1835, and was admitted to the Legion of Honour in 1853. Oil on canvas; signed a.; 67 cm x 94 cm. Probably original frame. Oil on canvas. Signed. Probably original frame.