Louis Germain PELOUSE (Pierrelaye 1838 - Paris 1891) Village street, entrance to the village of Cernay Canvas Signed lower right 46 x 61 cm (old restorations and small missing parts) Provenance : Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Ader), 3 March 1965, no. 105. To be compared with Entrée du village de Cernay, rue de Limours (Panel 51 x 74 cm), circa 1870-1878, on the Fontainebleau art market in 2001 (see E. Stephan and P. Levesque, Léon Germain Pelouse (1838-1891), catalogue raisonné, Cernay-la-Ville, 2005, no. 39 reproduced in colour).