Felix Saturnin BRISSOT de WARVILLE
 (Véron, 1818 – Versailles, 1892)

 Sheep in the sheepfold

 Oil on panel
 Signed lower left
 28 x 36 cm

 Félix Saturnin Brissot de Warville was born in Yonne, in Véron near Sens, on May 7, 1818.
 He is the grandson of Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793) who was an influential Girondin member of the Convention during the French Revolution and the son of Anacharsis Brissot de Warville (1791-1854), a man of letters during the Restoration.

 A student of Léon Cogniet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Félix Brissot de Warville participated in the Paris Salon from 1846 until his death. He sent no fewer than one hundred and fifty paintings throughout his career, some of which were awarded prizes.

 This panel is characteristic of the production of Félix Saturnin Brissot de Warville. Essentially a painter of rural and animal scenes, he was interested in the landscapes of the Loire Valley, Île-de-France, Normandy and Agen, before devoting himself to the evocation of the Pyrenees and the Tarbes countryside from 1860.

 Napoleon III made him the manager of the Palace of Compiègne, a position he held until his retirement at the end of 1882.

 The artist died in Versailles on June 26, 1892.

 Museums : Boston, New York (Brooklyn Mus.), Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Dieppe, Laval, Marseille, Nevers, Troyes, Rueil-Malmaison, Versailles, Toulouse…