Alexandre François LOISEL
 (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1783 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1865)

 Road from Subiaco to Tivoli

 Oil on canvas
 Signed and dated lower right
 50 x 60 cm
 1836

 Son of a bourgeois rentier from Neuilly, Alexandre François Loisel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on July 27, 1783.

 He acquired his artistic training from Louis Etienne Watelet and Jean Charles Joseph Remond.

 Present at the Salon from 1827 to 1845, he exhibited nearly seventy landscape paintings in less than twenty years!
 Probably drawn from his travels, he exercised his art as much in the representation of regionalist views (Puy de Dôme, Cantal, Auvergne, Normandy, etc.) as of Italy (Naples, Sicily, Calabria, etc.).

 Our painting, from the artist's Italian period, is dated 1836 and titled on the back of the canvas Road from Subiaco to Tivoli. This road is very regularly decorated with medieval hilltop towns that could correspond to the village visible at the top right of the composition, so it is difficult for us to locate the panorama represented more precisely.

 Loisel died on April 19, 1865 at 168 avenue de Neuilly in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the age of 81.

 Museum : Saint-Omer