Lot 462: Two Girls - Evening Sun in the Woods

Numa-François Gillet Bordeaux 1868 - 1940 Oil/canvas, 60 x 50 cm, lo. ri. sign. Numa Gillet. - French figure a. landscape painter. G. was trained in the studios of W. A. Bouguereau a. T. Robert-Fleury. 1890-1909 he exhibited regularly at the Salon in Paris, also at the Salon d'automne a. at the Paris World Fair 1900. He was chevalier of the legion d'honneur. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.