Antique oil painting on stretched canvas of a Breton marketplace by French artist Alfred Victor Founier signed in the lower right.  A very charming and animated piece of art by a well known and respected French artist.  Here, the artist has painted freely and at speed, his brushstrokes capturing an everyday scene in Brittany but making it interesting and animated.  Woman, wearing traditional costumes busy themselves at the market, baskets on arms to carry their purchases home.   The canvas is textured with layers of thickened paint. 
  
MORE ABOUT THIS PAINTING:
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas
Painting size: 16ins x 13ins or 41cms x 33cms (Approx)
Overall size with frame: 22ins x 20ins or 56cm x 50cm (Approx)
Date: 1900's turn of the century.
Signed: Alfred Victor Fournier (1872-1924) Fournier was the son of Antoine Léopold Fournier and Jenny Henriette Poix, feather workers.
He studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paul-Émile Boutigny, and Albert Maignan. He exhibited at the Salon from 1899 to 1924. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1901 and was awarded an honorable mention in 1902, a third-class medal in 1906, and the Albert Maignan Prize in 1911.
In 1908, he married Jeanne Ricaud in Bordeaux; the painter Eugène Gauguin was a witness at the wedding.  A painter of seascapes, landscapes, genre scenes, and a few portraits, he produced numerous paintings in Concarneau and Brittany. He was thus associated with the “Concarneau School.” Near the Plage des Dames, he had a villa built in 1904 on Rue Jacques-Toiray in Concarneau, where he often stayed until his death 20 years later in 1924.
Condition:  The painting is in good stable condition. The frame has had renovations throughout.
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