A truly beautiful impressionist oil on canvas of geese in a farmyard.  This exceptional painting is by French artist Louise de Ladevèze-Cauchois (see more about this artist below) and is likely painted around 1880.  It is a painting with an eye catching use of colour.  The sun bleached geese are the main focus, their blue shadowed bodies are quite delightful, whilst the rest of the painting also gives the viewer a wonderful depth of colour with a myriad of mixed hues.  
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas
Overall size: 23ins x 26ins or 59cms x 65cms including the frame (Approx).
Date: 1800's
Signed: Louise de Ladevèze-Cauchois (1855-1938)  Louise was born in Paris the daughter of Félix Prosper Ladevèze, a typographer and Eulalie Lefebvre a cheesemaker .
In 1876 she married the painter Eugène Cauchois (1850 - 1911).  The painter Eugène Capelle (1834-1887) was a witness at the wedding.
Louise was a student of her husband and also Léon Barillot (1844 - 1929) and Charles Hermann-Léon (1838 - 1907).  She exhibited at the Salon from 1901 and became a member of the Society of French Artists .
She painted countryside scenes with chickens, geese and turkeys
She received an honorable mention in 1906, the Marie-Bashkirtseff prize the same year, and a 3rd class medal in 1909. She won the 1st prize of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1911 and became a member of its committee in 1913. In 1912, she received the Léonie-Dusseuil prize.
Condition:  This painting is in good condition for its age, no real problems to note. It's in, what looks likely to be its original frame, the frame has had renovations and has imperfections throughout, particularly at the corners and losses of moulding consistent with age, all appears to be sound.