Lot 1250 Rα

François Boher was the son of a stonemason and worked first as a sculptor before becoming a painter. He travelled, like many other French artists of the time, to Italy, in order to complete his education. Boher belongs to the great tradition of French landscape painters of the 18th Century. His paintings are influenced by work of Claude Vernets, Jacob Philipp Hackert and other painters of the 18th Century. This painting uses well known motifs of French landscape painting such as the imposing waterfall, the antique temple and the figures fishing.