Dark Lake

Antique oil painting from Belgium, from artist Carl Friedrich Werlemann. Werlemann was part of a Flemish painters' collective, called the Cercle d'Art Labeur, co-founded In May 1898, by Jules Sébastien Camille Marie Merckaert, a Belgian figurative painter (1872-1924). This Brussels artist collective was an eclectic circle featuring painters, sculptors and musicians. 

This painting is typical of the French School of the XIXth century, emitting a strong melancholy with the abundance of dark deep colors, even in the reflection upon the water. The blackness of the painting is brilliantly nuanced by the light surrounding the scene.

• Overall size: 24.4" x 31.1" / 62 cm x 79cm.   
• Size without the frame: 18.1" x 25.9" / 46cm x 66cm.    
• Provenance: Belgium.
• Signed: Yes, CF Werlemann.
• Date: Late 1800s- Early 1900s.
• Condition: Good condition. Painting shows some craquelures with age and has a small depression in the sky in the upper left hand corner (1") that was probably a point of contact where the paint had flaked off and has been repaired and painted. 
• Materials: Oil on stretched canvas.
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