REMOND, Charles Paris 1795–1875 View of Lake Nemi Original oil on canvas Signed lower right and dated 1846 H. 62 – W. 91 cm Wooden frame with gilded stucco featuring a motif of bindweed and seashells in the corners (acquired). For information on Charles Rémond, a student of J. B. Regnault and J. V. Bertin, who won the First Prix de Rome for Historical Landscape in 1821 with *The Rape of Proserpine*, and who worked in the Roman and Neapolitan countryside, then in Sicily, see Lydia Harambourg’s work, *Dictionary of 19th-Century French Landscape Painters*, pp. 296–297 (Ides et Calendes, 1985). His major landscapes are housed in France in eighteen major provincial museums (Amiens, Angers, Dijon, Montpellier, Nantes, Reims, Rouen, Versailles, etc.). Expert: Patrice DUBOIS