Alphonse OSBERT (Paris, 1857 - 1939) Solitude Oil on panel, one plate Signed and dated 'a Mr Bellion / bien sympathiquement / A. Osbert' lower right Titled, countersigned and dated 'solitude / A. Osbert / 1895' in ink on verso Solitude, oil on panel, signed and dated, by A. Osbert 7.09 x 10.83 in. 18.0 x 27.5 cm Provenance: Appears in the painter's register under number 97: "Solitude"; Given by the painter to M. Bellion in December 1895; Bellion Collection, General Secretary of La Plume; Lugardon Collection; Acquired from the latter on 13 March 1970 by Gérard Lévy; Gérard Lévy Collection; Then by descent True to his aesthetic principles, Alphonse Osbert goes straight to the point here, synthesising a spiritualised nature through the use of simplified forms, supported by the azure monochrome palette typical of his work. Only the yellow half-moon on the horizon brightens this bewitching "Osbert blue", offering a few golden reflections in the calm water below. In this way, a kind of supernatural aura emerges from this landscape, animated only on the right by an almost ghostly figure, whose spectral presence echoes like a poetic call to prayer, dream and meditation. Alphonse OSBERT (Paris, 1857 - 1939) 18.0 x 27.5 cm True to his aesthetic principles, Alphonse Osbert goes straight to the point here, synthesising a spiritualised nature through the use of simplified forms, supported by the azure monochrome palette typical of his work. Only the yellow half-moon on the horizon brightens this bewitching "Osbert blue", offering a few golden reflections in the calm water below. In this way, a kind of supernatural aura emerges from this landscape, animated only on the right by an almost ghostly figure, whose spectral presence echoes like a poetic call to prayer, dream and meditation.