NARCISSE BERCHÈRE (1819-1891) Thatched cottage landscape or Clair-obscur Oil on canvas Signed lower right (Tears, perforations and old restoration with piece) Oil on canvas, signed lower right 60 x 73 cm - 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. Provenance - Sale, 'Jewellery, silverware, furniture, objets d'art and furnishings from the 19th and 20th centuries, glassware, ceramics 1900, old paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries, books from the 19th and 20th centuries', Lombrail-Teucquam et Massol, La Varenne Saint-Hilaire, 25 April 1999, lot 62 - Private collection, France (by descent)