painter, exhibited with the Victorian Society of Fine Arts in 1857 while on a brief visit to Melbourne. His paintings, which apparently arrived too late for inclusion in the catalogue and were untitled, seem to have been Barbizon School landscapes, a style popularised by Buvelot many years later. The critic of the Age stated:
M. de Mondonville’s pictures though not catalogued are given deserved place in the exhibition. This gentleman, who has gathered his inspiration from his studies in the forests near Paris arrived in the colony some months ago, and from a concurrence of circumstances has never been able to bring himself prominently before the Victorian public, and now we are about to lose him just at the moment he ought have had an opportunity of making himself known. This artist handles his subjects very skilfully, and we should suppose him almost unrivalled in the depiction of sylvan scenes, but he exhibits a tendency to the too free use of greens which materially detracts from the excellence of the products of his easel.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
