Antique French Oil Painting on Board - Village Street Scene

Antique French oil on board: a village street with figures, shopfronts and tiled roofs under a bright sky, painted loosely and warmly. Small format, unframed. The verso is stamped Fournier, Droguiste, Rue Paradis 80, Marseille, with a relief seal and an old date, pointing firmly to a southern-French origin in the early 20th century.

A supplier's stamp on the reverse is the kind of detail collectors care about, because it anchors an unsigned painting to a real address in a real city. Rue Paradis runs through the heart of Marseille, and the droguiste who sold this board sold artists' colours alongside everything else.