Mid-20th c. Hilltop Village View with Bridge

Mid-20th-century oil painting: a hilltop village framed by a winding road and a stone bridge, rendered in green and violet tones with a romantic, slightly naive touch characteristic of regional French painting of the period.

The violet is the tell. Regional painters working after the war used it constantly for shadow and distance, and it gives pictures of this era a recognisable coolness that reads beautifully against warm wood or terracotta.