• George Oberteuffer
• American, 1878-1940
• "Notre Dame de Paris"
• Oil on Canvas
• 44 x 53 inches, Framed: 52 1/8 x 60 inches
• Signed lower right
• Price on Request

George Oberteuffer’s best and most sough-after works are those he painted during his nineteen-year stay in France. Inspired by the Luxembourg Gardens, and the architecture of northern France, Oberteuffer developed a fresh and vigorous style, using vibrant color and agile brushstrokes that was influenced by French Impressionism. Notre Dame de Paris is a perfect example of this style. This paining displays the presence of Notre Dame on a fall day. He is able to capture the contrast between the gray from both the sky and stone in front of the church with the vibrant greens from the garden in the foreground. In true impressionistic form, Oberteuffer chose to use strong, bright colors for the clothes of the people in front of Notre Dame. The wash of the sky combined with the impressionistic feel throughout the painting makes Notre Dame de Paris one of Oberteuffer’s strongest Notre Dame paintings.