"The Courtship", By ~ Theodore Levigne ~ 1848 - 1912.

Théodore Levigne was born in 1848 in Noirétable, dying in Lyons in 1912. He was a painter of portraits, genre scenes, seascapes and landscapes with figures. His landscapes, which are often set in winter, depict in half tones the damp and misty waterways around Lyons, where he settled, although he also painted seascapes of the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast. In 1998, the Atrium in Tassin-La-Demi-Lune presented a retrospective of his work.