A painter in the traditions of Belgian Impressionists, Constant Wets was active in the period 1890-1920. He is remembered as both a painter in oils as well as a lithographer who enjoyed the painting of pure landscape subjects, rarely peopled, yet still full of interest to the viewer. He was working in the suburbs of Brussels and was a contemporary of Jules Merckaert and Jean Stevan. Like his contemporaries he painted in a loose impressionist manner employing a heavy impasto and a carefully observed color pallet.
This classic example of the work of Constant Wets dates to 1910 and depicts a rural cottage garden scene. It benefits greatly from the addition of its original gilded frame of a style associated with the Cerisier frame-makers of Brussels.
Lit; P. Piron
Belgian Artists Signatures, Vol II
