Henri Jacques Delpy (French, 1877 to 1957)
An artist of the Barbizon tradition, Delpy was the son and pupil of Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842 to 1910), himself a student of the great plein aire painter Charles Francois Daubigny (1817 to 1878) and Camille Corot (1796 to 1875), the leader of the Barbizon School.
As a child, the younger Delpy would accompany his father on painting excursions into the French countryside, where they were frequently joined by other artists. The styles of the two men are very similar, and since they often painted the same scenes, it is not unusual for the work of one to be mistakenly attributed to the other.
Reference: Benezit. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Librairie Grund, 1976, vol. III, p. 478.
Information courtesy of Neal Auction Company, December 2008.