Saules au bord de la rivière” (Willows by the river), Oil on Panel, by Médard Tytgat (1871-1948). A painting of a riverside landscape, signed below right. M Tytgat was a Belgian painter, lithographer, book illustrator, and poster artist known for portraits, nudes, and landscapes. In 1890, he began his education at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, from where hewent into exile in England at the outbreak of the first world war. This peaceful rural scene is mounted in an ornately carved frame.