Could someone please end my fruitless, obsessive search for a particular print

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

that my husband and I once owned many years ago and lost in a fire?

It was a village scene of somewhat rotund villagers going about their daily business in the street. For some reason, I think it was a French scene. It was reminiscent of a Breughel, or an LS Lowry or a Michel Delacroix or if you smooshed all those guys together you would get this print. We loved it so much and I have never seen its like again.

I have searched EBay, I have done google searches, I have gone through the entire artist roster on Art.com. I now turn to you guys as my last, best hope.

[grasswire]

1. what google search words have you used?

and where did you originally get the print?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. We think we got it at Pier One or the Harvard Coop in the late

seventies. I have googled "village scene with variations of "fat" "cubby" "rotund" people/villagers, "street scene print French and pretty much every variation on those words you can imagine. I have also used "print" and "painting" with all of the above. I have spent actual days doing searches until only my bloodshot eyes and aching hunched shoulders prevented me from continuing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Have you tried contacting Pier One?

It's amazing the records stores keep of their inventory.Perhaps they could get you a title at least? Good luck. :hi:

[auntAgonist]

3. was it anything like this?

The Village Market
Camille Pissarro

Easyart ID: 25681
http://en.easyart.com/art-prints/Camille-Pissarro/The-Village-Market-25681.html

[petronius]

4. Is it this one?

http://www.horse-cents.net.nyud.net:8090/images/T_Kinkade/Main_Street_Celebration-S.jpg

:evilgrin:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. Thanks so much aunt agonist and petronius for looking - but not either one.

This print has a somewhat primitive or "naif"(?) quality - it's almost a little cartoonish - it makes you smile to look at it. I could be wrong about the french part, but I think the stores were labelled and they had French names like boulangerie, etc. - but maybe not - that could be part of a false memory - maybe they just said bakery, etc.

But it was definitely a village or street scene with amusing chubby villagers.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. Just a single, sad ,dispirited kick and then I'll drop it, promise. nt.

[JVS]

8. maybe this would be nice

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Was the artist's style anything like this?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

10. a little bit. could be. Who is it?

Looks like a Dumere(?) to me, even a little Talouse Latreccy. I'm starting to feel that the whole premise of my search might be misguided and maybe I am looking for an "illustrator" as opposed to an "artist"

My street scene also had a skewed perspective. My husband has always thought the artist's name was something like Artaud but have never found anything under that name that seemed similar.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Check these out and see if they fit the bill...

I believe Honore' Daumier was who you meant...

Here's a link that might help:
http://www.daumier.org/7.0.html

Fernando Botero did some pneumatic looking people, although his are a little more modern (30s type dress). When anyone says chubby people, he's automatically who I think of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Same era of Toulouse--It's by Henri Gabriel Ibels

http://www.artnet.com/artist/661084/henri-gabriel-ibels.html