Oil on canvas painting titled by the artist (in French) "A Stream in the Woods, Around Orléans" presented at the Salon de Paris in 1878.Louis François Hippolyte Ribbrol was a French landscape painter and potter. Born August 30, 1839 in Blois (Loir-et-Cher), son of a wood merchant, he studied in Paris, where he was a pupil of the painter Thomas Couture (1815-1879). Couture had an independent workshop which rivaled the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and where he taught, among others, Édouard Manet. He exhib