Pierre Gaston Rigaud

Decorative oil on canvas painting depicting a French street and its storefronts. The blue, yellow, ochre and brown hues are very pleasing to the eye. This well executed oil on ...

A beautiful original oil on canvas painting of a street scene in Paris, France. This painting perfectly depicts life in the "City of Lights" with its restaurants, busy streets, cafes...

Laurie Hill Phelps has been a painter for 37 years in Taos New Mexico. Her water colors and oils represent the colorful images of Northern New Mexico. Laurie's paintings have a life ...

17th century, Tuscan school Madonna and Child Oil on canvas, 31 x 21 cm With frame, cm 37,5 x 27,5 The pearly incarnations and the thoughtful play of looks between the Virgin, turned to the Son, and Questi, warmly open to the viewer, pour out the present painting with compositional perfection. Virginal fabrics become mottled at the folds, wrapping the Madonna in a thin vitreous mantle. The pastel colors, shining on the pink robe just tightened at the waist by a gold cord, enliven the faces of the divine couple in correspondence of the cheeks, lit by an orange warmth. Even the left hand of the Virgin, composed in perfect classical pose (Botticelli, Madonna with Child, 1467, Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon), is sprinkled with warmth thanks to the immediate touch with Christ. From the nimbus of the Mother a delicate luminous disk is effused, which takes back, in the most distant rays, the colour of the hair of the Son, from the tones of the sun. The Child Jesus is represented intent in a tender gesture of invitation with the right hand, while with the other he offers a universal blessing: with his hand he retracts the index and annular palms, extending the remaining three fingers, symbol of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The painting welcomes and re-elaborates that typically Tuscan formalism that boasted in the rest of Italy the constant appreciation by the most up-to-date artists and collectors. Arrangement, composition and mixing of colors place the canvas in the middle between the changing mannerist and the sculptural figures of Michelangelo, essential yardstick of comparison in terms of anatomical and expressionistic rendering. In the present, silvery and pinkish powders act as three-dimensional inducers to the Child’s mentioned musculature and to the vivid folds of the clothes, expertly deposited on the lunar whiteness of the skins. While these colours recall the equally brilliantly transparent colours of Pier Francesco Foschi...

Original oil on canvas painting of a French village presumably Le Baux-de-Provence since this artist was from the area. Painted with beautiful colors and wonderful brush strokes. Si...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting titled "Montmartre rue de l'Abreuvoir" signed by G. Denis. This very decorative work of art is painted in the manner of Edouard Cortes that delig...

Flemish School, 17th century Live nature couple with animals Measures: Oil on canvas, cm 25 x 35 - With frame cm 37 x 48 The pair of canvases in question depicts two excited...

An exceptionally fine quality example of a framed French Mid Victorian Oil Painting on Artists board of compact size and of Museum quality. Complete with its original good quality he...

"The Mules" Oil on Canvas Painting. Oil painting of a rural scene in a parcel-gilt wooden frame.

Italian orientalist oil on canvas painting. 20th century. The fine oil painting depicting an orientalist woman dressed in traditional garments w...

An exceptionally fine quality example of an elaborately framed English Still Life of fruits Oil Painting on canvas, in the style of Oliver Clare or Eloise Harriet Stannard, second qu...

An antique French School round hand painted portrait of a lady on canvas presented in a very elegant plaque with red velvet background. The portrait is nicely decorated with brass fl...