Joseph Colla

Silver birches, Provence: luminous landscape painting 19C French painting

ca 1870

This luminous landscape is perfectly capturing the light of early spring. A boy is climbing over wooden farm gates, with a backdrop of rolling hills. The painting has a gloriously fr...

A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...

A wonderful and idyllic, mid 19th Century summery village scene, where a pretty young girl stands, knitting (perhaps she is secretly waiting for someone?), village women eat and work...

A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...

It is always wonderful to be able to do original research on a mysterious painting by a mysterious artist. Born in Paris in 1867, Marthe Alers-Abran died tragically young in the same...

An charming 19th century dog painting depicting a mother dogue and her exuberant topsy turvy pups by the farmhouse barns or cowsheds , with a young child given them a fuss! Dating from ca 1860-70, the oil on canvas is unsigned, but bears on the verso a rather special stamp from colour and artists supplies merchant Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). Paul Durand-Ruel is known as the legendary art dealer who launched, almost single handedly, the Impressionist movement. He represented Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir in his Paris, London and New York Galleries. Like his father Jean Marie Durand, Durand Ruel had started as both a merchant of art supplies, and dealer. Often, these two activities overlapped, as he would supply cash strapped artists who left paintings as security. Paul Durand Ruel was one of the first to discover Barbizon artist...

Jean-Baptiste-Arthur CALAME (Geneva, 1843 - Geneva, 1919) Mediterranean shore, probably the Côte d'Azur Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard H. 24 cm; L. 30 cm Signed lower right Circa...

François-Edme RICOIS (Courtalain, 1795 - Mareil-Marly, 1881) View of Châteaudun Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; W. 98 cm Signed and dated lower center 1860 François-Edme Ricois although bor...

The Sailing Ship French School, early 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 14.75 x 22.75 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition

The shepherdess of cows - Oil on canvas cm.24x30 by Ciro De Rosa Italy 2008. in this beautiful oil on canvas depicting a shepherdess with cow, Ciro De Rosa drew inspiration from peasant-inspired paintings, such as those of the great French painter Julien Dupre '. Working during the last half of the 19th century, Julien Dupré was an artist, considered by most, to be one of the leading exponents of the second generation of Realist painters; a group that also includes Leon Lhermitte...

Pointillist Painting "The Road Beneath the Snow (Le Chemin Sous la Neige)" Eugène Bégarat (French, 1943) Oil on canvas 15 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches Saturated with winter's light glinting...

Circle of Xavier LEPRINCE (Paris 1799 - Nice 1826) Picnic in the forest Oil on canvas H. 36 cm; L. 26 cm This picnic scene places us around 1825/35, which makes it a rare representa...