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Art For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1910s
Young Elegant Lady In A Hat, Nocturne
Located in PARIS, FR
François Clément SOMMIER, known as Henry SOMM Rouen 1844 - Paris 1907 Young Elegant woman in hat, nocturnal Watercolor Signed lower right 32 x 21 cm 50 x 40 cm framed Very good cond...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste
Located in Roma, RM
Alfredo Tominz (Trieste 1854 – 1936), Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste Dipinto ad olio su tela di cm 69 x 110 firmato e datato 1890 in basso a destra. Provenienza: Asta Stadion Trie...
Category

Late 19th Century Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Return Of Columbus In Chains To Cadiz By Emanuel Leutze
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emanuel Leutze 1816-1868 American Return of Columbus in Chains to Cadiz Signed E. Leutze / Philadelphia (lower right) Oil on canvas Painted by the artist in 1842, this masterpiec...
Category

19th Century Academic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fine 19th Century Scottish Oil Painting Panoramic Loch Scene Listed artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Loch by Charles Leslie (British 19th century) signed lower corner oil on canvas, framed framed: 15 x 27 inches canvas: 12 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, UK ...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

View Of Westminster From The Thames, 19th Century Signed indistinctly
Located in Blackwater, GB
View Of Westminster From The Thames, 19th Century Signed indistinctly Large 19th century English School extensive view of London, looking toward Westminster from the Thames, oil on...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nudes Sunbathing On A Beach, 19th Century circle of PHILIP WILSON STEER
Located in Blackwater, GB
Nudes Sunbathing On A Beach, 19th Century circle of PHILIP WILSON STEER (1860-1942) Large 19th Century English beach scene with nudes sunbathing, oil on canvas. Excellent quality a...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

Wire Fox Terrier Dog, 19th Century by FREDERICK FRENCH (1860-1916)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Wire Fox Terrier, 19th Century by FREDERICK FRENCH (1860-1916) Large 19th Century portrait of a Wire Fox Terrier with a hair in a landscape, oil on canvas by Frederick French. Exc...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reminiscence of Vermont, ca. 1860–1870
Located in New York, NY
In this detailed and colorful rendering of a Vermont countryside entitled “Reminiscence of Vermont,” William Hart paints two figures walking along a stream
Category

19th Century Hudson River School Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna
Located in New York, NY
William Stanley Haseltine paints a beautiful river landscape in Roman Campagna at the end of day in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna.”
Category

Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Josephus Augustus Knip (1777-1847), Picturesque Landscape Of The Alps
Located in PARIS, FR
Josephus Augustus KNIP Tilbourg 1777 - Berlicum 1847 Picturesque landscape of the Alps with anthropomorphic rock Circa 1800 Watercolor, gouache and brown ink Signed lower left 47 x ...
Category

Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

A Night At The Opera, 19th Century by Manuel CUSI Y FERRET (1857-1922)
By Manuel Cusi y Ferret
Located in Blackwater, GB
A Night At The Opera, 19th Century by Manuel CUSI Y FERRET (1857-1922) to $20,000 Large 19th century Spanish portrait of a lady at the theatre, oil on canvas by Manuel CUSI Y FERRE...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Farm to the Donkey
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GARAT Francis (1870 - NC) The Farm of The Donkey Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low right Frame guilded Size canvas : 50 X 76 cm - Size frame : 60 X 76 cm GARAT Francis (1870 -...
Category

1880s Academic Art

Materials

Oil

On The Glaslyn, North Wales
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20 x 30 inches Framed size: 25.25 x 35.25 inches Signed lower right
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Death Of Icarus, 19th Century - Alexandre CABANEL (1823-1889)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Death Of Icarus, 19th Century circle of Alexandre CABANEL (1823-1889) Large 19th Century French classical scene of The Death Of Icarus, oil on canvas circle of Alexandre Cabane...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Auguste DE WEVER (1836-1910) Hindu Birdcatcher
Located in Gent, VOV
Hindu Birdcatcher A fine quality, a nineteenth-century bronze cast of the Hindu bird-catcher standing on an elephant skull and holding two birds in the air which are sitting on a bambu stick by Auguste De Wever (Belgian 1836-1910). Old cast probably by the Compagnie des Bronzes foundry signed...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Bronze

Obersee by François Roffiaen (1820-1898) Oil on canvas
Located in Gent, VOV
The Watsman, a painted view between Obersee and Koningsee, Upper Bavaria. Study painted in 1856 by François Roffiaen. François Roffiaen (1820-1898): Biography François Roffiaen's f...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pair of Terracotta Nubiens probably Goldsheider
Located in LA BOUILLE, FR
An exquisite set of a pair of North African orientalist/africanist terracotta sculptures of a man and female conveying water containers. Most likely by Goldsheider, incredibly molded...
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Terracotta

Mare - hunting horse by Josuë Dupon 1864-1935
Located in Gent, VOV
A beautiful large bronze sculpture of a proud standing mare. Old sand cast created during the artist Josuë Dupon's lifetime. Josuë Dupon (also Josué or Josue Dupon) was a Flemish sculptor and engraver. His work also includes painting and graphics. He received his training through evening classes at the academy of Roeselare and Antwerp (1884) and later at the National Institute of Fine Arts (1887). In 1891, he won a gold medal with the monumental sculpture group Samson kills the lion and was runner-up in the Prix de Rome for sculpture. From that year on, his work appeared regularly in exhibitions at home and abroad. His reputation was such, that he became one of a select group of sculptors allowed by King Leopold II to carve statues in Ivory, which was imported from the Congo, the Belgian colony. In 1893 his exceptionally refined ivory statue of Diana was bought by the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts, which also acquired his spectacular bronze Vulture defending its prey a year later. Working in every genre and mastering every technique and material, Josuë Dupon became best known as a sculptor of exotic animals. He was equally capable of faithfully expressing anatomical detail as of rendering the animals' nature. Josuë Dupon was a technically faultless realist, with a sense of the dramatic, a feeling for decorative complexity and a tendency towards idealizing. The placement of his camel driver and two bronze groups at the entrance to Antwerp Zoo confirmed this reputation as animalier. The career that Dupon subsequently built, brought him numerous important awards and an appointment as professor at the Antwerp Academy, a tenure he held between 1905 and 1934. Besides animals, he sculpted busts, war memorials and public monuments. For one of the largest sculptural monuments and the largest fountain in the city of Buenos Aires, called Monument of the Two Congresses, he collaborated with his good friend, the Belgian sculptor Jules Lagae. Josuë Dupon created several statues of mighty condors for this monument. At the start of his career his conception of art was strongly influenced by traditional 19th century artistic ideals. After the turn of the century his compositions and surface treatment changed and became more modern. He met Rembrandt Bugatti around 1905 or 1906 in the 'Jardin des Plantes' in Paris and invited him to Antwerp. Bugatti began travelling to Antwerp in 1906 to observe and sculpt the inhabitants of its zoo, which was then considered the best in the world, and Dupon allowed Bugatti to stay with him during several of his early visits. As such Dupon became a friend and a bit of a father figure to Rembrandt Bugatti. Dupon did not play a very active part in artistic movements or associations. Dupon remains an important sculptor not only through his body of work but also because of the influence he exercised through interactions and collaboration with other sculptors such as Lagae, Bugatti and Bourdelle but also because he trained leading sculptors such as Albéric Collin (1886-1962), Willy Kreitz...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Bronze

Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Four young English girls with flowers are shown in a line and moving from left to right. They are pushed forward on the picture plane as if they were on a stage with a simple indica...
Category

1890s Academic Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Hippolyte Leroy (1876-1943) - A view of Blankenberghe, 1873
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left: " Hip Le Roy, Blankenberghe, 1873," This painting captures the serene vista of Blankenberghe, inviting viewers into the essence of coasta...
Category

19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

18th-19th Century By Natale Schiavoni Portrait of the Sister Oil on Cardboard
By Natale Schiavoni
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original frame in gilded wood and gilded pastiglia. Autograph dedication of the artist in the back of the painting. Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia (Venice), 1777 – Venice, 1858) wan a...
Category

19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

The Broken Mast
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
It is subjectively proven that artistic inspiration strikes individuals in varied and unique ways. In this single painting, an appreciative audience may examine how the early luminou...
Category

1870s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Autumn Landscape with Boy Fishing
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right. This painting was exhibited in the Christopher Pearse Cranch landscape exhibition in 2007 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and published and illustrated in the cata...
Category

Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edinburgh From Carlton Hill, 19th Century Thomas Grant (19th Century, British)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Edinburgh From Carlton Hill, 19th Century Thomas Grant (19th Century, British) Large 19th Century view of Edinburgh at sunset from Carlton Hill, oil on canvas by Thomas Grant. Exte...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Gold Brooch, Orientalist Oil Painting, Signed and dated 1894
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel, signed, dated and inscribed ‘Bou Saada, 1894’ lower right Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm) Ornate Gilt frame Euguene Alexis Girardet A child prodigy, Gi...
Category

1890s Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

“Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Category

1890s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Summer Morning, 19th Century French School, Impressionistic Landscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas Image size: 8 x 10½ inches (20 x 27 cm) Contemporary frame This charming portrayal of a rustic house in the early hours of the morning is an excellent example of the e...
Category

19th Century French School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Herkules Farnese, National Museum, Neapel
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fratelli Alinari (19th century): View of the back figure of Hercules Farnese in the large hall in the National Archaeological Museum, Museo Nazionale, Naples, c. 1880, albumen paper ...
Category

19th Century Art

Tug Boat on the Thames, Early 20th Century Etching Print, London Landscape
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, signed bottom left Image size: 9 x 4 3/4 inches (22.75 x 12 cm) Framed
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

Soldier with Package from Home, Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Center Right by Artist Collier's Magazine Cover, December 23 1916
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Oil

"Char De L'aurore " The Chariot of Aurora AUGUSTE MOREAU (FRANCE, 1861-1906)
Located in New York, NY
"Char De L'aurore " The Chariot of Aurora Artist: AUGUSTE MOREAU (FRANCE, 1861-1906) Medium: Bronze, Brown and gilt patina Signed with partial TIFFANY mark and titled on base.
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Bronze

Presumed portrait of Athanase Peltier in front of the Fort of Ham - France
Located in PARIS, FR
Édouard Henri Théophile PINGRET (Saint-Quentin, 1785 – Paris, 1869) Presumed portrait of Athanase Peltier in front of the Fort of Ham Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 40.5...
Category

Early 19th Century French School Art

Materials

Oil

Ships Sailing In A Venice Lagon At Sunset 19th Century Etienne Leroy (1828-1876)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Ships Sailing In A Venice Lagon At Sunset, 19th Century by Etienne Leroy (1828-1876) Large 19th Century Venetian Sunset view of ships sailing across the lagoon, oil on canvas by E...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Étude des paysans
Located in GLEN IRIS, AU
Albert Lebourg ​ Étude des paysans ​ pencil on paper, signed lower right, estate stamp on the reverse, 19 x 13.5cm ​ Provenance: Vente Maître Dumousset, Paris, May 1999: Pri...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Pencil

Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view, 19th century, Pencil Technique: White heightened Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: Watermark: Shield of arms with initials "AGC Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Verso: numbered: 26"" Keywords: Back view, female garment, drapery, academy study, garment study, antique garment...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Children Playing Of A Hillside, Near Cape Curig, Wales, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Children Playing Of A Hillside, Near Cape Curig, Wales, 19th Century by Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886) Large 19th Century view of children playing in a hillside near Capel Curig...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966) Large early 20th Century French Impressionist portrait of a ballerina, oil on canvas by Marcel Bloch. Good q...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a British Hong Kong Diplomat, circa 1890 Chinese School -
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of a British Hong Kong Diplomat, circa 1890 Chinese School - one of a pair we are selling 19th Century Chinese Provincial School portrait ...
Category

Early 19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sur le balcon (On the Balcony)
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited: Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris, 1893 (as Jeune Fille arrosant ses fleurs) Literature: Michel, Jean Pierre, François Guiguet (Corbelin, France, 1996), p. 102 (n...
Category

1890s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude Boy Bathing, early 20th Century French School - signed indistinctly
Located in Blackwater, GB
Nude Boy Bathing, early 20th Century French School - signed indistinctly Large early 20th Century French School portrait of a young boy preparing to bath himself, oil on canvas sig...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Italian landscape with fortified town
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with fortified town, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Descriptio...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Giovane ragazza con papaveri (Young Girl with Poppies)
Located in Washington, DC
Literature: Manuel Carrera, “Una ritrattistica manciniana nelle collezioni della Gnam,” Belle-Arti 131, no. 2 (2013), p. 44 (color illus.)
Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

William Bodfish Oil Painting Titled "The Sister's Visit", Dated 1888
Located in New York, NY
Two figures in 19th century dress sit at a table in a cafe. Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey Originally based in New York City, William Bodfish was a talented artist who gained recognition for his illustrations and cartoons in the late nineteenth century. A painter of genre scenes, he also created detailed illustrations of hunting, whaling and fishing adventures for such magazines as Harper's Weekly. In the years following the Civil War, he traveled to the American West, joining the legion of journalists and illustrators who recorded the development of the new frontier. He was considered by historians to be one of the most “able cartoonists” to tackle the West. During his lifetime, Bodfish exhibited work at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. Likely created after the artist’s departure from New York, The Sister’s Visit records a quiet moment between two siblings. Seated before a lovely spread of luncheon items, including a bowl of oranges...
Category

1880s Art

Materials

Oil

French Mythological Kiss Terracotta statue 19 century
Located in Florence, IT
This terracotta represents a mythological scene, in which we can see a centaur kissing with passion a lady, while a man is playing the Pan flute. On the back...
Category

19th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Terracotta

Boy with Apples
By Georg Cornelius
Located in Lincoln, GB
This portrait of a young boy with an apple is a beautiful piece by Georg Cornicelius.
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seated nude with Face in Profile - Pencil Drawing - female Nude
By Alexej Jawlensky
Located in London, GB
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941 Torzhok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden (Russian/German) Title: Seated nude with Face in Profile Sitzender Akt mit Gesicht im Profil, 1912 Technique: Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper Paper size: 50 x 40 cm. / 19.7 x 15.7 in. Additional Information: This drawing is signed in pencil by the artist “A v Jawlensky” at the lower right image. It is dated in pencil “1912”, at the lower left image. Provenance: Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover Sotheby's London, 28 June 1978. Lot 176. Jacqueline Kohler-Krotoschin, Zurich Beurret & Bailly, Basel, 20 June 2018. Lot 107. Exhibited: “Zwischen Tradition und Moderne”. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover. 1975. Recorded as no. 222, cat. 14 (Illustrated). Literature: 1. Weiler,C. (1970) Alexej Jawlensky...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Pencil

Sketching Among the Irises by George Herbert McCord (American: 1848-1909)
Located in New York, NY
"Sketching Among the Irises" by George Herbert McCord (1848-1909) is oil on canvas and measures 20 x 16 inches. The painting is signed by the artist at the lower left.
Category

19th Century Hudson River School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flower Arrangement - Original 19th Century Painting
By Achille Théodore Cesbron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915) Flower Arrangement Oil on oval canvas signed low right Framed by Gault (Paris - Fbg St Honoré) Dim canvas : 63 X 48 cm Dim frame : 79 X 64 cm Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915) French school 19th-20th century Born the 5th of November 1849 in Oran (Algeria). Dead the 4th of January 1915. Painter of genre scene, portraits, still life, flowers, pastel. Pupil of Bonnat and Cormon, he regularly exhibited at the « Salon des Artistes Français », whose he became shareholder in 1883, getting several rewards and medals from 1882 to 1886. He has got the Marie...
Category

1880s Academic Art

Materials

Oil

Vesuvius. Vast lava rock landscape
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Wide lava rock landscape with posing person Vesuvius, Campania, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print Inscription: Lower midd...
Category

19th Century Art

Signed Luigia Orsi Drawing view of the Koln cathedral 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing represents a lateral view over the Cathedral of Koln that doesn't want to be a faithfull copy from real but It's pervaded with a nostalgic and decadent feeling proper of...
Category

Early 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

KPM Porcelain Allegorical Plaque Of Admiration Late 19th Century Plaque
Located in New York, NY
Berlin Porcelain Allegorical Plaque of Admiration KPM, Late 19th CENTURY The three-quarter-length portrait depicting a brunette woman with blue eyes in light ecclesiastical robes supporting palms crossed over chest and looking up over right shoulder - in a landscape immersed in powder blue sea holly...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Porcelain, Paint

Neoclassical Academia Drawing Study 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing (pencil on paper, 37.5 x 24 cm) is an Academia (a common study during the Academy lesson on the 19th century) based on an antique subject. It represents a naked young ma...
Category

Early 19th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Tuscan Mythological Allegory Drawing 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing represents a group of putti depicted while they are intent in studying together the "quadrivium". The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy...
Category

19th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Scagliola Plaster Painting Portrait Napoleon 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Portrait of the younger brother of Napoleon, Lucien Bonaparte, done with the Scagliola technique. Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster came into fashion in 17th-century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family...
Category

Late 19th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Plaster

Courtship and The Shepherd's Family (a pair)
Located in Washington, DC
19th Century Dutch
Category

1860s Academic Art

Materials

Oil

“Bavarian Flower Girls”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a vibrant portrait of a pair of Bavarian flower girls in traditional dress. The painting is unlined and has recently been cleaned. Circa 1875. The pain...
Category

1870s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Daydreaming
Located in Washington, DC
Ideal head by 19th-century American painter.
Category

Late 19th Century Academic Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga - Etching by M.Roux after E. Delacroix - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 28 cm. La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored paper, realized by M. Roux after Eugène Delacroix . In v...
Category

1910s Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

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