Henri Lafarge de Gaillard

Henri Lafarge de Gaillard - 1895 Watercolour, The Procession

1895

A charming scene depicting figures walking a narrow European street towards a church. Unsigned. Presented in a dark wooden frame with a gilt slip. On paper.

A charming study depicting soldiers guarding a flooded street in Paris in 1910. The composition skillfully captures the bustle of city life, centering on a pair of soldiers in bright...

A charming watercolour by the well listed artist Pierre Le Boeuff (fl.1899-1920) depicting a quaint continental canal scene, featuring a prominent church tower rising above charming ...

Fishing boats at Saint Etienne. Signed 'E. A. Hare' to the lower left and inscribed 'Paul Marny, Saint Etienne' to the lower right. Presented in a gilt fram...

Isidore Pils (1813-1875) An Orientalist scene Signed lower left Pencil and heightenings of watercolor on paper ​​​​​​​15 x 24 cm paper yellowed by time, stains and a small repaired tear on the upper right edge. In a modern mount 40.5 x 53 cm Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects. Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years. In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot. He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple. Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence. Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A carnival scene 21 x 16.5 cm Watercolor and brown ink on paper Signed lower right Period frame : 35 x 30 cm (lacks in...

Marching is a drawing in Pencil realize by Jacques Gruber in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.

VII prise de mon bureau is a wonderful original pencil drawing watercolored on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1914 by a French artist whose signature seems to be J. Denis. Title, ...