Charles Emmanuel Jodelet

French 19th century style impressionist painting - Ballet - Dance Dancers Degas

17th century Dutch Old Master oil painting "The delighted Smoker" This painting is a very enigmatic one with an equally thrilling story. We acquired this work some time ago as attri...

19th century impressionist painting, capturing a beautiful day in the countryside. A young girl can be seen standing in front of her flock in the lush and beautiful countryside. A s...

Lovely 19th century romantic cityscape painting of Venice With vibrant colors and swift brushstrokes, the artist of the present painting wonderfully captured a large boat departing ...

Romantic painting depicting a peaceful get-together in a park by Rudolf Alfred Höger The elegantly dressed people are indulging in a delicious "al fresco" picnic on green hill on a ...

19th century French oil painting depicting a Fisherman returning home in a peaceful countryside landscape This lovely painting depicts a charming French countryside landscape at dus...

"Portrait of Emperor Rudolph of Austria (1557-1619)" circle or studio of Josef Heinz the Elder Emperor Rudolph II, born in 1552, was a visionary ruler whose reign as the Holy Roman ...

A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...

This picture symbolizes femininity. Femininity is harmony, naturalness and sensuality.

Very Impressive French Impressionist figure study of a Ballerina seated in an interior. A very decorative and very desirable oil on canvas dating from the early 1900's The painting...

The Piano Lesson by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018) signed lower corner dated 1999 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 43.5 x 33.5 inches ...

Wonderful mid century portrait of woman named Charlotte by Irinia Belotelkin Roublon (Russian/American, 1913 - 2009), circa 1960. Signed lower right corner and on verso. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 11"W. Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus. Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements. After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States. Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties. From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia. In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff. Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija...

Signed lower right: “Irwin D. Hoffman”.