Henri Jean Augustin LEYS

Farmyard study

Circle of Fulchran Jean HARRIET (Paris, 1776 – Rome, 1805) Saul asks the pythonisse of Andor to call the ghost of Samuel Oil on canvas 31 x 42 cm Around 1800 The episode is taken ...

Alexis Pierre MILON (Rouen, 1784 - After 1858) View of one of the aisles of the apse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 50.5 x 34.5 cm 1838 Exhibi...

Charles Zacharie LANDELLE (Laval, 1821 – Chennevières/Marne, 1908) Portrait of a child with blue eyes Oil on canvas Monogrammed and dated lower l...

Camille METRA or METRA-HUBBARD (XIX - XX) The Thule King's Cup Oil on canvas Signed lower right and dated 1896. 113,5 x 146 cm Presentation at Union Exhibition of Women Painters and Sculptors 1896 under number 627 Figure painter and pastelist. She exhibited two works at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1895 under her maiden name METRA and implemented in 1896 in the same Salon as METRA-HUBBARD. Effectively, she married Monsieur Gustave Hubbard, Deputy of Seine et Oise, August 14, 1895. She was a member of the Union of Women Painters and regularly exhibited at the annual exhibition of 1891 to 1911 and she was repeatedly remarked. This painting refers to a poem published in 1782 by Goethe and resume it widely in his Faust (Part 1, 2759-82 lines). This poem will go to the full mode romantic nineteenth century by various translations of which the best known are Gérard de Nerval (1827) and later Louise Ackermann (1863). Franz Schubert...

Alexandre Jean-Baptiste THEUVENOT (Port-sur-Saône, 1834 – Paris, 1882) Red-breasted Merganser Oil on canvas Signed at the bottom 78 x 56 cm Born in 1884 in Port-sur-Saône (Haute-S...

Aimée BRUNE-PAGES (Paris, 1803 – Paris, 1866) The Bravo Oil on canvas Signed lower left 54 x 46 cm 1832 Exhibitions: Paris Salon of 1833 under number 1829 Madame Brune, born Aimé...

Pascal Vinardel was born on April 29, 1951 in Casablanca, Morocco, to brillant cultured parents, his father a lawyer and magistrate and his mother a school teacher. Both parents infl...

Giuseppe-Maria CRESPI (1665, Bologna - 1747), circle of Dressmakers surprised at work Oil on canvas H. 35 cm; L. 23 cm This small painting, charming and of very good quality, is representative of Italian genre painting...

Reference number F355 Framed with a ebony color floated frame 41 x 60 cm frame included (27 x 46 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a board. Stamp of the signature in...

Reference number F356 Framed with an ebony color wood floated frame. 61 x 44 cm frame included (41 x 24 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a board and placed in a mad...

Reference number F186b Framed with a natural oak floated frame 33 x 35 cm frame included (28 x 30 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a boar...

Pierre Coquet, Still life with a blue armchair, Reference number F468 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 43 x 46 cm frame included (38 x 41 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is laid on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. Stamp of the signature in the bottom right Still lives are one of Pierre favourite subjects. Always in a very quiet atmosphere, with simple objects or alive nature. Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back) Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin. He won a prize in 1945 and joined a movement that wanted to be outside of any school whose name ends with “ism”, (like impressionism, cubism…) between figuration and the renaissance of Abstract Art, bringing together young generations under thirty and eager not to submit to any technique. The “Sanzism” (literally without « ism ») will bring together, among others, painters: James Bansac, Roger Bravard, André Chaix, Jean Mélinand, Paul Clair, André Cottavoz, Pierre Doye, Jean Fusaro, Jacques Truphémus, André Lauran...