John Maler Collier

All Hallows' Eve - Pre-Raphaelite Oil, Figure in Interior by John Maler Collier

1895

Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1925 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family in a typical Breton kitchen scene. A lady is seated at the table while another slices a loaf of bread for a young girl. The view from the large window shows cottages in the distance and the last light of the day on the horizon as night falls. The light of an overhead oil burner illuminates the room. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 30"x25" Unframed: 26"x21" Provenance: This work has been examined and authenticated by Mme. Nicole Verdier and will appear in Tome IV of the catalogue raisonne. An accompanying certificate from Mme. Verdier is available upon request at a charge of 960 EUR. Private French collection Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy...

Signed, titled and dated 1921 figures in interior oil on canvas by Modernist painter Marcel Francois Leprin. This wonderful piece depicts a ball at the Moulin Rouge, a cabaret in Par...

A FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015. Literature: Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020. Exhibited: Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020. CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015. These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...

Unknown Artist (probably American, nineteenth century) Tavern Scene Oil on canvas, 15 x 12 inches Framed: 21 x 18 inches (approx.)