Olivier Pichat

Amazone

Jean-Gabriel Domergue 1889-1962 French "Carina" Oil on panel Signed lower right Painting : 28 3/4" high x 23 5/8" wide Frame: 37 3/8" high x 32 1/4" wide Jean-Gabriel Domerg...

Paul Emile Perboyre 1826-1914 French Le Marechal Ney passant ses Troupes en Revue (The Marshall Ney reviewing his Troops) Oil on mahogany panel Signed l...

Louis Toffoli 1907-1999 French Les Femmes Orientales aux Corbeilles de Fruits, (titled on the reverse) Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas: 28 3/4" high x 36 1/4" wide Frame...

Emile Chepfer, 1876-1944, French Napoléon and his Marshals, Signed lower left Oil on board Emile CHEPFER: french painter, he was born in Nancy in 1876...

Georges Rochegrosse, 1859-1938, French Chez le Satrape de Susiane, 1891 Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas : 17 3/4" high x 22" wide Frame: 26 3/4" high x 31 1/2" wide Ge...

Delphin Enjorlas 1857-1945 French "Le Soir sur la Terrasse" Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 28 3/4" high x 23 5/8" wide Frame: 37 3/4" high x 42 7...

Provenance: with Leo Blumenreich and Julius Böhler, Munich, 1924 Dr. Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (1881-1963), San Antonio, Texas; by whom given to: Abraham M. Adler, New York, un...

Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...

A recent, large work by the masterful Giancarlo Impiglia, whose value has been steadily increasing. Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signa...

Hercules and Omphale Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm According to legend, Hercules had to make atonement and became a slave to the Lydian queen Omphale. When she found out who her slave was, she married him. Falling for his mistress and made effeminate by the luxury of court life, the former hero allowed himself to become the laughing stock of the court. He dressed in women's clothes, spun wool and did other women's work, whereas Omphale wore his lion's skin and carried a wooden club. When the time of punishment was over, the hero realised his delusion and left Omphale. So far, the painting could not be clearly assigned to an artist. Nevertheless, it impresses with its fluid and convincing painting, whose colourfulness and conception are reminiscent of the Prague School around Bartholomäus Spranger. This work follows an engraving and an etching made by Michel Dorigny in 1643 after a design by Simon Vouet. It shows the same scene but the print differs in minor details from the present painting (see e.g. the head of the lion) and the treatment of the faces seems to be painted more detailed and refined. So far there is no painting...

Isaac and Rebecca had two sons: the twins Esau and Jacob. Esau was the first-born, giving him the birthright. Among Jews the birthright gave the eldest son authority over the family,...

Venetian harbor scene with St Marks in the background oil on oak panel. Exceptional quality. Signed illegibly lower left. From an old Philadelphia collection.