19th Century Figurative Paintings

The Flower Seller, a late 19th century figurative oil painting of a barefoot female figure in period dress standing outside of a doorway selling nos...

Girl in restaurant in Paris. 19th century, oil on wood, 46x37,5 cm Eduardo Léon Garrido (1856-1949) Eduardo León Garrido was born in Madrid in 1856. He falls within the Group of Spaniards in Paris, as he warns in his style, with clear influences of Impressionism, somewhat reminiscent of Manet. He was the eldest son of Luis Garrido Fernandez, an official at the Ministry of Finance. His father would have liked him to embrace an administrative career but Eduardo León moved towards the artistic career. Trained in the Escuela Superior de Madrid, he painted his first work « the theft of the Sabine women », at only eighteen years old. Then he entered the Studio of Vicente Palmaroli (1834-1896). He will always consider the latter as his true teacher. In 1875, at the age of 19, he arrived in Paris to continue his studies with a scholarship from the city of Madrid. The same year he exhibited for the first time at the Salon where he presented a « Saint Jerome ». Very quickly he appears to be noticed by the famous merchant of the Rue Chaptal, Adolphe Goupil, for who he worked a few years. Notice that Vincent van Gogh worked for Goupil & Cie from 1869 till 1876 (his brother Theo entered in 1873. From 1876 on Garrido exhibits portraits and stylish, contemporary scenes. Catalogues indicates that he changed his dealer for the gallery Borniche around 1880. During the years 1882-1894 he did not expose anymore at the Salon (except once, in 1887, with the portrait of his friend, the painter Bréauté) . However, he painted a lot to feed the gallery of his dealer and a few galleries in Madrid. During that period he had also some student : Anne Blanche Dillaye (1851-1931), the american painter, studied with him from 1885 till 1887. From 1892 onwards it is the merchant Félix Gérard (one of the first dealers of work by Manet and Courbet), of the Rue Lafitte, which concludes with him an exclusive contract. He probably imposed to the artist to paint a different style. This sealed a radical departure from his 1880-1890 period, during which he painted the streets of Paris, café terraces, newspaper kiosks, and was likened to very fashionable Belle-Époque artists. From 1892 onwards, Garrido painted almost solely gallant scenes in the 18th century style, in keeping with current tastes and clients’ demands. Meanwhile, Garrido left Paris. In 1888 he established a studio on the banks of the Marne at La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire (Val-de-Marne near Paris). He married there in 1892 one of its models, Leonie Beck, and in 1893 their first child, Louis- Edouard, was born. He is quickly integrated into local life and became an art teacher in the Philotechnic Association of La Varenne. From 1895 onwards he presented new works at the Salon des Artistes Français and in 1914, he obtained the French citizenship, while two of his son went into battle (World War I). He continued painting, mainly landscapes, portraits of family members (children, granddaughter Odile born in 1923) and flowers. At the end of his life and because of poor eyesight he painted exclusively flower bouquets. In 1939, Eduardo León and his wife Leonie arrive at Caen. They settled with their son, Louis- Edouard, who resided there. Eduardo Leon Garrido died there in 1949. He is buried in the family burial at the cemetery Venoix in Caen. Some of his paintings can be seen in the Museo del Prado (Madrid), the Museo Carmen Thyssen (Málaga), the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and private collections such as the Bellver Collection in Sevilla. In the Musée Charles Léandre...

John George Brown American impressionist street scene oil painting. The painting is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and is ...

Wonderful mid 19th Century painting of a stable's interior with two horses, stable hand, two spaniels, a rooster and ducks from a follower of John Frederick Herring, Sr. (British, 17...

Wonderful watercolor of early Avalon, Santa Catalina Island by Guy Bedford (American, 1866-1916), 1898. Signed, titled and dated lower left corner. Cond...

Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1880. Titled with inscription, verso, on old backing, ''Taverne Pausset', grands boulevards a Paris". A fine and detailed, cabinet-size oil painting showing an elegant Parisian cafe and bar, the interior lit by luminous, floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows and filled with fashionably-dressed patrons drinking and socializing beneath a haze of pipe and cigar smoke. A minor, period masterpiece, providing an animated view of the city's fin-de-siècle nightlife, and characterised by finely observed and fully-realized figures showing an unusual degree of both social commentary and psychological penetration. Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied with Jules Lefebvre and, subsequently, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer under Gustave Boulanger. In 1880, Dambourgez commenced exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. Throughout the 1880's, he exhibited frequently and with success at the major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave all illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez was awarded an honorable distinction by the Salon in 1888, and an honorable mention in 1891. In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff recommended his painting, 'A Cheese Shop', for inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...

Excellent quality Oil Sketch of a French boat yard, with men in a wood, saw pit in a harbor landscape. The elder brother of painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Jacques-Eugène enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Paul Delaroche. He had a notable career at the Paris Salon from 1841 to 1882. Vincent van Gogh was a fan of Feyen and describes him as, "one of the few painters who pictures intimate modern life as it really is, and does not turn it into fashion plates." He set up a studio and settled in summer in the town of Cancale. He spent several months every year painting views of Cancale, the oyster-picking Cancalaises, and the bay of Mont Saint-Michel, and his paintings still enjoy steady fame. This sketch came from a collection of sketches...

Figure in Landscape French School, circa 1890's follower of Camille Pissarro (Danish/ French 1830-1903) dated 'Mai 1890' to the lower right corner. oil painting on canvas, framed ca...

Marguerite AROSA (1850-1903), French "Baigneuse" (Bather) Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 66 1/5" high x 50" wide Frame: 74 1/5" high x 57 1/2" wide This painting was e...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1900. Title: Portrait of a seated man wearing a hat, with a mustache. The work is painted 'en grissaille' deliberately by the artist. Medium: o...

Born in Valencia, Spain in 1845, 19th century impressionist Vicente García de Paredes studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, in Madr...

A fine watercolor of a young girl in the woods surrounded by flowers by British American artist John George Brown (1831-1913). Brown was born in Dur...

Wonderful Austrian landscape with Church on a mountain . Hermann Reisz Austrian (1865-1920)Reisz was a well-regarded 19th century Austrian landscape...

Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1890. A fine and detailed, late-nineteenth century view of a counter of the bustling cheese market...

Pio Joris (Rome, 1843-1922). The Via Flaminia, a Sunday morning," 1869, with frame 160 x 83 cm. Signed P. Joris, Pio Joris attended the Istituto di Belle Arti in Rome and in 1861 he enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca, where he remained for just a year. On a visit to the 1st Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti of Florence in 1861 he was attracted by the naturalistic works from the Naples school. He came into contact with Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi during a trip to Capri, Sorrento and Naples in 1866. In Rome, he kept company with Mariano Fortuny, whose painting, with its pleasant, captivating luministic effects, made a very strong impression on Joris. That was how he developed his own very personal artistic language, which went on to bring him remarkable commercial success on an international scale, helped by his collaboration with Paris art dealer...

Roman Girl At Fountain After Leon Bonnat by L. Luige c.1876 Original oil on canvas This is a period copy of the painting by Leon Bonnat (the original wa...

Dated, signed, and inscribed lower left: 1876 WILL. • H • LOW MONTIGNY sur Loing

Gold Country, a rustic figurative landscape of early California pioneers by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Excellent workmanship and ...

Landscape, sunset, romance Giovanni Colmo (Torino, 13 maggio 1867 – Torino, 24 aprile 1947) Framed cm. 30 x 31 no frame cm. 11 x 14

Artist/ School: Mariano Alonzo-Perez (1857-1930) Spanish, signed and inscribed. Title: La Chasse aux Papillons Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: 23.5 x 12 inc...

This intimate work by Camille Pissarro represents a period of significance for the Impressionist master. The early 1880s was a time of great experimentation for the artist, after he spent much of the preceding decade devoted to landscape painting. Shifting focus, he embarked on a series of works in a range of media dedicated to the human figure - particularly peasant women. In watercolor, gouache, pastel, and print, Pissarro captured the rural female and the minute moments of domestic life. Depicting a peasant woman tying her scarf, Paysanne Nouant son Foulard displays the harmony of color and composition that typifies his work of the 1880s. Composed of a symphony of color and strokes of paint, the work exemplifies the plein air technique of Pissarro's best Impressionist canvases. A true master of his art, no other artist successfully chronicled rural peasant life quite like Pissarro. Counted among the most respected artists of the 19th century and widely considered the father of Impressionism, Pissarro’s works experienced a surge in interest in the early 2000s. This is reflected in Pissarro’s new auction record of over $32.1 million, set at a 2014 Sotheby’s auction in London, which far surpassed his previous record of $14.6 million. Born in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in Paris at the age of 11, where he first displayed a talent for drawing. In 1855, having convinced his parents of his determination to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family shipping business, he returned to Paris where he studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Pissarro moved to England. With Monet, he painted a series of landscapes around South-East London and studied English landscape painters in the museums. When he returned home to Louveciennes a year later, Camille discovered that all but 40 of the 1500 paintings he had left there - almost 20 years of work - had been vandalized. In 1872, Camille settled in Pontoise where he remained for the next 10 years, gathering a close circle of friends around him. Gauguin was among the many artists to visit him there and Cézanne, who lived nearby, came for long periods to work and learn. In 1874, Pissarro participated in the first Impressionist exhibition...

Oil on panel attributed to Eugen Boudin representing a Norman navy

Arthur George Collins American, b.1866 Biskra Algeria Oil on canvas Signed and dated Biskra, 1893 26 ½ by 32 ½ in. W/frame 32 ½ by 38 ½ in. Arthur studied at the Julien Academy, P...

Lovely painting by the artist. Several small areas of inpainting mostly around the top and edges, visible under black light only. Several small areas of paint loss in upper center (s...

The Ballet Dancers French School, circa 1890 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 42cm x 34cm framed: 53cm x 46cm provenance: private collection, France Beautiful antique French ...

Gorgeous late 19th Century Russian landscape with stream in the shade by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Sergeev (Nikolai Alexandrovich Sergeyev ...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in. W/frame 32 by 28 in. Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of America...

This artwork "Flowers in a Vase and Violin" 1989 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Swiss artist Dan Rubinstein, born 1940. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...

Wonderful turn of the century oil portrait of old civil war soldier circa 1900, by an unknown artist. Soldier is depicted wearing the Medal of Honor...

This painting “Afternoon Tea”' shows the influence of Auguste Renoir, with whom Abel Faivre had been close friends since about 1893. Oil on can...

Antique American Impressionist painting by Hugh Ditzler (1871-1949) dated 1893. Painting is an original oil on canvas depicting the 1893 Columbian Exposit...

Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot (French, 1856-1914) Les Vendages (The grape harvesters) Oil on canvas 24.1/2 X 41.1/8in. (including frame) Provenance : Girardot Family Collection Georges Girardot was trained by the artist Albert Maignan...

Wonderful turn of century English School landscape with swans in park setting, by an unknown artist, c.1900. Signed with initials "L. G" lower left corner. Presented in rustic gilt t...

Beveled wood painting depicting a landscape of river banks with lavandieres by a painter from Spain. He works in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français Very good co...

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...

Robert Julius Beyschlag (Germany, 1838-1903) mother and child oil painting, circa 1870 Charming original oil painting by listed 19th ce...

ULPIANO CHECA Spanish, 1860 - 1916 VENICE CANAL signed & located "U. Checa" Venezia (lower left) Also dedicated: "A Marguerite Pinédo affectueusement" ...

Large, decorative oil painting in impressionist style. Illegible signed. Dated 1897. "Serious encounter" In places color flaking. Unframed.

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a night time scene in a village. Signed lower right and dated 1895 verso. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sour...

J.E. KARNEC, born in 1865 (in Austria after GERALD SCHURR), died in 1934. Painter of landscapes, seascapes, port landscapes, water landscapes. "Orientalist trend" (according to BENEZ...

Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour (June 29, 1838 - November 29, 1910) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was known for his art of war. Berne-Bellecour was born on June ...

Oil on panel attributed to Eugen Boudin representing a Norman navy

Delbert Coombs (1850 - 1938) Maine Artist Image Size: 12 x 9 Frame Size: 15 x 12 Medium: Oil Dated: 1897 "The Little Fisherman" Biography Delbert Coombs (1850 - 1938) Delbert Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850. Although primarily self-taught, Coombs took painting lessons from Scott Leighton...

Large, enticing and very decorative painting. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. G.A. Portrait of a pretty lady. Beautiful painting in impressionist style. Frame partially damaged. Dimensions about: With frame 84.5 cm x 97 cm Without frame 55.5 cm x 68 cm The veiled lady.

Twin Calves, San Rafael looking to Mt. Tamalpais -Turn of the Century Landscape by Gordon Harrower Coutts Charming and significant turn of the century landscape painting of two calv...

Alfred Dehodencq (French, 1822 – 1882) Figures in the jardin du Luxembourg, Paris Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1871 (lower right) 20 x 31.1/4in. (51 x 79.5cm.) Provenance: Sale, Mi...

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1875 by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The piece depicts a woman and girl pushing a cart filled with flowers on a track between walled gardens on a bright summer's day. Signature: Signed and lower left Dimensions: Framed: 15"x19" Unframed: 10"x14" Provenance: Private French collection Victor Vignon's mother has been incorrectly identified as the writer Claude Vignon...

Signed orientalist landscape oil on canvas circa 1875 by French impressionist painter Felix Francois Georges Philbert Ziem. The work depicts the Santa Maria della Salue - an important Roman Catholic church - which stands on The Grand Canal in Venice. In the distance the Campanile can be seen on the far left hand side of the canal. Gondola's can be seen travelling down the blue water of the vast canal. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 33"x39" Unframed: 26"x32" Provenance: This work appears under reference 1236 in Pierre Miquel's catalogue raisonne of Felix Ziem. This work was exhibited at the American Art Association in New York - 1917 The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Association Felix Ziem (Mr. David Pluskwa & Mr. Ary Jan) and will be included in the forthcoming update to the catalogue raisonne of Felix Ziem. A certificate of authenticity from the Association Felix Ziem is available on request. Private collection United States. Félix Ziem's father was a Croat who settled in Bourgogne in 1814, and his mother was from the same region. He studied at the École d'Architecture et des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, which had been founded and was run by the painter Anatole Devosge, a pupil of David. He received a second prize in drawing and architecture in 1839. In 1841, after a long journey on foot, he settled in Nice, where he began to receive commissions from the city's bourgeoisie. From 1842, he travelled in Italy, visiting Rome, before discovering Venice, which became his second home. Between 1845 to 1892 he visited Venice regularly, often for several months in the year; he worked from his boat, which served as his studio as well as his living quarters. Ziem was a complete painter, at ease in portraits, still-lifes, flower painting and genre scenes, of both history and contemporary subjects. Nevertheless, he is most known for his landscapes. His body of work includes numerous watercolours. In his drawings, and especially in his travel journals, while showing his taste by his selection and composition of subjects, he left a precious testament of his times. After Guardi and Canaletto, he affirmed a new vision of Venice...

Signed figurative oil on board circa 1890 by French Nabis school painter Edouard Vuillard. The work depicts two seated ladies dressed in black with grey pinafores enjoying coffee together. Illustrated in the Catalogue Raisonne of Edouard Vuillard by Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval - Volume I, Page 229 - Reference IV-7 This striking work dates to between 1890 and 1891 which was without doubt Vuillard’s greatest decade as an artist. At this time the painter was working with the group of artist known as "Les Nabis" which included Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier and Auguste Cazalis. The group played a large part in the transition from impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of modernism. They believed that a work of art was not a depiction of nature, but a synthesis of metaphors and symbols created by the artist. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 19.25"x20.25" Unframed: 9.25"x10.25" Provenance: Renou et Poyet - Paris Roland, Browse & Delbanco - London (labels verso) c. 1955 The collection of Sir Alec Guinness Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva - 1972 Nichido Gallery - Tokyo 1972 Private collection - Japan Christie's London - Impressionist & Modern Art - June 2016 Édouard Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he made friends with Maurice Denis, Lugné-Poe, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, later his brother-in-law. He studied in Maillart’s studio; for six weeks came under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and later under William Bouguereau and Robert at the Académie Julian, where he became closely linked with the Nabis group (from the Hebrew word for ‘prophet’). He met Marcel Proust in 1902. From 1908, he taught at the Académie Ranson. In 1937, he was elected member of the Institute. At first, Vuillard painted small subjects, disciplined and proficient, qualities for which the prestigious École Française was famous. His earliest still-lifes (1888) are astonishing in their decisiveness and subtlety. His empathy for the object had already compelled him to soften its appearance; the object, which, by virtue of its bright or glossy presence, remained the nonego and the ‘thing represented’ for so many others. ‘Intimacy’ developed immediately between the painter and this modest environment; inhabiting it every day enabled him to celebrate its splendour, and it was to remain his favourite environment. But he was already alternating between small portraits and still-lifes, which gained recognition because of their natural qualities and dignity of tone: a rare combination in a beginner. About 1890, influenced indirectly by Paul Gauguin, all the certainties which the self-styled Nabis painters had contented themselves with suddenly collapsed. Everything was called into question again: both the linear layout of the picture and its colour scheme; the choice of subject and its material aspect; its manufacture and its purpose. Vuillard’s paintings at that time show surprising, bold innovations and an arbitrary power, which one would expect 15 or 20 years later at the height of the Fauvist period. The preoccupation with an internal geometry set them apart from earlier studies. From then on, the paintings were based on forms, lines, and colours. Vuillard made concessions. He produced a portrait or interior with its furniture and its wallpapers, in which the family inhabiting it, evolves. Treated with flat areas of colour and solid shades of ochres, reds, blues, and saffron yellow, without modulation, they seem to prefigure certain paintings by Henri Matisse and Roger de La Fresnaye. In 1891, Vuillard painted an Elegant Lady, a silhouette seen from the back; a long vertical shape starting from the hair decorated with brown feathers; there is a kind of pink cloak, the tight and never-ending black skirt, erect in front of a half-open, bright orange door in a green wall, from where the light of another vertical shape emerges, which is bright yellow, and is reflected in red on the parquet at the feet of the elegant lady. This painting meets his concerns about the actual moment of creating ‘harmonies corresponding to our feeling’, and by virtue of its almost geometric structure, its drawing entirely free of detail, its light effects and colour harmonies, very much prefigures aspects of the future Abstraction movement and is oddly reminiscent of the final period of Nicolas de Staël. All too often, Vuillard is only admired in his role as the harmonist, the serene contemplator who combines an exquisite sense of nuance, rhythms, and values with the most acute observation. These singular investigations, these three-dimensional meditations including a table, a folding metal cot...

Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857-1927) A Family Outing Signed Lower Left 12 x 16 inches 18 x 22 inches framed A painter most remembered most for his beach scenes of carefree at...

Signed and dated riverscape oil on canvas circa 1870 by Dutch impressionist painter Johan Barthold Jongkind. The work depicts boats sailing on the Dordrecht canal in the Netherlands....

Signed, titled and dated oil on panel landscape by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. The work depicts sailing boats anchored at a port in Venice, Italy. The tall masts of t...

Frederick Carl Gottwald (1858-1941) Scissor Grinder, c. 1897 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 24 x 18 inches 28.5 x 22.5 inches, framed Exhibited: Boston, Massachusetts Art Exhibit, ...

Signed and titled oil on board circa 1890 by American impressionist painter William Baptiste Baird. The piece depicts boats sailing and moored on the River Seine in Paris, France. Th...

'Wading in the River' by Benjamin Williams Leader. A 19th century landscape painting of figures and baby wading in a river. Surrounded by lush greenery. This highly detailed painting...

Signed and dated riverscape oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Louis Aime Japy. The work depicts two fisherman in a small punt in a river at sunset. The clouds in the sky ...

‘Between Us’ is an Impressionist Figurative painting by Robert Gemmell Hutchison R.S.A. It is highly evocative of the Scottish Coast, a hopeful and optimistic oil painting. Hutchinson was born in Edinburgh in 1855 the first son of a brass-founder. After first training as a seal-engraver he was encouraged to pursue oil painting and trained under James Campbell Noble at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. He set up his own studio at 1 India Buildings (at the top of Victoria Street...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1890, circle of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1864-1901) Title: Elegant Figures dressed for an evening out, typical of the Belle Epoque Styl...