René Lelong

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1920

French school after 1890 The Knight's Farewell Oil on canvas 124 x 64 cm A very beautiful painting, romantic and very decorative, both monumental in its composition and touching in its subject, especially since it stands out in a tight frame. The knight's farewell to his beloved is represented on a background marked by naturalism with its meadow, its flowers, its wood, its river and its very beautiful colors. The painting is of the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, and he is certainly French as indicated by the mtamp of the canvas merchant on the back of the canvas (the Jules Chauvin house which was active at 33 rue du Dragon in Paris between 1895 and 1937). The style of our painting is romantic, even picturesque. The knight carries the "Reichsadler", the imperial eagle of the Holy Roman Empire and the lady a satchel with various signs including bear paw prints. The style is naturalistic and reminds of the English painters of the 1890s inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and Art Nouveau with religious and medieval themes and it is very close to nature with their settings of meadow, flowers and woods. The English art historian John Christian spoke of the last English Romantics in relation to these painters of the end of the century, Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer or John William Waterhouse. Those motifs are also found here, of the meadow, flowers, wood and river that we often see in Waterhouse's art in particular. As for the composition, that reminds in particular of the English woman painter of Austrian origin Marianne Stokes...

Anicet Charles Gabriel LEMONNIER (Attributed to) Rouen, 1743 – Paris, 1824 Venus and Adonis Oil on wood panel 24 x 20 cm (35 x 31 cm with frame) Very beautiful old frame in gilded wo...

Emile TRONCY Sétif (Algeria), 1859 - Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, 1943 Oil on canvas Around 1910 Signed lower left “E. Troncy” 42 x 33 cm (58 x 50 cm with the frame) Stamp of the mer...

French school of the 19th century (In the 1820s/1830s) Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (61 x 53 cm with frame) Unsigned Stamp from the collection of the merchant Jules Nicolas Moyon Beauti...

Portrait of a Woman in Purple - Parisian Art Deco Female Figurative Colorful and quirky art deco style figure painting of a seated Parisian woman dressed in light purple with decora...

Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940-) Title: At the Bar Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 84 in. x 84 in. (213.36 ...

Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940-) Title: Dance Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 84 in. x 84 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm)

Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, American (1940 - ) Title: Big Band Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 84 in. x 84 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm)