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Constant Félix SMITH Paris, 1788 – Paris, 1873 The Dream of Athalie Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (43 x 51 cm with the frame) Beautiful 19th century giltwood frame Good condition (but num...

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...

Study of Nicolas Poussin Landscape with a Man Washing His Feet in Oil on Board+ Small-scale study of Poussin's famous work by an unknown artist (early 20th Century). A man sits at t...

An impressive 19th-century copy of "The Little Fruit-Seller", after Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617 - 1682), by an unknown artist (1...

The painting is set in a precious gilded wooden frame, 72 x 59 cm. The measurements without the frame are 53 x 42 cm. Gazing up at the sky, eyes bright and wide open, mouth half-clo...

Antique Painting of 1600s Banquet with Figures Memento Mori after Giovanni Martinelli death comes to the banquet table-memento mori circa 1635. The oil on canvas painting (lined with...