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French school of the first half of the 19th century Oil on canvas 45.5 x 60 cm (59.5 x 74 cm with frame) Beautiful 19th century carved and gilded wooden frame Good condition (a few r...

Charles DOUSSAULT 1814 - 1880 Oil on canvas 32.5 cm x 24.5 cm (52 x 41 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "Ch. Doussault / 1836" Very beautiful period frame in gilded wood Charles Doussault was an orientalist painter-traveler. He made a portrait of Sultan Abdulmecid in 1846 and numerous paintings and drawings from Romania, Syria and the Holy Land. He studied with Ingres and Eugène Devéria before becoming the collaborator of the Devéria brothers. He then exhibited at the Paris Salon mainly in the 1830s to 1850s, first troubadour subjects before leaving and travelling first to Romania and then to the Middle East in 1844, to Turkey, to Damascus and to the Holy Land from where he brought back subjects for oils and watercolors which made him famous in Paris in the 1840s and 1850s. Our painting dates from his first period, precisely 1836. It was painted when Charles Doussault was still young and working as a collaborator of the Devéria brothers . It may be a portrait of an actress in costume in an opera or theater play like Achille Devéria did many of them (Marie Dorval, Elisa Rachel, Fanny Elssler...

Victor CARRE-SOUBIRAN Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), 18.. – 1897 Oil on canvas 76 x 56 cm (94 x 76 cm with frame) Signed lower left “Carré-Soubiran” Painting exhibited at the Salon des...

Benjamin VAUTIER (Attributed to) Morges (Switzerland), 1829 – Dusseldörf, 1898 Oil on canvas 43 x 37 cm (58 x 52 cm with the frame) Beautiful 19th century frame in carved and gilded ...

Nordic school of the 18th century Oil on panel on wood 27 cm x 33 cm (42 x 51 cm with the frame) Old frame in carved and gilded wood Good condition even ...

Pierre Etienne LESUEUR (Active between 1791 and 1810) Oil on panel 27 x 38.5 cm (42 x 53 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right "E. LESUEUR / 1790" Very beautiful early 19th...

Giuseppe-Maria CRESPI (1665, Bologna - 1747), circle of Dressmakers surprised at work Oil on canvas H. 35 cm; L. 23 cm This small painting, charming and of very good quality, is representative of Italian genre painting...

Circle of Fulchran Jean HARRIET (Paris, 1776 – Rome, 1805) Saul asks the pythonisse of Andor to call the ghost of Samuel Oil on canvas 31 x 42 cm Around 1800 The episode is taken ...

Françoise Juvin - Small bouquet of buttercups Reference number FJ106 Framed with a black wood floated frame. 24,5 x 31,5 cm frame included (19 x 26 cm ...

A large and elegant still life with grapes and pears on a table which also features a pristine white bowl and a candle stick. Painted with simplicity, clarity of structure, and restrained emotion, this is a superb modernist work by Jean Chauffrey (1911-) dating from circa 1950. At the time, Chauffrey had a contract with mythical Paris art dealers...

Reference number F16 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame 40 x 33 cm This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to m...

Reference number F186b Framed with a natural oak floated frame 33 x 35 cm frame included (28 x 30 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a boar...