Armand FOUQUET

Paris View Early 20th Century - Flower Banks and Conciergerie

Circa 1930

Eugène DESHAYES (1868 – 1939) View from Algéria Coast Oil on canvas signed low right Frame gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 82 X 116 cm Dim frame : 107 X 141 cm DESHAYES Eugène François...

RIVES Antony (19th Century) Landscapes with characters in pair Two Oils on wood panels signed lowright and left Annotation on the back : " Banks of the Aude River near Carcassonne in August 1904" Stamp from Senelier, famous hardware dealer settled in Paris Framed by Gault (Paris) DIm wood panel (each) : 24 X 33 cm Dim frame : 38 X 47 cm RIVES Antony (19th Century) French 19th Century born in Carcassonne Painter of Landscape Antony Rives was a pupil of Jean Jalabert and Adolphe Yvon...

'Plaines de la Midjeda Blida'. Oil sketch on cardboard. Signed and titled on the back. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in pre...

Pluie a Venice is painted in Hambourg's preferred palette of muted blue-green, grey, and gold with splashes of ruby red, deep blue, and emerald green. The soft colors work well for beach scenes and rainy days such as the ones portrayed in this painting. The impressionistic scene shows multiple pedestrians strolling down the boardwalk, shielding themselves from the rain with colorful umbrellas that provide pops of color and balance the overcast sky. The background contains a three-masted ship and Piazza San Marco's famous bell tower and Basilica. Hambourg uses the minimum number of brushstrokes necessary to portray ships, seagulls, buildings and people as well as reflections on the glistening sidewalk. The brushstrokes in the sky have an interesting texture that is controlled yet carefree and there is heavy impasto throughout. His portrayal is both realistic and romanticized. Hambourg was clearly influenced by the great Impressionist artists of earlier generations, perhaps none more than the one with a direct connection to his family. Hambourg's wife, Nicole Rachet, was born into a family with a large collection of works by Impressionist master Eugene Boudin. Rachet's grandfather was a contemporary and friend of Boudin's, and a collector of his work. In their later years, Hambourg and Rachet donated over 300 canvases by Boudin and other artists to the Eugene Boudin Museum in Honfleur, France. It was such a large and important gift that the collection bears...