Emile Vernon

French academic painting Allegory Spring Love Child Belle Epoque end 19th

French school after 1890 The knight's farewell Oil on canvas 124 x 64 cm This painting is at once monumental, moving but very cheerful at the same time. Because the main subject, the knight's farewell to his beloved, represented in a tight framing shows a very naturalistic background with its meadow, its flowers, its wood, its river and its very beautiful colors. The painter is from the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century, and undoubtedly French as indicated by the canvas merchant's mark on the back of the stretcher (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 Germanic Empire and the lady a bag with different 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 on religious and medieval themes and very close to nature with their decorations of meadows, flowers and wood. The English art historian John Christian spoke of the last English romantics about to these painters of the end of the century, Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer and John William Waterhouse. We recognize in our painting the naturalistic motifs of the meadow, flowers, woods and river that we often see in Waterhouse paintings. As regards the composition, one thinks in particular of the English woman painter of Austrian origin Marianne Stokes...

Jean Marcel POUSSART Sedan (Ardennes), 1891 – 1972 Oil on canvas 19 x 25 cm (26.5 x 32.5 cm with the frame) Signed upper left "JM Poussart" Nice oval frame from the 19th century Exce...

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...

French school around 1850 Oil on oil 41 x 33 cm (54 x 47 cm with frame) Inscription on the back “Lefevre” Based on the model's hairstyle, the portrait can be dated around 1850. The ...

Art nouveau painting of beautiful maiden and mischievous angels. An allegory of Spring. Watercolor painting by Alessandro Rontini (Italian born 1854). In beautiful custom floral deco...

French Porcelain Mythological Plaque of Venus and Cupid J. Pascault after 19th Century Romantic School, Early 20th Century The full-length portrait in a forest brook, depicting a win...

Artist/ School: Continental School (19th Century) Title: Cherubs In Garden Setting Medium: oil on canvas, framed in beautiful gilt frame. Frame...

Émile Munier, a French academic artist born in 1840, was renowned for his exquisite depictions of children and domestic scenes during the late 19th century. "Mom in Love," a masterpi...