Iku Nagai

Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai

Island Of Majorca Cathedral of Santa Maria of Palma by Antonio M. Silva Watercolor of the Basilica de Palma on Majorca by Antonio M. Silva (Portugal, 20th C.) Wide view of the villag...

California Lake Landscape in Watercolor on Paper Serene landscape by Donna N. Schuster (American, 1883-1953). The viewer stands at the edge of a lake, under a few trees. At the far ...

Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...

Through The Trees - Original Watercolor on Paper Original watercolor painting depicting a grove of vibrant green trees by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-1992). Presented in a lig...

Signed lower left, 'Bonnaure' for Alain Bonnaure (French, born 1941) and painted circa 1995. When he was a young artist, Alain Bonnaure's work was purchased by the renowned French p...

Artist: Yohanan Simon (1905-1976) Title: Landscape Medium: Gouache on paper laid to card Date: 1962 Signature: Signed and dated in Hebrew Paper Size: 16.75 x 21 inches Frame Size: 24...

A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...

We would like to thank Madame Beck-Saiello for confirming the autograph nature of this drawing after an in-person examination. It was probably during an excursion in the countryside near Avignon that Claude-Joseph Vernet executed this drawing, enhanced with pen and brown ink, depicting a mansion on a hilltop overlooking a small village with geometric shapes. 1. Joseph Vernet, a painter influenced by Italy Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like. He moved to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), a leading history painter in Avignon, and then worked with Jacques Viali (active 1681-1745), a decorative, landscape, and marine painter in Aix-en-Provence. Vernet's first recorded paintings were decorative overdoors executed in 1731 in the Aix townhouse of the marquise de Simiane. In 1734, Joseph de Seytres, marquis de Caumont, a leading amateur in Avignon, sponsored Vernet to make a study trip to Italy to complete his artistic education and to draw antiquities for his patron. As Avignon was a papal territory in Vernet's day, he also had a number of useful introductions among influential churchmen when he arrived in Rome. Vernet was soon at home in the French community there, and he was encouraged by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), director of the Académie de France in Rome, even though the young painter had no official affiliation with the royal institution. He likely entered the studio of the French marine painter Adrien Manglard...