Louis Gautier

"Le Trianon à Versailles, 1925" Louis Gautier (French, 1855-1947)

1925

La Vallée de la Seine Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, 1939 Signed l.l. 12.5 x 9.5 (16 x 13 framed) inches INV Nbr. 1939 This...

"Le Jardin à Vaux"  Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, circa 1920s Stamp of studio on reverse: INV Nbr. 823 9 1/2 x 12 (17 1/2 x 14 framed) inches Raymond Thibes...

"En Provence" Raymond Allègre (France, 1857-1933) Circa 1900 Oil on wood panel Signed lower left, countersigned and titled on the back 13 1/2 x 9 (30 3/4 x 25 1/8 frame) inches It'...

Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846 (Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846) François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887) Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame. Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher 6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches Provenance: Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot Paul Prouté André Watteau Charles Sadler Galerie Berès, Paris Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999 Literature: International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus. Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour. He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression. Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands. François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...

Signed impressionist landscape oil on panel circa 1872 by French painter Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine. The piece depicts a view of La Maison Blanche in Bas Meudon, France. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 13"x16" Unframed: 6"x9" Provenance: Galerie Bonnemaison, Paris. Their sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 April 1896, lot 39. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris. Van Harwingen, Paris. E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam. H.J. Ten Cate, The Hague. Arnold Cohen, Paris. Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London. MacConnal-Mason Gallery, London. Private collection, USA, by 1999. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York East, 2 November 1999, lot 54. Literature: R. & M. Schmit, Stanislas Lépine 1835-1892, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1993, p. 224, no. 565, illustrated. EXHIBITED Paris, Galerie Rosenberg, Lépine, 1906, no. 19. Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine was the pupil of Corot in Paris between 1860 and 1875. His first paintings hardly attracted attention. He would perhaps have remained unknown for a long time if Count Armand Doria, struck by the feeling visible in his landscapes, had not taken him under his protection with Adolphe Félix Cals...

An idyllic summer scene of a river glimpsed from a leafy river bank - more than likely the Seine as the artist lived and worked in Paris. Georges Moisaut (exhibiting early 20th Cent...

Landscape In July, dated 1892 - "Gift To A friend" by Georges PAUL-MANCEAU (1872-1955) Huge 19th Century French Impressionist summer landscape, oil on canvas by Georges Paul-Mance...

Up for sale is a stunning original large antique 19th-century oil painting on canvas that captures a glowing forest landscape at sunset, with fiery hues of orange, red, and gold stre...