Nino Bertocchi

Mountain Landscape 1932

1932

Oil on Canvas. Central European School of the 19th century. The large scene is set at the banks of a river, which flows near a village and is crossed by a small wooden bridge. On the...

Oil on Canvas. Flemish school of the seventeenth century. On the back is a collectible cartouche. In a hilly landscape of rocks and patches of trees, overlooking a small village on t...

Oil on Canvas. Signed in lower left hand corner. The Roman-born artist Caesar Maggi established himself as a Divisionist landscape painter, depicting Engadine and Aosta Valley alpi...

Oil on Canvas. Italian school of the late 1700s-early 1800s. The romantic-taste landscape sees a river flowing between rocky banks topped by leafy trees; on the bank, in the left for...

Naturalistic fall landscape with beautiful green hues. There is a small man in the foreground of the painting. The work is framed in a painted wooden frame with a red, slanted greek key pattern. The artists' name is signed on a gold plate in the bottom center of the frame. Dimensions without Frame: H 12.5 in x W 15.5 in. Artist Biography: From Switzerland, he became noted for his paintings of Alpine mountains, although he also painted scenes from his travels in Germany and especially Italy. He studied with landscape painter, Francois Diday, and by 1835, had sold a landscape to the museum in Bern. He also exhibited with the Paris Salons beginning in the late 1830s. Calame lived most of his life in Geneva, but in 1863, he moved to the French Riviera for health reasons. His composition method was often placing a large clump of trees at one side of the painting and "a sharply receding diagonal leads away from it to a view, often of mountains in the far distance." (83) It was a motif that had much appeal to American collectors of that era, and one of his landscapes, a part of the bequest of James Suydam...

Oil on wooden panel realized by Fausta Settimj in 1930s. Hand signed and titled in pen on verso. Good condition.

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade: “Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...

Jean Bousquet (French, 1912-1996), "General Pickering Against U.S.S Achilles", Abstract Seascape, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40, 1975 Colors: Blue, White, Brown, Red, Yellow