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Huge Antique French Rococo Oil Painting Mythological Lovers in Landscape

c.1890

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's-1970's, signed lower left. Title: Surrealist view of a colorful lady standing before a classical city (Milan?) hazed in orange. Medium...

Pensive Thoughts by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 19.5 x 24 inches condition: overall very good, minor surface scuf...

The painting (with a Salvador Rosa-style gilded frame 88 x 116 cm) depicts a group of four children who are playing outside on a swinging seesaw; we are probably dealing with a prank, as can be seen by the satisfied expression of the child on the right at the expense of the one in the foreground, who seems to be supported by the others, perhaps because of the fear felt. They are dressed in the same way, with black or brown ankle boots and a kind of double-breasted jumpsuit with a rich lace collar reminiscent of the jabots of dames, blue for the one in the foreground, brick-colored for the other three. Children also look alike in the hair, typical of the period, and features, suggesting a kinship relationship. We find the same subject, for example, in Johann Zoffany...

Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to capture his eyes to that world with his painting. After starting his artistic ...