Victor Alfred Paul Vignon

Village Gossips

c.1880

Signed and titled impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by French painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a view of Place Sainte-Ame, Douai in the north of France. It is aut...

Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1890 by French impressionist painter Luigi Loir. The piece depicts people at the Quai d'Orsay, situated on the left bank of the River Seine in Paris, France on what looks to be a cold winter day in the city. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 20"x16.5" Unframed: 13"x9.5" Provenance: Private French collection Blanchet & Associes - Paris He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1865 with a Landscape at Villiers-sur-Seine which brought him a certain amount of recognition. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Français. Obtaining a third-place medal in 1879, and a second-place medal and a gold medal in 1889 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. He was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur in 1898. Born in Austria to French parents who served the exiled French Bourbon royal family, Luigi Aloys-François-Joseph Loir moved with his family and the Bourbons to the Duchy of Parma in 1847. In 1860 his family returned to Paris following the expulsion of the Bourbons from Parma. But Luigi remained in the city, having enrolled, at the young age of eight, at the Accademia de Belle Arti. He eventually rejoined his family in Paris in 1863. There he studied with the decorative painter and set designer Jean Pastelot, making his Salon debut in 1865. Loir painted mainly views of Paris, in all seasons and at different times of the day or night. Loir was the Paris painter par excellence, capturing and expressing all aspects of the life of the city at all hours of the day and night. He may be criticised for excessive attention to the process, but his invaluable powers of observation are undeniable. Apart from those of his canvases which are in museum collections, his best-known works include: Preparations for the Fun Fair (acquired for the Salle d...

Signed and titled oil on canvas landscape circa 1910 by French Impressionist painter Marie Duhem. The work depicts a gated garden surrounded by bushes and trees and a tall tree in the centre. There are stars in the dark blue night's sky and the glow of the moon can be seen low behind the bare trees. Signature: Signed lower right/further signed and titled on original label Dimensions: Framed: 34"x29" Unframed: 26"x21" Provenance: The collection of the painter's family Marie Duhem, was born in Guemps on March 18, 1871 and died in Douai on July 9, 1918. Marie Duhem's parents ran a lace factory. From her childhood, she became familiar with the work of model designers. She becomes the student of the painter Adrien Demont...

Oil on paper laid on canvas. Signed & dated 1899 lower right. This work is included in Tome II of the Catalogue Raisonne by Denise Bazetoux- Ref: 159 This work is a plein air stud...

A stunning large oil on canvas circa 1900 by French painter Ferdinand Deconchy. The work depicts two seamstresses dressed in blue blouses and skirts...

Wonderful figures in night landscape oil on canvas circa 1904 by French impressionist painter and illustrator Andre Devambez. The piece depicts demonstr...

Impressionist American seascape, oil painting by George Renouard. Inscribed on reverse "1st Chapter-Genesis by Renouard". Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Original frame. Measures:...

Oil on linen canvas - Water lily, Plant, Water, Goldfish Work Title : Bassin (EN : Water Basin) Artist : Raphaël Renaud (French artist, Born in 1974, li...

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil on Canvas. Artist : Gabriel Riesnert Subject : En allant au bord de la mer (Title), (EN : On...

Richly-colored and vibrant Edwardian Beach Scene, British oil painting on canvas in impressionist style, presented in contemporary gold frame. The oil paint is raised and textured, lifting the beach sands, sea, sky and dresses from the canvas. Gathering in Edwardian period costuming looks out over the sands to the sea and clouds, with distant sailboats and children playing in the waves. This is a delightful contemporary painting, unsigned, but original oil dating to the 20th century. Framers tags verso from Oxford and Glasgow. In very good condition, with a few minor chips on the gold frame, but otherwise the painting is bright and beautiful. Provenance to gallery in the United Kingdom, imported by Saltire Gallerie...

'Picking Blackberries' is a 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting of a Scottish coastal path view with yellow gorse and berry bushes. Children are picking berries or sitting enjoying the view overlooking the sea, depicting halcyon days of summer. Scottish artist Charles Martin Hardie...

A beautifully painted motif by the female artist Ingeborg Åkerman (1881-1960) of a woman sitting in her garden shaded from the sun by the arbor where she is sewing. It is probably pa...