Alexandre THEUVENOT

Red-breasted Merganser

Alexandre BLOCH (Paris, 1857 – Paris, 1919) Vanity Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 45 x 65 cm 1880 A student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jules Bastien-Lepage, Alexandre Bloch debuted at the Salon of French Artists in 1880 with a still life entitled Chez l'antiquaire: “We can distinguish on a Moorish and variegated carpet of red, white and yellow tones: a steel rapier, an earthenware alcarraza, a chased gold sugar bowl...

A. FERREYROLLES (active around 1880) Bread, fourme de Rochefort-Montagne and pottery on a wooden table Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 73 x 59 cm 1881 Few things are known to us about this Auvergne artist, who could to be Antoine Ferreyrolles, born in 1842 in Murat-le Quaire, about thirty kilometers southwest of Clermont-Ferrand; his surname being also very widespread in this part of Puy de Dôme. The Murol museum preserves three of his paintings, local landscapes, and there is a Entombment, painted in 1880 for the decor of the church of Rochefort-Montagne. There is also a Still Life with Game, dated 1886, and apparently in the same vein as our painting. This is executed in a very realistic style, bordering on trompe l'oeil, visibly inspired by artists from the beginning of the 17th century, such as the German Georg Flegel, the Dutch Floris Van Schooten or the Antwerp artist. Clara Peeters...

Édouard GELHAY (Braine, 1856 - Paris, 1939) Game lost Oil on panel enlarged by two centimeters on the right side Signed lower left. Dedicated top right to Princess Maria JABLONOWSK...

Nicolas Edward GABE (Paris, 1814 - Paris, 1865) The death of General Négrier on Place de la Bastille on June 25, 1848 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 82 x 101 cm 1849 Nicolas Edward Gabé is a 19th century artist who is still little studied to this day and yet seems to have enjoyed, according to the artistic press of the time, a certain notoriety, in particular for his seascapes. The few bibliographical elements that we have come from the Salon booklets and tell us that the artist was born in Paris in 1814, therefore shortly before the end of the Empire. No elements on his artistic training are mentioned in the booklets, we just know that Gabé exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1835 to 1864 where he first practiced miniature then then approached easel painting, risking himself as well in still life that the seascapes, the landscape, the portrait or the hunting. According to press articles, he also took part in various exhibitions in the provinces such as Boulogne-sur-Mer and Marseille. Notably, Gabé did not exhibit at the Salon his large historical canvases on the revolution of 1848, which today are of obvious documentary and iconographic interest; probably for political reasons which are easily understandable to us today in view of the historical events of then. Gabé died in Paris at the age of 51 on January 4, 1865 with a mention in the January 7, 1865 edition of L'Union des Arts: “The death of Mr. Gabé, painter, well known in the export trade in paintings as well as to the auctioneers' hotel, whose sales it supplied through its numerous navies. “ "On June 25, 1848, in front of the barricades erected in the Bastille by the insurgents of the Red Republic, General Négrier fell to death, while he was uttering words of order and conciliation". Here are the opening lines of the tribute paid by Colonel Borgarelli d´Ison, friend of General Négrier. General Négrier belonged to a family from Maine, brought back by Marshal Lannes from emigration. Born in Le Mans on April 27, 1788, François Marie Casimir de Négrier entered, barely 18, as a volunteer in the 2nd Light Infantry Regiment. He began in 1806 with the campaigns of Prussia and Poland, during which he earned, through his bravery, the rank of sergeant and the decoration of the Legion of Honor. He made the following campaigns in Spain and Portugal, and left, with his regiment, only for the campaign of France, in 1814, after having risen successively, by actions of brilliance and by a serious wound, to the ranks of head of battalion and officer of the Legion of Honor, with which he was provided from October 1813. The Restoration retained his rank in his regiment. After having fought and wounded a second time seriously in Waterloo, Négrier was recalled in 1816 under the second Restoration. He was appointed, in 1825, lieutenant-colonel, then colonel in 1830, brigadier general in 1836, and of division in 1841. From March 1837 he participated in the conquest of Algeria. The Revolution of 1848 found Negrier in possession of the important command of the 16th Military Division in Lille. Quaestor of the Assembly in these times which promised to be troubled, Négrier reviewed the Place de la Concorde on June 23 at around noon various mobile guard battalions. He then took the head of 2,000 men provided by the 10th and 11th legions of the national guard and bivouacked on the Place du Palais until the next day 24. On Sunday 25 at nine o'clock, the Négrier division resumed the fight towards the Saint suburb. -Antoine. The troop gains continual advantages. At around two o'clock the column of Négrier had seized the Pont Marie: it had removed the barricades from the Quai Saint-Paul, the rue de l'Etoile, the rue des Barres...

Camille METRA or METRA-HUBBARD (XIX - XX) The Thule King's Cup Oil on canvas Signed lower right and dated 1896. 113,5 x 146 cm Presentation at Union Exhibition of Women Painters and Sculptors 1896 under number 627 Figure painter and pastelist. She exhibited two works at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1895 under her maiden name METRA and implemented in 1896 in the same Salon as METRA-HUBBARD. Effectively, she married Monsieur Gustave Hubbard, Deputy of Seine et Oise, August 14, 1895. She was a member of the Union of Women Painters and regularly exhibited at the annual exhibition of 1891 to 1911 and she was repeatedly remarked. This painting refers to a poem published in 1782 by Goethe and resume it widely in his Faust (Part 1, 2759-82 lines). This poem will go to the full mode romantic nineteenth century by various translations of which the best known are Gérard de Nerval (1827) and later Louise Ackermann (1863). Franz Schubert...

François Hippolyte LALAISSE (Nancy, 1812 – Paris, 1884) Stallion in the stable Oil on canvas Signed lower left 68 x 95 cm Son of Augustin DELALAISSE, ...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with a pewter pitcher Reference number F445 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 50 x 73 x 2 cm (55 x 78 x 3,5 cm frame included) This work is painted w...

Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F486 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 43 x 72 x 2 cm (48 x 77 x 3,5 cm frame included) This work is paint...

Reference number F371 This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a canvas and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom left. The paint...

Still life with plums, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F374 The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated frame (see how it would look like on ...

Pierre Coquet - Tin cans Reference number F455 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 35 x 40 cm frame included (30 x 35 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper t...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with cherries Reference number F373 The painting is not framed but it could be with a painted black oak floater fra...