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French 19th painting Oil Still life Compass fruits cherries glass and oysters

1820-1859

Gabriel-Dominique DUDAN (Active 1830s-1850s) Oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm (77 x 66 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right  "G. Dudan / 1854" Beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame from the 19th century Very good condition Gabriel Dudan...

Jean Frédéric COUTY Issoudun, 1829 - 1904 Oil on canvas 47 x 61 cm (63.5 x 79 cm) Signed and dated lower left "JFCouty / 1899" Very beautiful wooden frame and gilded stucco decorat...

Flemish school of the 17th century Oil on canvas 52 x 60 cm (66 x 76 cm with the frame) Very beautiful old frame in gilded wood Good condition (a few repaints and craquelures) The style of our painting reminds the first period of Flemish still life of the 17th century, very descriptive and meticulous. We think of painters such as Osias Beert, Jacob van Es and Clara Peeters...

Camille DOLARD Lons-Le-Saunier, 1810 – Lyon, 1884 Oil on panel 24 cm x 33 cm (34 x 43 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left “Camille Dolard / 1860” Very beautiful period frame i...

Roger Marcel Limouse, (Algerian/French 1894 - 1989) Still Life, October 1939, Oil on canvas. Signed upper right and marked Oct 39 on back. Greens, Blues, and Yellow/Browns prevail in this still life of a table with fruits, cake, and a candle. Nude is painted verso on stretched canvas under frame. Frame 24.5 x 28.875 x 1.625, Canvas 21.875 x 23.875 A student of Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934) at the Académie Julian, his figurative work, very colorful, with powerful and stripped down forms, made him one of the last representatives of Fauvism and the eldest of the group of Painters of Poetic Reality. He belongs to the School of Paris. In 1943, Jacques de Laprade dedicated a book to Roger Limouse in the collection "The Masters of Tomorrow" directed by Francis Carco. He writes, "One of the characteristics of this personality is strength. There is nothing in Limouse that lacks relief. This small and extremely vigorous man seduces by his direct and dru language, by his deep conviction, by the picturesque of his stories, by his very life which testifies to his energy. In 1948, Roger Limouse was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Professor at the School of Fine Arts). He held this position until 1964. In 1949, the journalist Gisèle d'Assailly (1904-1969) devoted a book "With the Painters of Poetic Reality" to eight friendly painters, supporters of a colorful and intimate figurative painting of French inspiration, Maurice Brianchon, Christian Caillard...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “bouquet au fons rouille” / bouquet with rusty frons. Oil on woven paper stock with deckled edges laid down on matt board. Signed lower right, titled v...

Alexandre Jean-Baptiste THEUVENOT (Port-sur-Saône, 1834 – Paris, 1882) Red-breasted Merganser Oil on canvas Signed at the bottom 78 x 56 cm Born in 1884 in Port-sur-Saône (Haute-S...

Louis Marie Eugène Arthur PETIT (Paris, 1838 – Paris, 1886) Bouquet of Hollyhocks Oil on canvas Signed lower right 110 x 55 cm Eugène Petit was born in Paris in the ninth arrondis...