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Period, Signed, Barbizon Oil Painting

circa 1855

Sensitively rendered, original, oil-on-board portrait of a seated ballerina in costume. Acquired in Paris from a private collection of period paintings and drawings.

A rare, richly hand-painted, 18th century oil-on-panel portrait of a crane set against a moody sky amidst a lush landscape of mountains, forest, architecture, and water. Held in a ne...

Beautifully painted, oil-on-panel of a recumbent lion in its original, gilded wood frame.

17th century oil on panel of Piazza di Spagna. Italian school. Frame later.

Striking, black, white, red and blue, oil-on-panel painting by listed American artist, Emil Bisttram (1895-1976) whose work is held in many important museums. This period image has b...

Vibrant, large, signed and dated, oil-on-canvas painting by listed American artist, Erle Loran (1905-1999). Among Loran's many exhibitions were in 1924 at the Minnesota State Fair; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 1933; the Rockefeller Center, 1935; Oakland Art Gallery, 1936-1946; the San Francisco Art Museum annuals from 1936; the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1945; California Watercolor Society, 1947, among many others. His works can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Museum, the University of Minnesota...

BLOOMERS "L’attente” Oil on panel. 30 x 26.5 cm. Signed lower right Son of a talented lithographer, he was initially destined for the same profession as his father. But at the Acade...

"Paysanne dans un bois", oil painting on wooden panel, signed in the bottom left corner, 48.9x32.4cm. Origin: -Christie's New York, sale on May 29th 1981, lot no. 24 -Rindoko Museum, in Tochigi, Japan -Private collection in 2020, after sale Museum collection As a young man, Richet followed painting classes from Détrez, an old student of Léon Cogniet's. In Paris, he built a friendship with Teinturier (painter from Valencia) and became a student of Jules Lefebvre's but most importantly the disciple of Narcisse Diaz de La Pena, with whom he collaborated ( some canvas bare both their signatures). They both share a remarkable audacity in their enameled way of treating reflections of light on water as well as the the effects of the sun on the clouds. At the Salon de Paris...

Provenance: -Collection Anna de Noailles , then her descendants -Collection Lesieutre, Sotheby's sale in June 2017, lot n°159 -Online Catalogue Raisoné reference n°RM694 A pupil of G...

Nobody quite does moonlight quite like Camille Corot. Moonlit landscapes suited the artist's discreet artist's personality and painting. As Baudelaire astutely observed: "M. Corot is...

There is a lot to see in this delicate, luminous landscape: a little fisherman, a figure in his canoe, and the beautiful light on the water. It is an ...

A warm and romantic work by a very noted French Barbican artist. An older French frame of very high quality. An excellent painting to put in a room and be transported to France! Th...