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Period: 1870s
William Merritt Chase
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Walter Shirlaw 1838-1909 , was a Scottish born American painter who was moved to America with his parents in 1840. Shirlaw studied in Munich where he met and befriended William Merr...
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Oil
American 1870’s Hudson River Antique Frame Antique Painting Gilt Frame
Located in Jacksonville, FL
American 1870’s Hudson River Antique Frame Antique Painting Gilt Frame
Frame Size: Width: 36.25″ X Height: 41.25″
Thickness: 5.75″
Picture Size: Width: 25.25″ X Height: 30.25″
B...
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Wood
Louis Aime Japy
Located in Dallas, TX
Louis Aimé Japy (1840-1916)
Oil on canvas
Cows in river with village in background
Signed lower right, Japy.
Canvas 26” x 32”
Overall in a period gilt frame 38” x 44”.
Conditi...
Category
Barbizon School 1870s Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Spring
Located in PARIS, FR
The Spring
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Sculpture made in white Carrara marble
signed on the base "A. Carrier-Belleuse"
France
circa 1870
height 76,5 cm
width 30 cm
depth 24 cm
Biography :
Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse known as Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) was one of the most prolific artists of the century and had the greatest successes under the Second Empire, enjoying the personal support of Napoleon III. His work was greatly influenced by the style of the Italian Renaissance and that of the 18th century, which he helped to bring up to date.
In 1837, the young Carrier-Belleuse apprenticed in the workshop of the engraver Bauchery. He was admitted soon after to the goldsmith Jacques Henri Fauconnier. Through François Arago, he met the sculptor David d'Angers who facilitated his admission to the School of Fine Arts. Carrier-Belleuse entered it in 1840. Noted for his skill by the great bronze companies in Paris such as Barbedienne and Denière, he soon received numerous orders for models for candelabras, pendulums, fittings for fireplaces, etc. In 1848, probably at the initiative of François Arago, who became head of state, he received his first public order for a small statue of "Mademoiselle Rachel singing La Marseillaise". In 1851, he appeared for the first time at the Salon of French Artists, where he presented two bronze medallions. From 1851 to 1855, Carrier-Belleuse stayed in England, in Stoke-on-Trent where he served as director of the modeling and drawing school of the Minton house, a large porcelain manufacturer.
Back in France, Carrier-Belleuse moved to Paris in a large workshop located 15 rue de la Tour d´Auvergne. From 1857, he made regular sendings to the Salon and became famous thanks to the success of large marbles, such as the "Bacchante" exhibited at the Salon in 1863, and acquired by Napoleon III, "Angelica" (1866) or even "Hebe asleep" (1869). At the Salon of 1867, his group entitled "Messiah" earned him the medal of honor of sculpture. It was acquired by the State to adorn the Chapel of the Virgin in the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church.
Carrier-Belleuse acquired a great reputation in parallel for his terracotta busts which, in many respects, recall those of 18th century artists. He made portraits of a large number of celebrities of his time. He produced, among others, the busts of Napoleon III, Renan, Thiers, Grévy, Arago, Marguerite Bellanger, Théophile Gautier, Honoré Daumier, Delacroix, Hortense Schneider, Réjane… He also modelled numerous busts of mythological inspiration and historical and artistic portraits like Marie Stuart, Shakespeare or even Mozart.
Carrier-Belleuse used and trained in his workshop in the rue de la Tour d´Auvergne many young talented artists such as Alexandre Falguière, Jules Desbois, Eugène Delaplanche, Jules Dalou or Joseph Chéret; but he was best known for having been the master of Auguste Rodin who entered his studio as a practitioner in 1864.
Carrier-Belleuse devoted himself a lot to decorative sculpture. He contributed to the decorations of many important buildings. We owe him in particular the caryatids of the Renaissance theater in Paris, the pediment of the main entrance to the Banque de France, the stucco ceilings of the Lesdiguières and La Trémoïlle pavilions at the Louvre Palace, the frieze of the Palais de la Bourse in Brussels, or the decoration of the Hôtel de la Païva on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. He also received State commissions for monuments: that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Montmorency, of Alexandre Dumas, in Villers-Cotterêts, of Masséna in Nice. Abroad, he produced the equestrian statue of Michael the brave in Bucharest and the tomb of José de San Martín in Buenos Aires.
In 1873, Carrier-Belleuse took part in the construction of the Paris Opera house, directed by his friend Charles Garnier. He created the two monumental torchieres...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Marble
Pietro Krohn (Attributed), Interior With Woman Knitting, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting attributed to Danish artist Pietro Krohn (1840-1905) depicts a gently lit interior with a woman knitting before a statue of the Venus de Milo. It’...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The little bouquet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Miralles is one of Spain's most lauded academic coming towards impressionism painters. He was technically superlative and had a way with lush brushwork that made his work highly sou...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Young woman painting, the artist, 19th Century anonymous master oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Painted with inspiration, sensitivity and with grace, this painting depicts a young woman whose right arm is slightly stretched out. Although we cannot see her hand, she must clearly...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Dog Painting: Pair of Grand Griffon Vendéen Hunting Dogs, circa 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting:
Pair of Grand Griffon Vendéen Hunting Dogs
Jules Chardigny (France, 1842-1892) circa 1870
Oil on canvas, signed
21 3/4 x 18 1/3 (29 1/8 x 24 3/4 frame) inches
This rather large painting depicts a very finely executed portrait of a two Grand Griffon Vendéen hunting dogs. The Grand Griffon Vendéen are a very old breed of French hunting dogs...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Gouache Painting Artist Studio Interior Painting 1870
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3929 Antique interior painting of an artist studio works on artist board
Set in a period walnut frame image size 19.5x13.5"
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Antique Irish Oil Canvas Fishing Maritime Painting William P Rogers Dublin 1870
By William P. Rogers
Located in Portland, OR
A good & whimsical oil on canvas painting by the Irish painter William P. Rogers (fl 1846-1872). The work depicts a fisherman mending his nets, with baskets & ropes to the foreground...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Home of Colonel William H. Terrill Roanoke Virginia Original Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Home of Colonel William H. Terrill Roanoke Virginia Original Photograph
Home of the Colonel William Terrill (CSA) Roanoke Virginia, original period s...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Ink, Silver Gelatin
American White Pelican
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 422. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
Custom fr...
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Paper
Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed (verso), and signed and dated ‘20th July 1878’, by R.A invigilator, E.B. Stephen A.R.A. (bottom left), 73cm x 46cm, (88cm x 60cm framed). The work is framed...
Category
English School 1870s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Grand Tour Venice - Large 19th Century Venetian Oil Painting Ducal Palace
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Grand Tour, Venice’ by Josef Carl Püttner (1821-1881).
The painting – which depicts a group of 19th century Grand Tourists on the Riva degli ...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Claude Lorraine Ferneley 19th century Horse in stable, oil painting
Located in York, GB
A fine 19th century oil painting of a chestnut hunter "Light heart" in a stable by Claude Lorraine Ferneley
Oil on canvas size of painting is 63.5 x 48.5cm ...
Category
Old Masters 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Franceso Vinea
By Francesco Vinea
Located in Portland, OR
A very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845-1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873.
Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were always elegant and depicted figures in period costume situated in lavishly ornamented interiors. Vinea became quite famous and wealthy in his lifetime and his work was particularly sought after in France, England and The United States. The 19th Century American art collector James Jackson...
Category
Italian School 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Le Printemps de 1872" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1872 by A. Salmon and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Plate size: 8 1/4 x 5 inches (210 x 125 mm)...
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Etching
Melancholic Sappho - 19th Century Pre-Raphalite Exhib Oil Painting Greek Goddess
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Melancholic Sappho’ by Arthur Hill RBA (1841-1908).
The painting – which depicts the celebrated poet of Ancient Greece appealing to the Goddess Aphrodite, with the Parthenon on the...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
French 19th century Chickens in a barn or chicken coop interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 19th century Chickens in a barn or Chicken coop interior
Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals ...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Oil on canvas by Eugene Verboeckhoven & Alexander Daiwaille (1796-1881)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on canvas by Eugene Verboeckhoven (1796-1881) & Alexander Daiwaille (1818-1888) Landscape with cattle & sheep on a farm track.
Signed by both artists.
Canvas size: 22" x 31" Fr...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century
dated and signed 1874 ( Portrait of the artist's daughter )
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
An Impressionistic Landscape Study by Swedish Artist Carl Skånberg, Grisaille
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Skånberg is known for his delicate brushwork that echoed the early influence of Impressionism in Swedish art, Skånberg's work typically carries a certain mystique and emotional ...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Study off Newport, Rhode Island" John Singer Sargent Drawing, Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
John Singer Sargent
Study off Newport, Rhode Island, 1876
Signed in pencil "JS265A" lower left
Pencil on paper
5 x 10 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1959
Mr. William H. Bender Jr
Sotheby's New York, September 19, 1987
Private Collection 1987-2000
Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc., circa 2002
Private Collection (acquired from the above), New York
Recognized as the leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical precocity, he shunned traditional academic precepts in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, thereby making his own special contribution to the history of grand manner portraiture.
A true cosmopolite, he was also a painter of plein air landscapes and genre scenes, drawing his subjects from such diverse locales as England, France, Italy and Switzerland. In so doing, Sargent also played a vital role in the history of British and American Impressionism.
Sargent was born in Florence in 1856. He was the first child of Dr. Fitzwilliam Sargent, a surgeon from an old New England family, and Mary Newbold Singer, the daughter of a Philadelphia merchant. His parents were among the many prosperous Americans who adopted an expatriate lifestyle during the later nineteenth century. Indeed, Sargent's family traveled constantly throughout the Continent and in England, a mode of living that enriched Sargent both culturally and socially. He ultimately became fluent in French, Italian and German, in addition to English.
Having developed an interest in drawing as a boy, Sargent received his earliest formal instruction in Rome in 1869, where he was taught by the German-American landscape painter Carl Welsch. Following this, he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence during 1873-74.
In the spring of 1874, Sargent's family moved to Paris, enabling him to continue his training there. He soon entered the studio of Charles-Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran. In contrast to most French academic painters, Carolus-Duran taught his students to paint directly on the canvas, capturing the essence of his subject through relaxed brushwork, a tonal palette and strong chiaroscuro. Although Sargent also spent four years studying drawing under Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, it was Carolus-Duran's approach that would form the aesthetic basis of his style.
Upon his teacher's advice, Sargent also traveled to Spain and Holland to study the work of old master painters such as Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals, both of whom also employed deft, fluid techniques.
In 1876, Sargent made his first visit to the United States, claiming his American citizenship and visiting the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. One year later, he spent the summer in Cancale, in France's Brittany region, where he painted outdoors, applying Carolus-Duran's strategies to portrayals of fishing folk on sunlit beaches. His reputation in Paris was established in 1878 when his Oyster Gatherers of Cancale (1878; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) won an Honorable Mention at that year's Salon.
During the early 1880s, Sargent began making painting trips abroad, working in Venice in 1880 and 1882, where he painted street scenes and interiors notable for their brilliant play of light and shadow. He also embarked on what would be a lucrative career as a portraitist, producing such well known works as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
His early commissions also included an image of Madame Pierre Gautreau. A renowned beauty and member of Parisian society, Madame Gautreau was known for her bold, unorthodox approach towards fashion. In her portrait, entitled "Madame X" (1884; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Sargent effectively captured her distinctive aura. However, his daring realism, coupled with fact that he portrayed a diamond shoulder strap falling off one of her shoulders, caused such an uproar that his career in France was seriously compromised.
As a result of the controversy surrounding "Madame X,"Sargent left Paris in 1886, settling permanently in London. He subsequently flourished in the English capital, becoming the leading portrait painter to the upper classes. Those who shared Sargent's sense of refinement and sophistication, as well as his international viewpoint, were especially drawn to his fashionable French style.
In addition to patronage from such prominent British families as the Wertheimers and the Marlboroughs, Sargent received an equal number of American commissions, many of them secured by artists and architects he had met during his student days in Paris, among them painters J. Carroll Beckwith and Julian Alden Weir and architect Stanford White. On a painting tour to America during 1887-1888, he portrayed members of notable families from Boston and New York, including Mrs. Jacob Wendell and Elizabeth Allen...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Derriere Le Miroir-No. 190-Page 9
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere Le Miroir-No. 190-Page 9
Color llithograph, 1971
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 190, 1971
Publisher: Aime Maeght, Paris
Printer: L’Imprimerie Arts, Paris...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shere, Surrey, 19th century landscape oil on canvas
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Lovely landscape painting of sunset titled Shere, Surrey by George Vicat Cole, RA (1833-1893). The painting is in the tradition of plein art, monogrammed VC lower right and dated 187...
Category
English School 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amazing 19th Century Dutch Skating Woman Winter Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A powerful 19th century landscape and portrait painting. A young dutch woman lacing up her skates. Really rare and well painted. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Housed in a beautif...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bacchante with a Panther" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching (after the painting). Etched by French artist Frederic Auguste Laguillermie after the Corot painting. Published in Paris in 1873 by the Galerie Durand-Ruel for the ra...
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Etching
19th century Antique English Victorian Summer Harvest landscape, with figures.
By John Mundell
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English Antique Victorian Summertime Harvest landscape, with figures.
John Mundell was a British painter of landscapes as well as river scenes and coastal views. It is suggested that Mundell was a pseudonym of John James Wilson. Mundell’s work was vigorous, bright, and attractive and compares favorably with the work of many of the better artists of his time.
This is a very fine example of the artist's work. It is a rare composition for the artist as he mostly painted marines.
This piece is framed in its original antique gold leaf frame
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Canal a Venise
Located in St. Albans, GB
Charles COUSIN
Canvas Size: 26 x 32" (66 x 82cm)
Outside Frame Size: 36 x 42" (92 x 108cm)
Oil on Canvas
French School
In 1807 he was born in Paris. He died in 1887.
Cousin was a...
Category
Impressionist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Before Glyder Fawr - Large 19th Century Oil Painting Welsh Mountain Landscape
By John Syer
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Before Glyder Fawr’ by John Syer RBA RI (1815-1885).
The painting – which depicts the famous Welsh mountain in Snowdonia – is signed by the artist and dated 1876.
Academy Fine P...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Lively countryside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Oil
Victor Forssell, River Landscape With Cottages, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This spirited 19th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Victor Forssell (1846-1931) depicts a river landscape with cottages and figure.
Painted in 1...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Notre Dame de Paris - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1865
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Notre Dame de Paris is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1865
Edited by Hetzel – Paris
Illustrated edition in a full blue calf binding “à la Bradel”.
3 tomes in one volume l...
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Paper
English Victorian 19th century Harvesting landscape with figures having lunch
Located in Woodbury, CT
A well painted and good quality English Victorian landscape. Dingle was a painter of landscape scenes from the middle of the 19th century. He often painted people going about their d...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
La Légende des Siècles - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1859
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
La Légende des Siècles is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1859
Edit by Hetzel - Bruxelles
Original edition in a coeval half leather binding. 2 tomes in one volume. in-8° (2...
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Paper
Common or Arctic Puffin
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 383. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Paper
Quatrevingt - Treize - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1876
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Quatrevingt - Treize is a rare book by Victor Hugo Vierge Daniel, Brion Gustave and otherspublished in 1876
Edited by Eugène Hugues – Paris
Original “De luxe” illustrated edition ....
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Paper
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape
Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engr...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Authorized Orvis Dealer Leaping Trout Colour- Plate by S.A Kilbourne 1878
Located in Bristol, CT
Print Sz: 17"H x 22"W
Frame Sz: 21 1/2"H x 26 1/2"W
Ex- Adirondack 'Great Camp' estate
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Napoléon le Petit - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1879
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Napoléon le petit is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1879
Edited by Eugène Hugues – Paris
Original “De luxe” illustrated edition by Vierge Daniel – Chifflart François – Lau...
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Paper
The Heath - La Brughiera - Etching by Adolfo Bignami - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Etching by Adolfo Bignami in the late 19th Century.
Printed by Carlo Lovera
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Etching
La Pitié Suprême - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1879
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
La pitié suprême is a rare book by published in 1879.
Edited by Calman-Levy – Paris.
First edition on “papier courant” after 50 copies on “grand papier” in a coeval half leather bi...
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Paper
Trumpeter Swan. (Young).
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 383. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Paper
Animated characters in the countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1870s Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century Hudson River School Bucolic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful example of the Hudson River School romantic bucolic New York autumn landscape with cows foraging. Illegible artist signature on stretcher bar (See enhanced images). Conditi...
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Study of a saint, circa 1875-79, Preparatory drawing
Located in PARIS, FR
Melchior DOZE (1827-1913)
Study of a saint, ca. 1875-79
Preparatory drawing for the decoration of the church of Saint-Félix de Saint-Gervasy (Gard), chapel of the Cross (south side...
Category
Academic 1870s Art
Materials
Chalk, Paper, Graphite
Antique Dutch 19th century ships at sea, fishing boats, men rowing.
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very well-painted Dutch 19th century marine scene. The small boat is full of men who are rowing hard to get to the larger vessels, possibly to either take goods on or off the large...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The toy seller
Located in Roma, RM
Federico Del Campo (Lima 1837 - Venice 1923), The Toy Seller (1877)
Oil painting on panel 22 x 37 cm signed Campo on the left, on the back is an old label from Williams and sons ga...
Category
Academic 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Una Reina del Circo - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1877 (1815)
Located in Roma, IT
Una Reina del Circo is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Goya.
Etching and Aquatint, from the Series "Los Proverbios", realized in 1815.
Thi...
Category
Modern 1870s Art
Materials
Etching
Diana with an arrow
Located in PARIS, FR
Diana with an arrow
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Bronze sculpture with a dual light and dark brown patina
signed on the base "Carrier-Belleuse"
inscribed on a front plaque "Diane à la Flèche par Carrier-Belleuse (Sculptr)"
France
circa 1870
height 83 cm
arrow added probably in the 20th c.
Biography :
Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse known as Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) was one of the most prolific artists of the century and had the greatest successes under the Second Empire, enjoying the personal support of Napoleon III. His work was greatly influenced by the style of the Italian Renaissance and that of the 18th century, which he helped to bring up to date.
In 1837, the young Carrier-Belleuse apprenticed in the workshop of the engraver Bauchery. He was admitted soon after to the goldsmith Jacques Henri Fauconnier. Through François Arago, he met the sculptor David d'Angers who facilitated his admission to the School of Fine Arts. Carrier-Belleuse entered it in 1840. Noted for his skill by the great bronze companies in Paris such as Barbedienne and Denière, he soon received numerous orders for models for candelabras, pendulums, fittings for fireplaces, etc. In 1848, probably at the initiative of François Arago, who became head of state, he received his first public order for a small statue of "Mademoiselle Rachel singing La Marseillaise". In 1851, he appeared for the first time at the Salon of French Artists, where he presented two bronze medallions. From 1851 to 1855, Carrier-Belleuse stayed in England, in Stoke-on-Trent where he served as director of the modeling and drawing school of the Minton house, a large porcelain manufacturer.
Back in France, Carrier-Belleuse moved to Paris in a large workshop located 15 rue de la Tour d´Auvergne. From 1857, he made regular sendings to the Salon and became famous thanks to the success of large marbles, such as the "Bacchante" exhibited at the Salon in 1863, and acquired by Napoleon III, "Angelica" (1866) or even "Hebe asleep" (1869). At the Salon of 1867, his group entitled "Messiah" earned him the medal of honor of sculpture. It was acquired by the State to adorn the Chapel of the Virgin in the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church.
Carrier-Belleuse acquired a great reputation in parallel for his terracotta busts which, in many respects, recall those of 18th century artists. He made portraits of a large number of celebrities of his time. He produced, among others, the busts of Napoleon III, Renan, Thiers, Grévy, Arago, Marguerite Bellanger, Théophile Gautier, Honoré Daumier, Delacroix, Hortense Schneider, Réjane… He also modelled numerous busts of mythological inspiration and historical and artistic portraits like Marie Stuart, Shakespeare or even Mozart.
Carrier-Belleuse used and trained in his workshop in the rue de la Tour d´Auvergne many young talented artists such as Alexandre Falguière, Jules Desbois...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Bronze
The Body of Tee, a Chief, as preferred after Death, in Otaheite (Tahiti)
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
The Body of Tee a chief as preferred after Death in Otaheite (Tahiti) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Capt...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Engraving
Fiori di primavera
Located in Roma, RM
Federico Del Campo (Lima 1837 – Venezia 1923), Fiori di primavera (1877)
Dipinto ad olio su tavola di cm 22 x 37 firmato Campo, situato Roma e datato 1877 in basso a destra, sul r...
Category
Academic 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold”
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold”
Wood engraving, 1871
Signed in the block with the artist's initials "WH", see photo
Published in: Every Saturday, Aug. 16, 1871
Condition: ...
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Art
Materials
Woodcut
[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.
Category
Hudson River School 1870s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Antique American Southern Folk Art BLUE EYED SIBLINGS Portrait Painting
By Thomas Sully
Located in New York, NY
Probably one of the most amazing detailed American 19th century folk art paintings I have ever owned!!! I have attached a picture of my 3 year old next to it, so you can see how beau...
Category
Folk Art 1870s Art
Materials
Oil
French 19th century, Lady looking at a jewel in an interior, South of France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Antoine Emile Plassan (1817-1903), a French painter of genre works, portraits and landscapes, was born in Bordeaux. He exhibited frequently at the Salon and was awarded medals in 185...
Category
Victorian 1870s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Le premier pas" Engraving by Herman Eichens - 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Paint by Anatole Vely
Engraved by Herman Eichens
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1878 by M. Kneeler & co in the office of the librarian of congress at Washington
New...
Category
Realist 1870s Art
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of a Lady Holding a Fan - French 19thC oil painting indistinctly signed
Located in London, GB
This charming 19th century portrait oil painting is attributed to the French School and painted by a female artoist. It has the composition and delicacy of French academic painters s...
Category
French School 1870s Art
Materials
Oil