1880s Art

Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941) La Cueilleuse de Fruits oil on newsprint laid down to board signed Luce (lower right) Sight: 13 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (34.3 x 16.5cm) Frame: 17.5 x 10 I...

Medium: original etching. Executed in 1883; this is a rich, dark impression on heavy cream wove paper, from the "Original Etchings by American Artists" portfolio, published in 1883 b...

Medium: original etching. This bucolic landscape is located in what is now the borough of Queens in New York City. Printed on laid paper in 1880 and published by The American Art Rev...

Nadie Nos Ha Visto is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Editio...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Compan...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression on on cream wove paper was printed in 1889. Plate size: 5 x 9 3/4 inches (125 x 250 mm). Signed and titled in the plate (not ha...

Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) Dallas Artist Image Size: 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 Frame Size: 15 x 18 Medium: Pastel on paperboard Circa 1881 "Residence At Terrell" From the collection of Lucretia Coke. Signed F.R. Lower Left & S7 On Verso 1881 or 2, 2 or 3 miles from next house. Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) Charles Franklin Reaugh. THE FRANK REAUGH GALLERY AT THE PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM by Michael R. Grauer, Curator of Art, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Called the pejorative "Rembrandt of the Longhorn" and "Longhorn Leonardo," and the gentler "Painter to the Longhorns," Charles Franklin "Frank" Reaugh was a master pastellist unparalleled in Texas and the greater Southwest. While he advertised himself as a "landscape and cattle painter" and insisted he was the historian of the Texas longhorn, he has effectively, and unfortunately, pigeonholed his art. More appropriately, Frank Reaugh is often called the "Dean of Texas Painters." His name is synonymous with the "old guard" of Texas art history, along with Robert Onderdonk, Hermann Lungkwitz, William Henry Huddle, Henry McArdle, and others. Reaugh's paintings focused on the landscape of the American West generally, and the American Southwest, specifically. He captured subtleties in a land of high contrast where others only saw the rawness. He painted the overwhelmingly blue sky, the illimitable plains, and the great gashes in the land that are called canyons, arroyos, or breaks in the West. And he painted the Texas longhorn, or Texas cattle, as he referred to them. Usually no more important than the mesquite, yucca, sagebrush, and cholla that also populate his compositions of the Western landscape, the Texas longhorn became his recognized symbol. Today, some commercial galleries even insist that one of his works is more valuable if it has a cow in it! These commercial zealots in their search for a longhorn often overlook the beauty of his landscapes; they cannot see the landscape for the longhorns. Born near Jacksonville, Illinois in 1860, Reaugh first came to Texas in a wagon in 1876 at the age of fifteen. He moved with his parents to a farm near Terrell, Texas, until 1890 when they moved to Dallas and settled in what is now the Oak Cliff area. Reaugh had no formal education but fared well without it for his mother, Clarinda Reaugh, was his teacher in all things. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, his mother instilled in her only child an appreciation of nature, grounded in her own readings in zoology, botany, and natural history. Her teachings were infused with the philosophies of the famed Swiss zoologist Louis Agassiz and John Burroughs, supporter and contemporary of Walt Whitman, who wrote extensively on his symbiotic relationship with nature. Clarinda Reaugh also encouraged her son's interest in drawing through her own interest in the fine arts. Reaugh's father, George Washington Reaugh, was a mechanic, carpenter, cabinetmaker, and farmer, who had participated in the Gold Rush of 1849. It was from his father that Reaugh learned to be extremely adept with his hands, and later made his own picture frames and patented several inventions. George Reaugh's sense of adventure may have spurred his son's annual trips to West Texas and beyond, which began in the early 1880s. Reaugh's first exposure to art came through reproductions in popular magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's, and Century Illustrated. Rosa Bonheur's Horsefair, the Dutch painter Paulus Potter's Young Bull, and the landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church and J. M. W. Turner were favorites of his. (In fact, his late works are often especially reminiscent of Church and Turner.) From these early reproductions in black and white, Reaugh learned well the lessons of value and composition. While he studied and copied magazine reproductions, Reaugh also became interested in bovine anatomy. Using a "two-bit" book on cattle and sheep anatomy as his text, the young artist collected bones near the Reaugh farm and made measurements from family livestock. He supplemented his scientific studies with sketches made from longhorn cattle brought up from South Texas to fatten on grass nearby. In the early 1880s, Reaugh met two cattlemen, Frank and Romeo Houston, who had interests throughout North Texas, and accompanied them on cattle drives and roundups near present-day Wichita Falls and in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). His first documented trip to Western Texas came in 1883; probably near present day Wichita Falls and Henrietta, Texas. Reaugh made numerous sketches during these trips, often from the saddle, and later enlarged and composed them in the studio. His field sketches resulted in his first two pastel masterpieces, Watering the Herd (1889) and The One-O Roundup (1894). and his oil The Approaching Herd (1902). These trips with the Houstons, begun as early as 1883, spurred a wanderlust for West Texas that lured Reaugh until he was nearly eighty. Reaugh took his first formal art training at the Saint Louis Museum and School of Fine Arts during the winter of 1884-85. He spent most of his time there drawing from plaster casts of Greek, Roman, and Italian sculpture and possibly live models. Reaugh also met Halsey C. Ives, director of the school, who lectured on avant-garde art trends in Europe, particularly French Impressionism. Later, Ives was instrumental in the acceptance of Reaugh's work for display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in Saint Louis in 1904. Following his studies at Saint Louis, Reaugh returned to Terrell and began teaching art to young ladies in the area. He supplemented his art classes with a stint at teaching public school, and by November 1888 had saved enough money for a trip to Europe. Upon arriving at Paris, Reaugh enrolled at the Academie Julian, a school very popular with international students, especially Americans. He drew and painted from the figure while at the Academie under Jules Lefebvre, John-Joseph Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Douciet, all members of the "juste milieu" in France. Reaugh studied at the Academie for half of each day then supplemented his formal instruction by making copies of or studying paintings in the Louvre and the Luxembourg Palace. Logically he was especially drawn to the pastels in what he later called the 'pastel room' in the Louvre. In his 1927 pamphlet, Pastel, Reaugh wrote of the pastel painters he saw in the gallery: "[John] Russell, of England, and [Maurice-Quentin de] La Tour, [Jean Etienne] Liotard, [Jean Simeon] Chardin, and [Madame Vigee] Le [sic] Brun. These were great painters. . .the work of all of them may be seen in the pastel room of the Louvre, as fresh and bright, apparently, as on the day it was done." In addition to the pastellists he mentioned, Reaugh also saw pastels in the Louvre by Rosalba Carriera, Francois Boucher, and Pierre Paul Prudhon. At the end of March 1889, Reaugh traveled through Belgium and Holland, studying paintings of the Flemish and Dutch schools, and particularly those of The Hague School, of which Anton Mauve was a part. He returned to Paris in time to see the Exposition Universelle, at which paintings by French Impressionists Cezanne, Manet, Monet, and Pissarro were exhibited. This may have been Reaugh's initial exposure to Impressionism. Reaugh returned to Texas at the end of May 1889. Between 1890 and 1915, Frank Reaugh enjoyed his greatest success as an artist. He exhibited works at two world's fairs: the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He also exhibited at the prestigious National Academy of Design at New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Philadelphia, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Moreover, Reaugh became a member of the Society of Western Artists and exhibited with that group all over the United States. Finally, Reaugh toured his pastels with much success, especially in the upper Midwest. Simultaneously, Reaugh continued his trips to the West and, beginning in the 1890s, he started using a camera as a sketching tool. He photographed the landscape as well as cattle, and in 1893 photographed in Palo Duro Canyon; perhaps his first trip to the 'Grand Canyon of Texas'. After 1900, Reaugh turned his genius to inventing and patented several devices including a folding lap easel, a water pump, and a cooling mechanism for internal combustion engines, among other things. He also patented Reaugh Pastels, using a formula he developed and shaped into an octagonal-shape stick for easier gripping. Allegedly, either John Singer Sargent or William Merritt Chase used Reaugh Pastels. Reaugh also became more active in Dallas art and civic circles. After first offering private art lessons, he organized the Dallas School of Fine Arts in 1899. He urged Dallas to build the city's first art gallery in 1900, to which he donated a painting, and helped found the Dallas Art Association in 1903. Furthermore, Reaugh arranged the loan of paintings from then-contemporary American artists in the East and Midwest for the State Fair of Texas. An vocational naturalist, Reaugh also organized a popular nature study club in Dallas, members of which were young ladies who grew to be influential Dallas civic leaders. Nevertheless, despite his ground-level work to bring art to Dallas, as the Dallas Art Association grew Reaugh was pushed aside by socialites and his contributions forgotten. Around 1910 and possibly earlier, he began taking students with him on his trips West. Among them were Texas artists Edward G. Eisenlohr, Florence McClung, Lloyd Goff...

Medium: etching (etched by Jules Jacquemart after Vermeer). This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cass...

"Venetian Scene with Gondoliers" is an evocative portrayal of Venice, capturing the essence of the city’s romantic allure and bustling waterways. Created during Allan Österlind’s stu...

Medium: original etching. Signed both in the plate and in pencil. Catalogue reference Schneiderman 202. Executed in 1881, and printed on laid paper with full margins. Plate size: 7 x...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Schneider 113. Executed in 1885; this is a fine, dark impression with full original margins on watermarked laid paper from "The Portfol...

Marguerite JACQUELIN Valogne, 1850 – Bordeaux, 1941 Still Life with Dragon Oil on canvas 41 x 37.5 cm (51 x 47 cm with frame) Dated and signed lower right "Jacquelin / 1882" Beautifu...

Very pretty English 19th century River landscape with sailboats, a Paddle Steamer, and a crew rowing. Possibly a view on the Thames in London, this piece ...

This late 19th-century maritime painting by George Stainton captures the dramatic return of a fishing boat to harbor, skillfully portraying the power of the sea and the resilience of...

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Victor Hugo, de Face State Nine, Year: 1885, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 8.75 x 6 inches, Size: 10.75 x 7 in. (27.31 x 17.78 cm), Reference: T...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Rinder 28. Executed in 1889; this is a fine, dark impression on wove paper from "The Portfolio" edition, published in London by Seeley,...

Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919) pen and black ink on paper, inscribed with the name of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing 15 x 12 cm In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London. He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892. Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...

Deque mal Morira? is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition...

'A Young Parisienne' by Christine Sundberg, 1888. Royal Academy of Arts, Academie Colarossi, Jeu-de-Paume ---- Signed center left, 'Christine Sundberg' (Swedish, 1837-1892) and date...

Medium: original etching. This impression was printed on laid paper and published in 1887 by the New York Etching Club. Plate size: 6 x 4 inches. Not signed.

Andrew Melrose River Landscape Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 11 1/2 x 17 inches Not much is known about the early years of Scottish artist Andrew Melrose, but many sources...

Toulot Jules (1863-nc) Pianist officer in the Second Empire period Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame regilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 65 X 43 cm Dim frame : 90 X 67 cm TOULOT Jules (1863-nc) French painter 19th century Born 11th November 1863 in Champeinx (Puy de Dôme...

Pre-Raphaelite author's painting, probably English, dated 1880 and unsigned. The work depicts a gender scene set in a wooded landscape, with three female figures and two children ar...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 4 x 5 3/4 inches. Signed in t...

Medium: original etching. Executed by Tissot for the "Rene Mauperin" suite of etchings, published in Paris in 1884 by Charpentier in a limited edition of 550. This is a nice impressi...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (197 x 1...

Medium: original etching. Executed ca. 1880; this is a good impression with full original margins on laid paper from "The Portfolio" edition, published in London by Seeley, Jackson &...

Medium: original etching. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 x 6 3...

John Samuel Raven, After by Charles Cousen, English (1829 - 1877) - Twilight In The Wood, Portfolio: New Gallery of British Art, Year: 1882, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 10.75...

Désiré-François LAUGÉE (1823-1896) Woman in left profile, circa 1883 Preparatory study for Le Pèlerin held at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris ; this figur...

'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided. About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...

Medium: etching. Etched by James D. Smillie after this charming pastoral composition by Barbizon artist Charles Emile Jacque. This is a rich, dark impression on wove paper, printed i...

Well painted English Victorian scene of two boats in a battle at night time, off the coast of England. Though signed little is known about the painter. The piece is typically English in its style and the scene looks like the coast of the South of England. The painting has a sort of folk art quality, which maybe why the artist is not a listed painter...

“War Chronicles of Osaka” (Osaka gunki no uchi). Okubo Hikozaemon, raising his sword, protects the hidden Tokugawa shogun from the spear of Gorô Matabei Mototsugu in a moonlit fores...

Oil on wood panel painting of a Worcester, Massachusetts view by local resident artist Mabel Blake. Signed M. Blake lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is good. The bucolic scene depicts a man in a boat...

Las Rinde El Sueno is a black and White aquatint, drypoint, and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Editio...

Original Ambassadeurs Les Cinq Demi-Vierges. Linen backed in B condition. It was folded at one time with the fold marks laid down during the linen backing process. There are som...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1881 and published by Cassell & Company. Plate size: 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (150 x 220 mm). Sheet size: 8 x 11 3/8 inches (204 x 288 mm). Signed in...

Bavella pass, Corsica, France - by Jean Thomas (1923-2019) Oil on paper laid on board, signed lower left 50 x 65 x 2,5 cm, 1980 Framed with a natural oak floating frame (55 x 70 x 3....

A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance. Paris: Lemerre, 1880. Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Fourth state (of 5). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733). [Bourcard 113]. A note regarding the provenance: J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...

A dramatic, one of a kind oil study. Certainly not your run of the mill 19th Century portait! Depicted is a young man, whose face is brightly lit from what is likely is an open fire....

Medium: etching (etched by Leopold Flameng after the Sir John Gilbert painting). This impression on laid paper was printed in 1882 for the "A Group of ...

Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...

French Poet, visual artist, and female figure of street art, graffiti artist Miss Tic (1956 - 2022) is a contemporary French woman artist who printed her 'poc...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in London in 1880 for P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Signed in the plate.

This impressive original chromolithograph portrays His Highness Mohamed Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, a central political figure of the late 19th century. Tewfik Pasha reigned from...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (188 x 1...

Don't Scream, Fool (No grites, tonta) is an original modern artwwork realized by Francisco Goya between 1794-1798. Plate n. 74 from "Los Caprichos". Etching with aquatint in black-...

Medium: lithograph (after the poster). This lithograph (in reduced size) was published in Paris in 1884 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Size: 10 5/8 x 7 inches (265 x 180 mm). Signed in t...

Very nicely painted early American realist fruit still life painting by Cyrenius Hall (1830 - 1896). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14"H x 22"L.

Medium: original etching. This etching from "The Hawthorne Portfolio" was printed in 1884 and illustrates a scene from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Marble Fawn. Plate size: 5 1/2...

Medium: original etching. This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1880 and published by the American Art Review. The American Art Review featured original etchings by lead...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1888 and published by The New York Etching Club. Plate size: 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (215 x 140 mm). Signed in the plate, not by hand. Condition: t...

Opus IV, Simplicius in der Waldeinode (Simplicius in the Wilderness) belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroefer, 1881. ...

Laslett John Pott, After by William Greatbach, English (1837 - 1898) - The Defense, Portfolio: New Gallery of British Art, Year: 1882, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 6.75 x 9.75 ...

A splendid painting from the second half of the 19th century. Oil on board artwork, signed C. Huber on the lower left, attributed to the Austrian painter and graphic artist Carl Rudo...

This lovely Victorian landscape oil painting on canvas is by noted exhibited British artist John Horace Hooper. Hooper was particularly known for his landscapes and was fond of the s...

La Filiacion is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition.Very...

In the 1880’s Smith made a trip to Italy, which added a whole new dimension to his work. His tight style was highly suited to the depiction of the majestic architecture and complex c...