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Period: 1890s
1896 Original poster - Les Maîtres de l'affiche Pl. 38 - La revue Blanche
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre Bonnard's "La revue Blanche" poster, created in 1896, is considered a masterpiece of poster art. It is part of the "Maîtres de l'Affiche" collection, edited by Jules Chéret, a...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Antique 19th century English Impressionist classical landscape with figures
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English Impressionist landscape with figures strolling under trees with the sea beyond.
Joseph Vickers de Ville was a son of the farmers Joseph and Mary Deville. He was...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Venetian scene of the Palazzo Dario by F. R. Unterberger
By Franz Richard Unterberger
Located in London, GB
A Venetian scene of the Palazzo Dario by F. R. Unterberger
Austrian, c.1898-1900
Frame: height 97cm, width 85cm, depth 7cm
Canvas: 83cm, width 70cm, depth...
Category
Romantic 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L'Univers est créé
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Gauguin came back to Paris in August 1893 from his first stay in Tahiti, In the luggage numerous drawings and preparatory work for a book designed by him. In collaboration with the writer Charles Morice, parts of the text "NOA NOA" were created in Paris in the winter of 1893-1894. The plan was for a preferred edition with 10 almost identical woodcuts, all of which were made in the winter of 1893-1894. According to the individual proto-prints by Gauguin, the artist left the artist to Louis Roy...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Noël 1896–1897 issue of L'Illustration by Alphonse Mucha
Located in PARIS, FR
In the golden twilight of the 19th century, when print culture merged with the rising tide of decorative modernism, Alphonse Mucha emerged as a visionary who would forever redefine t...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Sanjûroku Kasen... - Woodcut by Mizuno Toshikata - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26).
Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Le Pont de Pierre" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression is from the rare 1897 portfolio "Art et Nature" by Leon Roger-Miles, published in Paris by Boudet in an edition of 525. Printed on Marais wo...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Etching
"Lorenzaccio" by Alphonse Mucha from Les Maitres de l'Affiche
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Alphonse Mucha
"Lorenzaccio, a play in five acts and an epilogue by Alfred de Museet"
Plate #114
Image Size: 15" x 11"
1896
Alphonse Mucha was born in Southern Moravia on July 24, 1860. At the age of seventeen the artist left his home, to work as a painter of stage decorations...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830- 1903)
MARCHE AUX LEGUMES A PONTOISE, 1891 (D. 97ii/ii)
Etching and aquatint, Unsigned as published in Le Peintre-graveur Illlustre: Pissarro, Sisley,...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Aquatint
Shady Stream - Late 19th Century Bucolic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous late 19th Century Russian landscape with stream in the shade by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Sergeev (Nikolai Alexandrovich Sergeyev ...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Cardboard
Side View Seated Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Side View Seated Female Nude
Graphite on paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Provenance:
Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Spanierman Gallery, New York (label)
Drawings from the...
Category
American Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Graphite
1890 original poster by Eugène Grasset for the Théâtre National de l'Odéon
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1890 original poster by Eugène Grasset for the Théâtre National de l'Odéon is a prime example of the elegant and refined design that defined the French Belle Époque period. This ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Linen, Lithograph, Paper
Landscape with Horses and Farmers, Oil on Canvas, Painted 1898.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fine landscape with horses resting by some trees and some farmers working the soil by Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen (1850 - 1908). Oil on canvas. Signed with monogram "FH" and dated 1898.
Henningsen was a Danish painter and draftsman.
In 1870, he was admitted to C. V. Nielsen's drawing school and then the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, from which he received his graduation certificate in 1875. As early as 1874, he exhibited his first work, a portrait of actress Julie Sødring, and he was subsequently represented at almost all Spring Exhibitions. He exhibited at Charlottenborg between 1875-1905 and also did exhibitions in Stockholm, Berlin and Paris. He showed great skill in many different areas, e.g. portrait painting, animal painting, landscape painting, genre painting and illustrations. Immediately after the academy, he traveled with academy scholarships to Germany, later to France in 1877-1878, where he applied to Léon Bonnat's school in Paris, and from where in the spring of 1878 he made a trip to Spain together with P.S. Krøyer, Frans Schwartz...
Category
Naturalistic 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cacao Van Houten original vintage French chocolate chromo-lithograph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original CACAO VAN HOUTEN, LE Meilleur Chocolat a consommer liquide. Hot chocolate turn of the century antique vintage poster, unsigned. Pr...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Roi Peste (The Plague Kings) - Etching by James Ensor - 1895
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
The Plague Kings is an original etching on the Japanese paper, realized by James Ensor in 1895, signed on the plate and dated, unique state, with the second signature on the reverse ...
Category
Surrealist 1890s Art
Materials
Etching
BAIGNEUSES
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (French 1836-1904)
BAIGNEUSES (4e grande planche), 1898 (Hediard 138 II/II)
It’s one of 6 works that formed a suite of images published ...
Category
French School 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
$650 Sale Price
31% Off
Engslen-Alp mit Wengernalp, German Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Black wooden frame
53.5 x 64.5 x 4 cm
Category
Contemporary 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" 1899 mandala lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Stone lithograph mandala plate of Hallowed Be Thy Name from Alphonse Mucha’s masterpiece of mysticism, Le Pater. Printed by F. Champenois, published by Henri Piazza in Paris in an edition of 510, 1899.
“Le Pater is the perfect convergence of three important movements at the close of the 19th century: Art Nouveau, Mysticism, and Religion. Art Nouveau, through its respect and honor of Nature, promotes the idea of a spirit of energy coursing through all things–a tenet of Mysticism–that finds foundation in the traditions of Mucha's personal relationship with the imagery of Religion. Le Pater gave Mucha a venue to communicate his beliefs specifically through his unique approach to Art and the coded language he had been learning through his devotion to Masonic teachings. He combined the aesthetics of Medieval manuscripts with Moorish arabesques, Byzantine mandalas, and Classical Renaissance melodrama to create a body of work that guided viewers across the gap between the ancient and the modern.
The published plates for Le Pater were struck by Champenois on December 20, 1899 in an edition of 510 copies with the express agreement that they never be reprinted. As much of Mucha's work had been commercialized by Champenois due to numerous printings across multiple mediums, by this point he felt he had earned the right to insist on this deeply personal work existing only in the original release he had envisioned.
The title page, prayer plates, and illuminated manuscript pages...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #44: "Music" Lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
Vienna Secession 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Arcade du Molard, Old Masters Hand colored etching by Charles Bastard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bastard, Swiss (1854 - 1924) - Arcade du Molard, Year: 1890, Medium: Hand colored etching on Arches, signed, titled and dated in the plate, Image Size: 6 x 8 inches, Size: ...
Category
Old Masters 1890s Art
Materials
Etching
His Timmer Staff
Located in New Orleans, LA
"His Timmer Staff" is an image of herding pigs by William Strang. It is a fine impression in fine condition in an edition of 20 signed and inscribed by the artist. Binyon 119
One...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Mezzotint
$125 Sale Price
35% Off
Sanjûroku Kasen ... - Woodcut by Mizuno Toshikata - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26).
Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Woodcut
On the Coast of Holland, Fishing Boat Ready for Sea
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
An interesting homage to the issue of rank amongst the crews and officers of all vessels, a captain is carried to his ready command by one of his subordinates through the ocean surf ...
Category
Other Art Style 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1896 original poster Cabourg à 5 heures de Paris by Privat-Livemont
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1896 original poster Cabourg à 5 heures de Paris by Privat-Livemont, part of Les Maîtres de l’Affiche series (Plate 88), is a stunning representation of the Belle Époque era's el...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Painting animals interior cats
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alfred BRUNEL NEUVILLE (1852-1941)
Interior with cats
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 54 X 75 cm
Dim frame : 74 X 85 cm
Alfred BRUNE...
Category
Academic 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
Le Route d'Hondouville - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Albert Lebourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1890 by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a view of a road to Hondouville, a commune in nothern France, ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alphonse Mucha Flirt Biscuits Lefevre Utile Poster
Located in Dallas, TX
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939) Flirt Biscuits Lefevre Utile.
1899, Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Linen backed.
Imp F. Champenois Paris.
Measures : sheet: 24.75 x 11.75 inche...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Paper
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The July Century - Original Lithograph (Les Maîtres de l'Affiche), 1895
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles Herbert WOODBURY
The July Century, 1895
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum
Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4")
INFORMATION : Plate 32 of "Les Maîtres de l'A...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Alhambra" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on cream wove paper is from the deluxe Large Paper Edition of 500, published in 1896. This is one of the beautiful and subtle lithographs...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bruges (Brügge), 1894 by Symbolist Painter Olof Sager-Nelson.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This painting by Olof Sager-Nelson, executed during his time in Bruges in 1894, is a splendid example of symbolism. It depicts a serene canal in Bruges, surrounded by sunlit houses w...
Category
Symbolist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$32,928 Sale Price
20% Off
Knackers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Binyon 232 - A fine impression in fine condition in an edition of 55 signed and inscribed by the artist.
Strang was a prolific printmaker and across his lifetime produced over 750 o...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Etching
$175 Sale Price
40% Off
Moonlight Glade (small private burial ground in New England)
By William Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Moonlight Glade", a small intimate etching of a New England graveyard, is a remembrance of the artist's roots. There is a quiet reverent calm to this moonlit scene,.
William Woodward, born in Seekonk, Massachusetts, received his art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He taught at the Rhode Island School of Design while still a student there.
At the behest of William Preston...
Category
American Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Joven con pamela - Año 1895 - Técnica mixta y gouache
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1895
Se presenta enmarcada la obra
Medidas acuarela: 42 cm. de altura x 24 cm. de ancho
Medidas acuarela enmarcada: 60 cm. de altura x 42 cm. de ancho
El estado de la obra es muy bueno
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Biografía del artista:
Pintor nacido en Bilbao el 21 de mayo de 1873 y muerto en Madrid en 27 de noviembre de 1936.
Cursó estudios en Bilbao bajo la competente dirección del maestro Lecuona. También recibió lecciones de Guiard, y más tarde, en Madrid, de los pintores Jiménez Aranda...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Gouache
"Hillside Landscape" Edwin Child, Farmland, Vast Rural Mountainous Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Edwin Child
Hillside Landscape, 1896
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 28 inches
Edwin Burrage Child was a prominent New England portraitis...
Category
American Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1895 original poster for Absinthe Mugnier by Lefèvre - Les Maîtres de l’Affiche
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1895 original poster for Absinthe Mugnier, designed by Lefèvre, is a stunning example of Belle Époque advertising. Included as Plate 135 in the prestigious Les Maîtres de l’Affic...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Figures on a Beach - 19th Century French Impressionist Antique Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine late 19th century French Impressionist oil in canvas depicting figures on a beach. Signed with a monogram and dated 1899 lower right.
Artis...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses Arrangement
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919)
Roses Arrangement
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 113 cm
Dim frame : 116 X 140 cm
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919) French painter 19th-20th century - Lyon School
Born in Amplepuis in 1849 - Died in Lyon in 1919
She studied with André Perrachon (1828-1909), Charbonnier and Elie Laurent...
Category
Academic 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
"Art et Decoration" Original 1902 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 57 from "Documents Decoratifs", published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1902.
Literature: Rennert/Weill, A.7 p. 389, Lendl p.132-33 no.105, Grand Palais no 28...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Smoking a pipe and drinking wine (1893) - Henri Hebert Swiss school
Located in Geneva, CH
Henri A. Hebert was born in Geneva in the 19th century. Genre painter and son of Jules Hebert both belonging to the Swiss school. The Geneva museum prese...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Circle of Fred MORGAN (1847-1927) c1890
Located in Holywell, GB
Circle of Fred MORGAN (1847-1927) c1890
A sensitively painted portrait, possibly a study for a larger work, of a young country girl. Indistinctly signed ** Morgan, possibly Fred. Unfortunately Fred signed in a number of different ways depending on the grandeur of his work. However, a consistent element was the colour, a reddish brown similar to the colour of the signature on this painting. I can offer no provenance with this painting, so I am selling at as circle of Morgan rather than actually by him.
“Frederick Morgan ROI was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.
Morgan was born in London to John Morgan and his wife, Henrietta Hester Clare. His father was a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury). At the age of 14, he was taken out of school by his father who then tutored him in art. At the age of 16, while still studying with his father, his first picture, The Rehearsal, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and, after a hiatus of several years, his paintings were shown there regularly. For a while he worked as a portrait artist for an Aylesbury photographer; this training proved to be crucial as it "taught him how to observe closely and to give the greatest attention to detail."
Eventually he turned to other subjects for his art, in particular idyllic genre scenes of country life and childhood. For many years, starting in 1874, Thomas Agnew & Sons' purchased all the work he produced.
Although an excellent portrait artist, Morgan had problems in depicting pets and barnyard animals - he enlisted the aid of either Arthur John Elsley...
Category
English School 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
Le Sentier
By Paul Cézanne
Located in London, GB
Paul Cézanne
Le Sentier
ca. 1890
Watercolour and pencil on paper
34.6 x 51.5 cms (13 5/8 x 20 1/4 ins)
PC16325
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$275,348
19th century oil Highland Scottish sheep in a Highland Lock Landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century Scottish Highland Sheep in a landscape.
A Scottish 19th century Highland landscape painting featuring Highland sheep by Vincent Collier offers more than just aesthetic ...
Category
Victorian 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Renewal - Original lithograph - 1897
Located in Paris, IDF
Emile BERCHMANS
Renewal
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin
Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12")
INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Modern...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jeune femme ajustant son corset - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, french, large, pastel
Located in London, GB
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (1851-1932)
Jeune femme ajustant son corset
1893
pastel on canvas
133.4 x 92.7 cm
signed and dated 'Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1893' (upper right)
Price:
£34,00...
Category
Other Art Style 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Antique American Impressionist New England Marsh Beach Dune Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach dune oil painting by Franklin B. De Haven (1856 - 1934). Oil on canvas, circa 1889. Signed. Displayed in a period gil...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovely Farm House Scene by Russian Master Bershadsky Genre Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left and dated: 15/IX, 1895, Y. Bershadsky - Yuliy (Ioil-Ruvin) Rafailovich Bershadsky (1869 - 1956), Russian - USSR painter and teacher, professor, honored artist of th...
Category
Realist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Pastel
A Day in Venice, 1892
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating painting by Axel Axelson (1854-1892), titled "A Day in Venice, 1892" illustrates a moment from Venice in the year of 1892. Within the compact dimensions of 24 x 14 c...
Category
Realist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,173 Sale Price
20% Off
The Serenade
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb, richly-inked impression, with skilfully wiped plate tone and burr in the drypoint, printed in dark sepia ink on cream laid paper, with the Louis LeGrand watermark in the bo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Joan of Arc / - The Liberating Power of Faith -
Located in Berlin, DE
Eugène Laurent (1832 Gray - 1898 Paris), Joan of Arc, around 1880. Brown patinated bronze on a cast rectangular plinth with tree trunk and distaff. 40 cm (height) x 15.5 cm (length) x 15.5 cm (depth), weight 6.1 kg. Signed “E.[ugène] Laurent.” on the plinth and inscribed “HZ” on the reverse.
- somewhat stained due to patina, traces of oxidation behind the distaff, slightly rubbed in places, overall still in very good condition for its age
- The Liberating Power of Faith -
At the age of 13, Jeanne, a peasant girl born in Lorraine around 1412, heard the voices of Saints Catherine and Margaret and the Archangel Michael telling her that she had been chosen to liberate France from English occupation. By 1428, Henry VI's troops had advanced to the Loire and besieged Orléans, a strategic city for the further conquest of France. Joan of Arc went to the exile of Charles VII and, with the king's consent, led the French army into battle against the besiegers. After four days of fighting, the English were defeated and Orléans was liberated. Other victorious battles followed, until in 1430 she fell into the hands of the enemy, who had her executed as a witch by the Inquisition. In May 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at Rouen.
After the final expulsion of the English, the "Maid of Orleans" was rehabilitated by the Church in 1456. She was finally canonized in 1920. By then, Joan of Arc had become a national heroine and the patron saint of France. After the French Revolution, the strengthening of the nation-state and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, Joan of Arc was again venerated and depicted in numerous bronze statues.
Eugène Laurent depicts the young girl listening to the voices of the saints who reveal her destiny. With her eyes wide open, she gazes at the sky as if she were looking at the revealed future. Her hands are clasped in prayer, indicating her willingness to face her destiny. Leaning against a tree trunk, she treads with one foot on a raised stone, which, together with her upward gaze, gives her an upward movement that announces her higher mission. At the same time, however, she steps down from the stone to the earth, emphasizing her earthly mission, for which she has already taken the first step. In doing so, she steps over the discarded distaff, which refers to her "lower" origins and belongs to the life she has now left behind.
Laurent manages to capture the fateful emotion that makes us look at Joan of Arc in awe, even though she is a simple peasant girl. Even if the design is aimed at the overall impression, the artist has nevertheless worked out certain details, such as the tied waistcoat, very realistically and, in addition to the skin, has particularly depicted the material quality of the textiles.
About the artist
Eugène Laurent studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he won a prize in 1860. He then joined the studio of Jacques Antoine Theodore Coinchon. As a freelance artist, he supplied the Paris Salon with statues, portrait busts, and medallions from 1861 to 1893. He also created large sculptures such as the monument to Jacques Callot in Nancy (1877) and the statue of François Boucher at the Paris City Hall.
GERMAN VERSION
Eugène Laurent (1832 Gray - 1898 Paris), Jeanne d’Arc, um 1880. Braun patinierte Bronze auf mitgegossener rechteckiger Plinthe mit Baumstamm und Spinnrocken. 40 cm (Höhe) x 15,5 cm (Länge) x 15,5, cm (Tiefe), Gewicht 6,1 kg. Auf der Plinthe mit „E.[ugène] Laurent.“ signiert und rückseitig mit „HZ“ bezeichnet.
- patinabedingt etwas fleckig, Oxidationsspuren hinter dem Spinnrocken, stellenweise leicht berieben, insgesamt in einem altersgemäß noch sehr guten Zustand
- Die befreiende Kraft des Glaubens -
Als 13jähige vernahm das um 1412 in Lothringen geborene Bauernmädchen Jeanne Stimmen der Heiligen Katharina und Margarete und des Erzengels Michael, die ihr verkündeten, auserwählt zu sein, Frankreich von der englischen Besatzung zu befreien. 1428 waren die Truppen von Heinrich VI. bis zur Loire vorgerückt und belagerten die für eine Weitereroberung Frankreichs strategisch wichtige Stadt Orléans. Jeanne d’Arc begab sich ins Exil Karls VII. und führte mit der Einwilligung des Königs das französische Heer gegen die Belagerer ins Feld. Nach viertätiger Schlacht unterlagen die Engländer und Orléans war befreit. Es folgten weitere siegreiche Kämpfen bis sie 1430 in die Hände des Feindes fiel, der bei der Inquisition ihre Hinrichtung als Hexe erwirkte. Im Mai 1431 wurde Jeanne d’Arc in Rouen verbrannt.
Im Anschluss an die endgültige Vertreibung der Engländer wurde die „Jungfrau von Orléans“ 1456 von der Kirche rehabilitiert. 1920 erfolgte schließlich ihre Heiligsprechung. Inzwischen galt Jeanne d’Arc als Nationalheldin und Schutzpatronin Frankreichs. In der Nachfolge der Französischen Revolution, dem Erstarken der Nationalstaatlichkeit und dem Deutsch-Französischen Krieg von 1870/71 erfuhr Jeanne d‘Art eine neue Verehrung und wurde in zahlreichen Bronzestatuen dargestellt.
Eugène Laurent zeigt das junge Mädchen wie sie die Stimmen der Heiligen vernimmt, die ihr das von der Vorsehung bestimmte Schicksal offenbaren. Mit weit geöffneten Augen blickt sie gen Himmel als ob sie die offenbarte Zukunft schauen würde. Dabei hat sie die Hände in Gebetshaltung geschlossen, was zugleich vom Willen kündet, sich ihrem Schicksal zu stellen. An einen Baumstamm gelehnt, tritt sie mit dem einen Fuß auf einen erhöhten Stein, was ihr – zusammen mit dem aufwärts gerichteten Blick – eine von ihrer höheren Mission kündende Aufwärtsbewegung verleiht. Zugleich tritt sie aber auch von dem Stein auf die Erde herab, wodurch ihre irdische Mission hervorgehoben wird, zu der sie bereits den ersten Schritt getan hat. Dabei steigt sie über den abgelegten Spinnrocken hinweg, der auf ihre ‚niedere‘ Herkunft verweist und zum nun abgelegten Leben gehört.
Laurent gelingt es, die schicksalhafte Ergriffenheit zur Darstellung zu bringen, die uns Jeanne d‘Arc, obwohl sie ein einfaches Bauernmädchen ist, ehrfürchtig betrachten lässt. Auch wenn die Gestaltung auf den Gesamteindruck zielt, hat der Künstler doch einzelne Details, wie die zugebundene Weste, äußerst realitätsnah herausgearbeitet und neben der Haut insbesondere die stoffliche Qualität der Textilien zur Darstellung gebracht.
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Eugène Laurent studierte an der Pariser École des Beaux-Arts und wurde 1860 von der Akademie mit einem Preis ausgezeichnet. Anschließend trat er in das Atelier Jacques Antoine Theodore Coinchon ein. Als freischaffender Künstler beschickte er von 1861 bis 1893 den Pariser Salon mit Statuen, Porträtbüsten und Medaillons. Zudem schuf er Großplastiken wie das Denkmal Jacques Callots in Nancy (1877) und die Statue...
Category
Realist 1890s Art
Materials
Bronze
$1,128 Sale Price
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Historical Southern Painting - North Carolina Homestead - Belcross, Camden Co.
Located in Baltimore, MD
If you have interest in Eastern North Carolina Tidewater history and architecture, this painting may be a fine addition to your home or collection. It is an oil on board of the Sanderlin House in Belcross, Camden County. There is quite a bit of history written on a card on the back board that describes the family members of the house in the late 19th century.
Camden is the courthouse town for Camden County. It is a small town located on the east side of the Pasquotank River, a few miles from Elizabeth City. Belcross is an area just outside of town. Apparently two near-identical houses were built ca 1840’s by the Sanderlin brothers, William and Joseph. One was left to ruin and disappeared, the other seems to possibly remain. In any event, per the information included, this is a view of the house by artist Miss Ella Bidgood, ca 1895. An Ella Bidgood, born in Baltimore in 1855, has been identified and she was a resident of Norfolk, Virginia with her family in the 1900 census. She is likely the artist of this painting. It is painted in a somewhat naive style but competently shows details of the house in nice, vivid colors. The painting is not signed but the information on the back side seems completely reliable.
The painting itself is oil on board and measures 12” x 18”. It has been recently cleaned and varnished. It is in very good condition with no issues to report. It is housed in a substantial gold painted frame of the period with interesting detailing. Overall framed measurements are 19” x 24”. The frame is in good solid condition with no issues to report, other than expected very minor age-related wear. Note that the photos show some glare from the varnish in places that really doesn’t show in general light.
Southern paintings...
Category
Folk Art 1890s Art
Materials
Oil
Two Actors - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Actors - Japanese Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延, 1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延).
Colorful and expressive court scene. Two actors...
Category
Edo 1890s Art
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
$700 Sale Price
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oil on canvas Historical Scene " The Surrender of Breda "after Diego Velasquez
Located in Gavere, BE
The Surrender of Breda, June 5, 1625, known as the Lances is an oil on canvas painted by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (1599, Seville - 1660, Madrid) during the years 1634-1635...
Category
Baroque 1890s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Cercle Artistique de Schaerbeek
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The gallery is opening its private collection of art nouveau and art deco paintings, lithographs and antiques for the first time in more than twenty years.
Presenting an original li...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Barateuse" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. Etched by Edmond Hedouin after Jean-Francois Millet and published in 1890 in an edition of 200. This is a nice impression printed on a japon-style paper. The image m...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Etching
Impressionist Lake Motif From Sturehäll, Stockholm, 1892
Located in Stockholm, SE
This painting called Sturehäll by Carl Johansson, crafted in 1892 when the artist was 29 years old, offers a captivating glimpse of Sturehäll, near Sturehov in Norsborg. This piece, ...
Category
Impressionist 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,515 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape with a Norman Church
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th Century English Autumn river landscape with a Norman Church.
Abraham Hulk Junior was born in the Netherlands in 1851 to renowned Dutch ...
Category
Victorian 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sanjûroku Kasen ... - Woodcut by Mizuno Toshikata - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26).
Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...
Category
Modern 1890s Art
Materials
Woodcut
!9th century English Pub interior , with Huntsmen and figures drinking
Located in Woodbury, CT
After the painting by John Lomax,who was an English genre painter
The scene is great fun, as we can see different groups all enjoying the Classic English Pub interior...
Category
Victorian 1890s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,960 Sale Price
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Ta Bouche, Art Nouveau Lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (1864 - 1901) - Ta Bouche, Year: 1893, Medium: Lithograph, Image Size: 7 x 10 inches, Size: 11 x 14.75 in. (27.94 x 37.47 cm), Description: From t...
Category
Art Nouveau 1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph