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Cityscapes - France Pittoresque - Original Etching - 19th Century

19th Century

Cityscape - France Pittoresque is an original etching realized in the 19th Century. Belongs to the Series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. Titled in France on the lower c...

City Landscape is an Original Etching realized by Charles Meryon in 1866. The artwork is in good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (35.5x46 cm). No signature...

A charming pair of etchings of a French town scenes overlooking the cathedral. The artist has signed in graphite to the lower edge and has inscribed t...

"Figures Outside the Monastery" is an original etching by Jan Frans van Bloemen. It depicts people on the path to a church. 7" x 10 1/4" art 19 1/4" x 22 5/8" frame Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views (vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the aesthetic of the classical landscape tradition. Van Bloemen predominantly painted classical landscapes, taking his inspiration from the Roman Campagna. His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His paintings are exquisitely imbued with that "difficult-to-define pastoral ambience" which helped to make him such a great painter in the eyes of his contemporaries. The technique and subjects of the work of Jan Frans van Bloemen are also related to painters such as Jan Asselijn, Thomas Wyck...