Barbizon School Art

Artist: Charles Giroux (French, 1828-1885) Title: "L'Etang a Ville d'Array (The Pond in Ville d'Array)" Portfolio: Cent Chefs d'Oeuvre (Hundred Masterpieces of Work) *Signed in the plate (printed signature) by Giroux lower right Year: 1883 Medium: Original Etching on Laid paper Limited edition: 600 Printer: Unknown Publisher: Unknown Framing: Framed in a silver Baroque style moulding with a 8-ply silver silk matt. Framed size: 16.25" x 19" Image size: 6" x 10" Condition: Some light cosmetic wear to frame. In excellent condition Notes: This etching is after a painting of the same title by French artist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). This etching was exhibited at the "Cent Chefs d'Oeuvre" or "Hundred Masterpieces of Work", an exhibition held June 12, 1883 in the Gallery of Georges Petit, Paris, France. Georges Petit (1856-1920) was a French art dealer, a key figure in the Paris art world and an important promoter and cultivator of Impressionist artists. Biography: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Camille Corot was born in Paris in 1796, in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were bourgeois people-his father was a wigmaker and his mother a milliner-and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his parents made good...

This is a beautiful old 19th century French Barbizon oil painting on stretched canvas in a very, very heavy, ornate wood and stucco/gilt frame by French artist J Roberts, signed and...

This is an enchantingly beautiful old 19th century French Barbizon landscape/riverscape oil painting on thick board by François Edouard Bournichon (1816-1896). A gentle country sce...

French Barbizon landscape "Paysage avec un berger au crépuscule" by Brigitte Langevin This peaceful barbizon countryside landscape depicts a shepherd returning home with his flock a...

Barbizon School, late 19th/ early 20th century indistinctly signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on board, framed framed: 22 x 16.5 inches board: 16.5 x 11 inches provena...

Antoine Williams Zarra (1820-1892) was an international man of mystery. When not painting in the rural village of Barbizon and its environs, he was moonlighting as a costume and set ...

Fernand LUTSCHER Angers, 1843 - 1923 Oil on wood panel 22.5 x 39.5 cm (26.5 x 43.5 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "Fernand Lustcher / 1878" Excellent condition Ferna...

Introducing a stunning portrait by renowned French artist Léon Richet (1847-1907), depicting a young girl adorned with a beautiful floral wreath and a hat perched atop her head. This...

Signed, verso, on canvas laid down on masonite, 'Jules Mersfelder' (American, 1865-1937) and painted circa 1900. Displayed in a period, carved giltwood frame. Frame size: 19.5 x 24.5...

Eugene Petit 1839 - 1886 Oil on canvas Painting Size 16 x 13" (40 x 33cm) Outside Frame Size 23 x 20" (58 x 51cm) Free Shipping He was born in 1839 at Paris and died in 1886 in F...

Eugene Petit 1839 - 1886 Oil on canvas Painting Size 16 x 13" (40 x 33cm) Outside Frame Size 23 x 20" (58 x 51cm) Free Shipping He was born in 1839 at Paris and died in 1886 in F...

Oil painting on board of African antelopes in tropical settings. Presented in a bronze frame with embossed designs. Tagged Maitland-Smith on the backs. Please contact us to complet...

Oil painting on board of African elephants in tropical settings. Presented in a bronze frame with embossed designs. Tagged Maitland-Smith on the backs. Please contact us to complet...

Oil painting on board of African lions in tropical settings. Presented in a bronze frame with embossed designs. Tagged Maitland-Smith on the backs. Please contact us to complete th...

Large French barbizon painting "The dance of the nymphs" after Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot On the back of the stretcher there is an old stamp...

French School mid 19th Century Animated dune landscape, oil on cardboard panel 12.4 x 29.8 cm bears a small inscription "Escoublac" on the lower right, not visible under the actual ...

Drawing of Fontainebleau Forest Barbizon, France Pierre Auguste Brunet Houard (1829 - 1922) 19th century Pencil, colored pencil, gouache, paper 8 x 4 1/2 (16 3/8 x 12 1/4 frame) inc...

Émile Breton studied under his brother, the artist Jules Breton. Breton began to exhibit at the Salon in Paris in 1861. He was awarded a medal three years in a row, from 1866 to 1868...

19th century petite French oil painting depicting a countryside village along the shore line. Small goats can be seeing grazing, whilst in the distance we can see a mother walking wi...

Lovely romantic Barbizon style riverscape "Fishing at sunset over a river" This peaceful riverscape depicts a sunset illuminating the sky and covering the whole scenery in golden a...

Large French Barbizon riverscape "Sunset over a river" by Henry Jacques Delpy Henry Jacques Delpy born in Bois-le-Roi on June 28, 1877 and died in Paris on November 24, 1957 is a Fr...

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas glued to board. Oil measures 25x40 cm. Frameless. Illegible signature.

Signed Barbizon figures in landscape pastel on paper circa 1885 by French painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a first communion ceremony, with girls in white dresses and headscarves walking through a village as elder women look on. A wonderful piece in the artist's distinctive style. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 27"x31" Unframed: 20"x24" Provenance: Arthur Tooth & Sons - London (label verso) Léon Augustin Lhermitte was the son of a school teacher. He painted from a very early age and settled in Paris in 1863, enrolling in the École Impériale de Dessin. His teacher was Lecocq de Boisboudran. In the early days of his career he earned a living doing illustrations for boxes of sweets and the catalogues of the cabinet-makers of the Faubourg St-Antoine, as well as publishing houses. In 1879 he went to Great Britain, to which he returned frequently. The same year he met the art dealer Paul Durant-Ruel who exhibited his works. He was one of the founders of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he became vice-president. Lhermitte initially produced charcoal drawings which revealed his deep feeling for nature. His first attempt, Banks of the Marne near Alfort, caused a sensation. Following this he executed canvases, showing himself to be a fine landscape artist and a skilful draughtsman. He painted scenes from rural life almost exclusively and benefited from exceptional interest generated by the prizes awarded to the works of J. F. Millet. But although he was very much affected by the work of the painter of Angelus, he himself sought only the pictorial element and not a synthetic translation. Many other French masters of the period share his completely objective vision, for example Bastien Lepage, Roll, J. C. Cazin and Rafaelli. Like them, he put into practice very early on the technique of 'clear painting' made fashionable by the pursuit of Impressionism. But this group of artists borrowed from this method only those elements which appealed to public taste, and ignored chromatic elements. Lhermitte also paid the price for the easy success of those early days. His peasants, which found general favour with the public at the time, nowadays seem rather feeble alongside Camille Pissarro's renderings of the same subject. However, in order to pass judgement on an artist such as Lhermitte, it is necessary to understand the era in which he worked, the era in which Realism was the only acceptable approach. It was in the atmosphere of the 'Théâtre Libre' of Antoine and the novels of Maupassant, Zola and their imitators that this type of art developed. In this context, Lhermitte is recognised as having painted the life of the peasants with great powers of objective observation and great insight into types and physiognomies. Nothing escaped his implacable eye and his bold and vigorous hand was guided by a lucid mind. The simplest elements of nature take on an air of true grandeur in his painting, despite their romantic and sentimental aspects. He is highly regarded both in France and in other countries by art lovers who look for nothing more than an attractive subject expertly painted. Among his most noteworthy works, outside those in museums, are: Les Halles, Washing the Sheep, Haymaking Time, and his large decorative panel...

A French Barbizon School oil on canvas view of an idylic landscape signed M Legrand de C. Signed bottom left and presented in fine gilt 'Regence' style frame. The painting is on a qu...

Josep Colomer Comas (1935-2003) - The sheep shepherd - Oil on canvas Oil measures 36x46 cm. Frameless. Josep Colomer was an important landscaper at the Olot School, a teacher of pai...

Rafael Batallé Mallarach (1953) - Catalan farmhouse - Oil on panel Oil measures 33x24 cm. Frame measures 43x34 cm. Frame with signs of rust.

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the Barbizon School, was born in 1808 in Bordeaux to Spanish parents who had fled the Peninsular Wars. At 15 he began working as a ceramic painter in a porcelain factory, where he met Jules Dupré. Strongly influenced by Delacroix and the Romantics and attracted by medieval and Middle Eastern art, Diaz often in his early career painted exotic subjects. He showed his paintings in the Paris Salons of the 1830s and 1840s. Beginning in 1833 Diaz began to explore the forest of Fontainebleau, where he became a regular summer visitor in the following years, forming a close association with Théodore Rousseau and the other landscape painters of what came to be known as the School of Barbizon. Awarded a first-class medal at the Salon of 1848, he was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1851. In the early 1860s Diaz...

19th century French romantic landscape "Paysage avec une paysanne au crépuscule" This peaceful French countryside landscape depicts a young girl feeding the geese whilst at dusk. T...

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 ...

Charles Montlevault (1835-1897) Walkers along a cliff Signed lower left Oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm in good condition In a vintage frame : 57.5 x 50 cm unfortunately damaged with impor...

Henri Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916) View of capri, 1864, signed and dated "Capri aout 1864" lower left Watercolor on paper 14 x 22 cm In good condition. Framed : 24.5 x 33.5 cm Provenance : Family of the painter Ernest Lessieux (1845-1925) whom Henri Harpignies...

Houses along the road. Barbizon school. Pastel drawing, 19th century. On the back, character in a wooded landscape, sketch in pastel. Slight creases in the corners and on the edges o...

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829-1900) Landscape from Barbizon with characters Oil on canvas signed low right Old original sculpted wood frame gilded with leaves Size canvas : 33 X 41 cm Size frame : 43 X 51 cm Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829-1900) Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 in Paris, France – 28 June 1900 in Paris, France) was a famous French Barbizon School painter in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Trouillebert is considered a portraitist, a genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hébert...

Path in the woods. Barbizon school. Pastel drawing, 19th century. Pastel on cardboard.

Tree in the undergrowth. Barbizon school. Pastel drawing, 19th century. Water stain top right and bottom left. 50 x 35.5cm.

This 19th-century oil painting by French artist Léon Adolphe Belly (1827-1877) depicts a woodland view with a pond and women washing clothes. It’s a gentle portrayal and a far stretch from his grander ‘orientalist’ paintings. With relentless dedication, Belly undertook numerous exhausting missions to the expansive plains and claustrophobic heat of 19th-century North Africa where travel was debilitating, particularly for a dapper Frenchman, built for the playground of Paris. He did so in search of the ‘orient’, a theme in French Academic art made popular by painters such as Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Belly’s orientalist works combine a rich tapestry of colour and exquisite details. Vast horizons under a crisp heat, fully-laden camels resting under boughs, women gathering water from a river. These were the masterpieces which sang to the hanging committee of the illustrious Paris Salon. They lapped it up and his career was secured. Yet, when returning from his various travels, his work took on a different atmosphere. Away from the scorching banks of the Nile, he turned to the rich and varied topography of Fontainebleau, near Paris. These magical woods have inspired numerous artists over the years including painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) who, along with several of his contemporaries, became the first to truly embrace painting entirely outdoors. Belly’s work at Fontainebleau is quieter and less flamboyant. It lacks the attention-seeking bravura of his large desert scenes. At the Salon, hundreds of artists competed for the gaze of the bourgeois patron. While, when at home, Belly seemed to paint what he loved - for himself more than anyone. Here, in this piece from circa 1870, a woman dressed in a lilac top...

Johan Ericson (1849-1925) Swedish The Forest of Fontainebleau, c.1878 oil on panel signed Joh.Ericson painted c.1878 panel dimensions 21.65 x 17.32 inches (55 x 44 cm) frame 25.59 ...

Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference Delteil 1. This impression on cream laid paper was published by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in 1903. Plate size: 4 7/8 x 7 inches (125 x ...

A beautiful watercolour and chalk on paper circa 1860 by French Barbizon painter Henri Joseph Harpignies. The piece depicts figures beside the river Seine in Paris with a view of the Île de la Cité and the Notre Dame Cathedral behind on what looks to be a cool autumn day with the leaves of the trees beginning to turn brown. Signed lower right. Dimensions: Framed: 20"x23.5" Unframed: 10"x13.5" Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co. New York Christie's - New York Saint-Privé is a French commune located in the department of Yonne in region Bourgogne-Franche-Comt Born in Valenciennes, Henri Harpignies...

Superb oil on canvas painting by Felix Eugene Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port of Ste Maxime in France within the foreground of the...

Charles Henry Miller Flushing Landscape with Cows, circa 1880 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 13 x 19 inches Charles Henry Miller was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from L...

Original Barbizon school painting in an original period frame. Framed 24 x 18 Unframed 18 x 12

Signed Barbizon school oil on panel riverscape circa 1880 by French painter Louis Aime Japy. The piece depicts a fisherman in a small boat on the river as the sun fades and disappear...

Signed low-left.

Woman in a Field Oil on canvas, 1894 Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner Unframed A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. From the linear descendants of th...

A wonderful view of a river landscape with a rustic cottage and pollarded trees by Henri Sieurac. It isa rare, early and very fresh landscape by this Parisian artist which may well have been painted in the countryside around Barbizon, near the river Loing. Henry Sieurac had studied with his father, François Joseph Sieurac , and of Paul Delaroche...

Lithograph on on white wove paper, 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (112 x 187 mm), wide margins. First state (of 6). A very good impression with minor scattered spots of very light discoloratio...

"Robbe Louis, “Plein air” Animal Painter" ROBBE Louis Born in Courtrai on November 17, 1806, died in Brussels on May 2, 1887. Pupil of Eugène Verboeckchoven and Jean-Baptiste De Jonghe...

Lithograph on Chine appliqué, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches (235 x 206 mm), full margins. First state (of 4). Extremely minor uniform age tone, otherwise in good condition. A superb, richly-i...

Etching on cream laid paper, full margins. From Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages. [Beraldi II.140.34] Henri Béraldi Les graveurs du XIXe siècle: Guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. Librairie L. Conquet, vol. XII, Paris, 1885–1892, cat. no. 34, p. 140. __________ Well known in his native Germany as a watercolorist, Karl Bodmer had a rich experience exploring in North America in the 19th century, accompanying German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied as the official artist on an expedition which toured the Missouri River...

Etching on cream laid paper, 4 3/4 x 6 inches (120 × 152 mm), full margins. Minor uniform age tone, and a 2-inch x 1-inch margin loss, at top extreme sheet edge, well outside of imag...

Etching on cream laid paper, 6 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches (156 x 120 mm), full margins. In good condition with some minor, uniform age tone. Printed by George Bertauts, Paris. [Beraldi II.140.26] Henri Béraldi Les graveurs du XIXe siècle: Guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. Librairie L. Conquet, vol. XII, Paris, 1885–1892, cat. no. 34, p. 140. __________ Well known in his native Germany as a watercolorist, Karl Bodmer had a rich experience exploring in North America in the 19th century, accompanying German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied as the official artist on an expedition which toured the Missouri River...

from "Paris dans sa Splendeur: Monuments, Vues, Scènes Historiques, Descriptions et Histoire." Lithograph and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 9 3/8 x ...

Henri Auguste Alban Moral (1840-1889) A landscape with a wanderer, oil on canvas mounted on wood panel signed lower left 27.4 x 33 cm In its original vintage frame : 41.5 48.5 cm (...

An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre. Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...