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Item Ships From: New Orleans
At The Window by John William Godward
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
John William Godward
1861-1922 | British
At the Window
Signed and dated "J.W. Godward. 1920" (lower right)
Signed, inscribed and dated "At The Window/J.W.Godward. Rome.1920” (en verso)
Oil on canvas
A breathtaking quintessential work by John William Godward, this intriguing composition captures a classical beauty in a moment of quiet reflection as she gazes from a marble windowsill. Celebrated as one of the most important Neoclassical painters at the turn of the century, Godward's career was devoted to a segment of Classicism known as the Marble School which championed rendering Greco-Roman subjects placed amongst period architectural settings.
Though he worked throughout the late 19th century into the 1920s, Godward’s elegant and ethereal compositions provided an escape from the present day and beckoned viewers to lose themselves in a bygone era of classical serenity. Godward rendered his idyllic scenes with a degree of sensuality and technical mastery that remains unsurpassed.
The present work, entitled At the Window, perfectly embodies Godward’s oeuvre. The beautiful subject leans out from a marble aperture with a contemplative gaze. Her elegant peach-colored Grecian gown is punctuated by a deep magenta sash draping down from her waist, accentuating her graceful and sensuous form. Godward renders his idyllic subject and setting with keen detail, carefully painting the veins of various types of marble and his subject’s toe peeking out from beneath the hem of her gown. Of Godward's compelling oeuvre, esteemed art historian Vern Grosvenor Swanson wrote, “He sought to portray peace, feminine charm and ideal perfection by marvelously painted and composed classical pictures of beautiful women in halcyon marble environments.”
Raised in Wimbledon, England, Godward debuted at London’s Royal Academy exhibition in 1887. By the subsequent decade, the burgeoning artist was on a steady ascent to artistic success. Having fallen under the influence of British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton, and Sir Edward John Poynter...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
At the Mirror
By Frederick Carl Frieseke
Located in New Orleans, LA
the most important American Impressionists of his age. While many of his contemporaries focused on the landscape, Frieseke gained his inspiration from the figural, and in particular the theme of femininity. His works capture female figures engaging in traditionally feminine roles — strolling in the garden or posed in a domestic interior. At the Mirror...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Taroudant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, inscribed and dated "R. Pinatel / Taroudant / 1926" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A stunning ode to the Moroccan landscape, this oil on panel was composed by the French Orientalist painter Raphaël Pinatel, whose lively works adeptly translated the romanticism of the East for a Western audience. The present work, which captures a market in Taroudant, a city in southeastern Morocco, exemplifies the artist’s distinctive approach as he brilliantly translates the energy and atmosphere of the desert city. Pinatel’s style is impressionistic in his brushwork and handling of light and atmosphere. In the present work, he brilliantly captures the effects of the direct desert sun...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Panel, Oil
Qing Dynasty Chinese Reverse Glass Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Glass takes the place of canvas in this Qing Dynasty reverse glass painting dating to the 19th century. Chinese painters and calligraphers bega...
Category
19th Century Qing Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Glass
Gamblers Italian Micromosaic
Located in New Orleans, LA
A friendly game of cards is the subject of this 19th-century Italian micromosaic. A special type of mosaic that uses incredibly small pieces of tesse...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Glass, Mosaic
Cutty Sark Entering the River Thames by John Steven Dews
By John Steven Dews
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Steven Dews
b.1949 British
Cutty Sark Entering the River Thames
Signed "J Steven Dews" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
John Steven Dews demonstrates his skill for capturing the splendor of the historic clipper ship in this oil on canvas. Entitled Cutty Sark Entering the River Thames, the work brings vividly to life the historic clipper ship Cutty Sark as it returns home after a long journey. The majesty and grace of the historic vessel are perfectly realized in the present work, enhanced by Dew's mastery over composition and attention to detail. With his tranquil palette of light blues, whites and yellows, the artist imbues his canvas with the same sense of serenity that is felt at the end of a long journey.
Built in 1869, the Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship owned by the Jock Willis Shipping Line...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Lucie Gérard by Giovanni Boldini
By Giovanni Boldini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giovanni Boldini
1842-1931 Italian
Portrait of Lucie Gérard by Giovanni Boldini
Signed “Boldini” (lower right)
Pastel on canvas
This exceptional portrait was composed by the great Giovanni Boldini, one of the most important portrait painters of the Belle Époque. The charming work captures the young, elegant French...
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
The Bather by Childe Hassam
By Childe Hassam
Located in New Orleans, LA
Childe Hassam
1859-1935 American
The Bather
Signed and dated “Childe Hassam” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Considered by many to be America’s foremost Impressionist painter, Childe Hassam composed his tranquil and intimate oil on canvas The Bather in the early years of the 20th century. The creation of the artwork aligns with a period of Hassam’s career where the artist’s palette was transforming, matching ever closer with the pale and pastel hues of French Impressionists like Claude Monet. Even the subject — a nude woman — represents a greater alignment with the Impressionist project, as artists of the movement and their non-mythological and non-biblical nudes still generated cries of indecency. With Hassam’s signature brushwork and attention to color, The Bather serves as a dream-like vision, serene and sensuous, of a young woman bathing in a lush forest.
While the artist's skill for landscape painting is on display, it is Hassam's command of form, light and color that brings this canvas to life. He creates a captivating composition, placing the nude subject in the bottom left of the canvas. The soft, undulating curves of the woman's body in contrapposto and the glow of her fair skin are balanced by the strong verticals and deep earth tones of the tall trees to her right. Hassam delicately frames the nude in the vivid blues of the distant water, building luminous color that further draws the viewer’s eye and results in a somewhat voyeuristic appeal — endowing his nude with both a natural innocence and an intentional sensuality.
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam began his artistic career as a freelance illustrator, working for national publications such as Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s Monthly, and The Century. His first solo exhibition of watercolors took place in Boston in 1883, and he quickly catapulted onto the international scene, winning a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. The year before the present work was created, he received the Webb Prize from the Society of American Artists for another landscape painted at Gloucester. Hassam would receive numerous other awards throughout his career, most notably the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services to Fine Art from the American Dealers Association. A true master, Hassam depicted a way of life characteristic of both American and French society, and his work elucidates a critical chapter in American art history. Today, his work resides in the Oval Office of the White House and in numerous important museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others.
This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Circa 1905
Canvas: 24 1/2“ high x 20 18” wide
Frame: 35 7/8“ high x 31 1/4” wide x 3 1/4“ deep
Provenance:
Private Collection of William Young...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Spring Roundelay by Edward Atkinson Hornel
By Edward Atkinson Hornel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edward Atkinson Hornel
1864-1933 Scottish
A Spring Roundelay
Signed “E A Hornel” and dated 1910 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Visually arresting with the v...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
L’embarquement by Gaston La Touche
By Gaston La Touche
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gaston La Touche
1854 - 1913 French
L’embarquement
The Embarkment
Signed "Gaston La Touche" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A fashionable group of merrymakers boards a rowboat at sundown in this oil on panel by renowned French painter Gaston La Touche. Softly lit and lushly detailed, the work represents the artist’s talent for capturing the gaiety of the Belle Époque. With its luminous coloring and feathery brushwork, this oil evokes the style and joie de vivre of the era rendered in La Touche’s distinctive, mature style.
Fresh and airy, the work is a beautiful example of the artist’s skill at capturing the subtle qualities of light and color. Set against the plein air backdrop of a wooded pond awash in the soft glow of the golden hour, the scene reflects the influence of the Impressionists. The subject also recalls works by Manet, Monet and Renoir, who delighted in depictions of modern leisure among the expanding middle class. The scene is an informal one, and its unconventional cropping suggests that the viewer is invited to take a seat in the boat and join the group on their outing. Such relaxed, inviting scenes were remarkably popular among contemporary, modern audiences. However, La Touche's style is singular, possessing an element of fantasy and romance that set him apart from the Impressionists.
Gaston La Touche was born in St. Cloud, outside of Paris, in 1854, and he showed a keen interest in art from a young age. At ten years old, he began taking private art instruction, which lasted until 1870, when his family was forced to flee to Normandy amid the Franco-Prussian War. This was the only formal art training La Touche would ever receive. Despite his lack of Academy training, he made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1875 with a sculptural medallion and etchings, and he exhibited his first painting at the Salon of 1881. Although he began his career painting dark-toned realist compositions, by 1890, his style had shifted to what would become his signature — a lighter, brighter, idealistic society world.
The artist was associated with practically all of the most influential artists and thinkers of late 19th century France, including Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Émile Zola, who frequently met at the legendary Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes to share their thoughts on modern society. In 1900, he was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and an Officer in 1909. Additionally, he was well-decorated at the grand...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Panel, Oil
Bali by A. E. Herrmann
By A. E. Herrmann
Located in New Orleans, LA
A.E. Herrmann
Active in the 1920s Dutch
Bali
Signed "A.E. Herrmann 1932" (in lower right hand corner)
Oil on canvas
This enchanting work by Dutch artist, A.E. Herrmann depicts an exotic scene in Bali. In this magnificent painting depicting four Balinese women packing baskets, a vivid background is painted so that it is vibrant with the tropical colors of Indonesia. The stunning melon-hued temple becomes a focus in the painting and evokes a serene and mesmerizing scene of a faraway land.
Indonesia and in particular Bali and Java was an extremely important...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil
A Study of Two Models by Sir William Russell Flint
By William Russell Flint
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S.1880-1969 Scottish
A Study of Two Models
Signed "WRussell Flint" (bottom right)
Ethereal and sen...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Josianna, Jeune Femme au Ruban by Jean Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
1889-1962 French
Josianna, jeune femme au ruban
(Josianna, Young Woman With Ribbon)
Signed "Jean Gabriel Domergue" (lower left)
Oil on panel
A young French beauty known as Josianna is the subject of this work by Jean-Gabriel Domergue, and the oil on panel is a perfect example of the portraits for which the artist is renowned. His model embodies the concept of the la belle Parisienne: slender, swan-like women bearing an unmistakable grace and style. Domergue includes a delicate pink ribbon around her neck, suggesting a fashionable garment, set against a soft pastel-colored backdrop. The artist's oeuvre encompasses women from all facets of society, from aristocratic figures such as Liane de Pougy and Nadine, Baroness de Rothschild...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Panel, Oil
The Letter
By Andrea Landini
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-robed cardinal chuckles at the letter in his hand in this oil on canvas by the Italian painter Andrea Landini. The vibrantly hued piece illustrates the artist’s genius at rendering charming narratives in remarkable detail. Entitled The Letter, the work is a superb example of Landini's technical virtuosity — from the finely carved and upholstered chair to the neoclassical painting in the background, every detail is meticulously depicted.
Such works satirizing the clergy would have been severely censured just a generation earlier. Yet, by the time Landini picked up the brush, the European public had grown discontent with the hypocrisy of the clergy, many of whom enjoyed lavish lifestyles. Cardinal paintings such as this became highly popular during the period, and Landini emerged alongside Georges Croegaert, Marcel Brunery and Jehan Georges Vibert as the leading painters of the genre.
Born in Florence in 1847, Andrea Landini trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, first under the animal painter Riccardo Pasquini and later with religious painter Antonio Ciseri...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ondine
By Pierre Marcel-Béronneau
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mystical and mysterious, a mythological Ondine rests beside an ethereal forest pond in this majestic, original oil on canvas by French Symbolist Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Béronneau. A stu...
Category
20th Century Symbolist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Empire Gueridon
Located in New Orleans, LA
19th century Empire mahogany and ebony gueridon.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Pair 19th c. Painted and Gilded Appliques
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted, Carved and Gilded Wall Appliques
Category
19th Century French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Pair Bagues Style Sconces
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of Glass Parrot Sconces
Category
1940s French Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Tôle
19th c. Italian Majolica Urn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Beautifully Decorated Majolica Urn
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Ceramic
Empire Sèvres Porcelain Centerpiece
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fabulous Empire porcelain centerpiece.
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
Marilyn Monroe Photograph on Movie Set, 32/75
By Lawrence Schiller
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marilyn Monroe’s status as an enduring figure of glamour made her one of the most famous figures in American history. Of all the images shot of the incomparable movie star, the most ...
Category
20th Century Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Pensée Volante (The Flying Thought)
By Agustín Cárdenas
Located in New Orleans, LA
This striking conceptualization of "a flying thought" was composed by the famed Cuban-born artist Agustin Cárdenas. Entitled La Pensée Volante (The Fl...
Category
19th Century Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Portrait of a Beauty by William Clarke Wontner
By William Clarke Wontner
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Clarke Wontner
1857-1930 British
Portrait of a Beauty
Signed and dated "W. Wontner 1918" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Classical beauty a...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Married Love by Oscar Nemon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Oscar Nemon
1906 - 1985 Croatian
Married Love
Signed “Nemon” (on reverse)
Bronze resin with green patina
This rousing and sentimental sculpture, commis...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
18th c. Giltwood and Painted Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carved, Painted and Gilded Decorative Box
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Giltwood
Portrait of Noble Lady
By Nicolaes Maes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed and dated "N MAE / 1691" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A masterful example of 17th-century Dutch portraiture, this magnificent oil on canvas comes alive with luminous color, dramatic contrast and extraordinary detail. The work was composed by Nicolaes Maes, an artist widely regarded as the most prominent portrait painter of his era in Amsterdam. Fashionably styled, Portrait of a Noble Lady exemplifies the mature style of Maes, executed with the same artistry and attention to detail he imparted on his most important private commissions.
This work by Maes comes from the second half of his career and follows in the rich tradition of the great Flemish Baroque painters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. Like these artists, Maes excels at not only capturing his subjects with a technical perfection but also their inherent elegance and grace. The sitter is draped in luxurious white and red silks and pearls, underscoring the importance and prosperity of his wealthy clientele. She is placed against a dark backdrop, enabling a striking chiaroscuro effect characteristic of the artist’s portraits.
Maes’s immense talent for detail and composition is clearly evident. In both palette and proportion, it embodies the somewhat austere style preferred by the artist, which emphasized a painstaking study of the costumes, hairstyles and accessories of his subjects. Such elaborate and highly detailed costuming in portraiture was a fashionable way to show one's wealth in the 17th century, particularly among the emerging class of wealthy merchants. Similar works by the painter can be found in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), National Gallery (London), National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.
Nicolaes Maes was born in Dordrecht in 1634 to a prosperous cloth merchant. Around 1848, he moved to Amsterdam to study under Rembrandt for several years before returning to his native Dordrecht, where he established himself as a painter of genre scenes and portraits. In the 1650s, Maes traveled to Antwerp where he studied the work of Flemish artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens...
Category
17th Century Baroque Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gum Kids
By Leslie Thrasher
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two young children play an ill-advised game of gum stretching on the family couch in this charming composition by famed American illustrator, Leslie Thrasher. Painted towards the start of the Great Depression, Thrasher provided light-hearted images of the lives of everyday people to distract Americans from their troubles. These images appeared on the covers of Liberty Magazine, for whom he produced one cover illustration a week for six consecutive years.
Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Aoum II by Auguste Herbin
By Auguste Herbin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Auguste Herbin
1882-1960 French
Aoum II
Signed and dated 'herbin 1944' (lower right); titled "aoum" 2 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
This bold and vivid abstract oil on canvas was painted by French painter Auguste Herbin, a pioneer in popularizing Modernist abstraction. Over his expansive nearly 60-year career, Herbin rubbed shoulders with art history greats from Pablo Picasso to Georges Braque before honing his personal and innovative style. Entitled Aoum II, the painting stands apart for its daring color palette and crisp composition.
Painted in 1944, Aoum II embodies Herbin’s fully-formed artistic aesthetic and stylistic tenets. Only two years prior to its creation, Herbin developed his “alphabet plastique,” a synergistic visual language of color and form that he described in detail in his published book L’art non-figuratif non-objectif. Though the artist was highly cerebral in his process of creating art, one does not need to perfectly understand his principles to feel Aoum II's magnetism. The geometric shapes visible in the composition — primarily fragmented triangles and circles — are rendered in bold pinks, blues and yellows on a deep black background. His tiered application of color creates a natural three-register visual effect as if to tell a story from the apex of the form to its denouement.
Auguste Herbin began his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille before moving to Paris in 1901. In the early years of his career, he experimented with a variety of styles, exhibiting Post-Impressionistic works at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 and Fauvist paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1907. After a brief Cubist period following his introduction to Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Otto...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Canvas, Oil
From a Flying Fortress over England by Peter Hurd
By Peter Hurd
Located in New Orleans, LA
Peter Hurd
1904 - 1984 American
From a Flying Fortress over England
Signed, inscribed and dated: "Peter Hurd England 1942" (bottom left)
Watercolor on paper
Acclaimed American painter Peter Hurd demonstrates his mastery of capturing a specificity of place in his watercolor painting From a Flying Fortress over England. Hailing from his acclaimed “War Sketches,” Hurd’s trademark expressive brushwork and soft palette create an immersive, evocative scene.
The acclaimed “War Sketches” series began in 1942, when Hurd was invited by Life magazine to travel with the US Air Force as a War Correspondent. This assignment represented a convergence in Hurd’s interests, as the artist had graduated from the New Mexico...
Category
20th Century Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Untitled by George Terzian
By Georges Terzian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Terzian
1939-2021 French
Untitled
Signed “G.TERZIAN” (upper right); signed, titled and dated “GEORGES TERZIAN MARS 2005” (en verso)
Oil on c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barque De Peche En Mer By Henry Moret
By Henry Moret
Located in New Orleans, LA
Henry Moret
1856-1913 French
Barque de Peche en Mer
Fishing Boat at Sea
Signed and dated “Henry Moret 1912” (lower left)
Oil on canvas
A beautiful gestural composition imbued with the sublime beauty of the open sea, this oil on canvas by Impressionist Henry Moret showcases the artist's deft use of color and texture. One of the most celebrated painters of the Pont-Aven School, Moret’s lasting reputation is tied to his talent for capturing the bright skies, lively waterways and the diverse coastline of northern France. With a mastery of plein air composition and a deep appreciation for the natural world, Moret's Barque de Peche en Mer renders a fishing boat navigating through the ocean. Moret creates a visceral sense of the vitality of the water and the enormity of the open skies. The artist captures the vigorous energy of the sea with a profusion of green and blue hues applied with a thick impasto. Small yet mighty against the infinite backdrop, Moret's fishing boat forges ahead.
Henry Moret was born in Cherbourg in 1856, though little else is known about his early life. He entered military service as a young man in 1875, and it was during that period when Moret discovered the beauty of France’s northern coasts, particularly those of Normandy and Brittany. After his tour ended, he embarked on his artistic career, completing his formal education at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Leon Gérôme, and later, from about 1880, under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian.
He exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1880, submitting a landscape of the coast of Brittany. During his time in Paris, he frequently traveled to Brittany to paint the region he so loved. In 1888, he more firmly established himself in Pont-Aven, a town whose center had become an artistic refuge for artists such as the great Paul Gauguin, Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, Emile Jourdan and others. Under Gauguin's influence, he briefly explored the concept of Symbolism in his works, but after Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1891, Moret returned to his Impressionist roots. He formed a relationship with the famed dealer Durand-Ruel in 1895, and his career was officially launched. Today, his works can be found in important museums including the Manchester Art Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and others.
Dated 1912
Canvas: 28 3/4” high x 36 3/4” wide
Frame: 36 5/8" high x 44 1/8" wide
Exhibited:Henry Moret, Galerie Durand-Ruel, April 5-January 29, 1966, n° 47
Provenance:
Sale Marcel Bernheim...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Solitude
By Guillaume Seignac
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed “G-Seignac” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subje...
Category
19th Century Academic Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dans le parc en automne, Paris (In the Park in Autumn, Paris)
By Jean Francois Raffaëlli
Located in New Orleans, LA
This thoroughly modern Parisian scene was composed by the celebrated French painter Jean François Raffaëlli. The delicate oil captures a familiar subject from late 19th-century life in the city: a busy avenue at the edge of a park on a cool autumn day. Exploring the climate of the city, Raffaëlli's mature works capture the energy of the grand parks and boulevards of the new Paris that emerged at the turn of the century. His legacy documents the realities of urban life during his age, all chronicled in his distinctive brushwork and sophisticated palette.
While Raffaëlli was never fully accepted as a member of the Impressionist group, his works display a similar affinity for capturing the transient moments of modern life. His figures exude a sense of being suspended in time, as though they are part of some subtle narrative that is both restless and harmonious. Perhaps more aligned with Naturalism than Impressionism, the visual effect of Raffaëlli's composition is one of carefully composed spontaneity that makes manifest the joie de vivre of the age.
Raffaëlli was not the only artist of his era to devote his canvases to the urban landscape. Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte and others composed significant works on the subject of the urban milieu. On the whole, it was an entirely new kind of painting, and it was largely influenced by the work of social engineer Baron Haussmann beginning in the 1850s. At the request of Emperor Napoleon III, Haussmann designed and carried out a large-scale urban renewal program, erecting landmarks and tree-lined thoroughfares throughout the city to create a unified and socially-centered urban aesthetic. The city became a glittering stage for modern advancements and bourgeois pleasure, which paved the way for a new kind of subject that was eagerly adopted by the Impressionists and artistic avant-garde.
Born in Paris in 1850, Raffaëlli first studied theater and music before turning to painting in 1870. That same year, he submitted a landscape painting to the Salon and was accepted. Aside from just three months studying with the Academic great Jean-Léon Gérôme, Raffaëlli was self-trained, developing his own unique style that brought together Realism, Naturalism and Impressionism. While he managed to exhibit works at both the Salon and the Impressionist exhibitions...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Board, Oil
Composition sur le nom Herbin by Auguste Herbin
By Auguste Herbin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Auguste Herbin
1882-1960 French
Composition sur le nom Herbin
Signed and dated 'Herbin 1942' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This bold and vivid abstract oil on canvas was painted by...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair Antique French Carved Walnut and Marble-Top Night Tables, Circa 1880's.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique French Carved Walnut and Marble-Top Night Tables, Circa 1880's.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Marble
Pair of 19th Century Tole Lanterns
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of painted tole lanterns.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Tôle
Antique Early 19th C. French Provincial Hand Carved Elm and Burled Elm Bonnetier
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite, hand made, antique early 19th century French provincial, hand carved elm and stunning burled wood armoire with stunning original wrou...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Iron
Vintage Santon de Provence French Clay Doll Figurine Old Woman Holding Clay Pot
By Warranty Paris JB Depose
Located in New Orleans, LA
This highly collectible and fascinating figurine represents the santon of Provence.
The santon is made of terra-cotta (head, body, legs, forearms, hands, feet,). The base is made of wood. The arms are connected to the body and allow articulation (simultaneously lift both arms)
Traditional dress of lovely provincial fabrics and delicate lace representing french Provence.
Series of French santons...
Category
1930s French Folk Art Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Clay
Pair 18thc. Stone Brackets
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carved Stone Brackets
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Limestone
19th Century Giltwood Watch Holder
Located in New Orleans, LA
Beautifully carved figural giltwood pocket watch stand.
Category
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Paris Porcelain Tea Set
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fabulous Porcelain Tea Set
Category
19th Century French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
19th c. Oil Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
oil painting with beautiful subject
signed 1870
signed 1870
Category
French Color Metallic Silver
17th c. Wooden Applique
Located in New Orleans, LA
17th c. Wooden Polychromed Applique
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Emerald-Cut Aquamarine Ring, 43.37 Carats
Located in New Orleans, LA
With the stunning blue hue of a clear tropical ocean, the incredible 43.37-carat emerald-cut aquamarine at the center of this ring is absolutely captivating. This specimen possesses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Aquamarine, Diamond, White Diamond, Platinum
Pink and Yellow Sapphire Bracelet
Located in New Orleans, LA
Showcasing approximately 46.00 carats of yellow sapphires and 26.00 carats of pink, the rare gems in this incredible bracelet display the vibrant and desirable hues for which preciou...
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Pink Sapphire, Yellow Sapphire, Diamond, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
"Gouda Vase with Blue Pitcher" - Framed Contemporary Still Life Painting
By Ursula Andrejuk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in Poland and trained in old-school oil painting techniques, Ursula Andrejuk later married and moved to the U.S., continuing to paint in her luscious, realistic style. You can a...
Category
2010s Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oil
White Diamond North-South Ring, 7.98 Carat
Located in New Orleans, LA
Known as a North-South ring for its vertical design, this glorious platinum jeweled creation features a total of 7.98 carats of white diamonds. The center diamond is cushion shaped w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
White Diamond, Diamond, Platinum
Exceptional 18th Century Swedish Daybed
Located in New Orleans, LA
Highly decorative 18th century Swedish daybed with original patina.
Category
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Empire Gilded and Painted Daybed
Located in New Orleans, LA
19th century Empire daybed painted black with gilded carved accents. Elegant sleigh profile gilded in leaf pattern sits atop legs adorned with leaf detail gilding. Upholstered in com...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Antique Fruitwood French Farmhouse Grain Scoop
Located in New Orleans, LA
Full of character and rich in history, this antique French Provincial fruitwood grain scoop was once simply utilitarian, used to shovel oats into sacks. This fruitwood scoop has a lo...
Category
1830s French French Provincial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Fruitwood
Pair Rosenthal Group Germany Monbijou Classic.Rose Collection Crystal Candlestic
By Rosenthal
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vintage Rosenthal, Germany crystal classic rose candle holders 6 1/4" signed/mint condition, 1980’s.
A perfect gift for the host or hostess of a we...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Glass
Antique English Inlaid Mahogany Tilt Top Side Table
Located in New Orleans, LA
A fine antique English Edwardian, inlaid and beautifully figured mahogany tilt top side table, circa 1900-1910, the oval top on a turned s...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Limoges Art Nouveau Roses Jardiniere
Located in New Orleans, LA
Limoges hand painted red roses antique vase. Outstanding artwork on the roses on this large Limoges antique vase. It is eleven inches tall and ni...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage 1930’s Frosted Glass Figural Vanity Lamp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A vintage 1930’s oval ladies vanity lamp depicting a gentleman and his lady in frosted glass on a beautifully reticulated polished brass base with pierced feet. I lovely homage to a ...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Brass
Vintage Set of Four Shannon Irish Crystal Sutton Place Water Goblets
By Shannon Crystal
Located in New Orleans, LA
Offered for sale are four stemmed
Shannon by Godinger Sutton Place
Crystal water goblets, features are vertical cuts and crisscross pattern on upper portion of the bowl, stem has a b...
Category
1920s European Art Nouveau Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Crystal
Hermes Heure H 18K Yellow Gold Watch
By Hermès
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Hermes Heure H collection is renowned for its symbolic representation of the brand's identity through the clever use of the "H" case shape, making it an emblematic piece for coll...
Category
20th Century Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique French Provincial Hand Painted Faience Oil Lamp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lovely antique French provincial hand painted faience oil lamp having lovely Country French colors of robins egg blue, reds, oranges, greens, and pinks.
Category
1850s French French Provincial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Brass
Antique French Blue Sèvres Porcelain and Bronze D' Ore Clock, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Blue Sèvres Porcelain and bronze D' Ore Clock, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond Mesh Bracelet, 28.40 Carats
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exquisite bracelet includes an array of beautifully matched fancy vivid yellow diamonds totaling 28.40 carats. The sunny yellow diamonds are bordered by 7.43 carats of white dia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
White Diamond, Yellow Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold
Van Cleef & Arpels Amethyst And Peridot Earrings, 18.00 Carats
By Van Cleef & Arpels
Located in New Orleans, LA
These exquisite Van Cleef & Arpels earrings are adorned with colorful flush set square cut amethyst and peridot, totaling a combined 18.00 carats. Their practical clip-on design rend...
Category
20th Century French Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Amethyst, Peridot, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
