Alex Berdal Furniture

A romantic collection of dried, pressed Botanicals, well preserved with calligraphy and Latin description, describing each piece, place found and date. One may purchase as many as on...

The brilliant colors of this French nature morte are quite impressive, allowing the imagery to be seen crystal clear. Oil enhancements have been applied to this 20th-century transferred image to evoke similarities to the painting that it is after, which is currently housed in Le Louvre Museum in Paris. Our version is incredibly well-done and true to the Alexandre François Desportes original, which is entitled Game, Fruit, Flowers, and a Dog (1712). A variety of felled game (a rabbit and six birds) and a hunting rifle are displayed next to a stone fountain with a mythical creature mascaron water feature. The gadrooned basin is not filled with water, but rather a woven basket of blueberries next to a cluster of fruits including peaches and cherries (there is also a blue and white ceramic bowl full of peaches on a stone to the right of the fountain). Vibrant flowers in a wicker basket sit atop the thickly molded entablature of the cream-colored fountain. A pink rose bush grows on one side of the fountain, opposite from large, verdant bushes that obscure most of the blue sky. Laying beneath the fountain basin is a white hunting dog with black markings on its ears and face. Desportes was born in 1661 in Champigneulle, in northern France, later studying in Paris with the Flemish painter, Bernaerts. Initially, Desportes was a well-respected portrait painter, living in Poland during his mid-thirties to paint aristocrats such as King John III Sobieski. Upon the king’s death, Desportes returned to Paris and switched his focus to painting animals and floral arrangements. Both Louis XIV and Louis XIV commissioned Desportes to paint portraits of their favorite hunting dogs. Desportes would often join the kings on royal hunts, where he would travel with a notebook for still life sketches...

Beautiful engraving entitled the painter in love with his model engraved by J. B. Michel. It is enhanced with watercolour. It represents a painter in his studio in full creation in f...

Large oil on canvas by Alex Berdal

20th century framed block print.

PARIS ETCHING SOCIETY - Sydney Z. Lucas - Post Impressionist style color print on paper - artist signed lower right - titled in French lower left - conta...

A pair of framed fine art original primitive prints of Parisian street scenes by French artist Michel Delacroix, signed, framed in wood by Arteriors, double matted, and behind glass,...

Lithograph by Van Der Brugen, signed and numbered 50/100, 20th century. Large format, framed. Measures: H 61 cm and 84 cm with frame, L 90 cm and 113 cm with frame, D 2 cm.

17th century pair of engravings by Carlo Cesio, (Italian 1626-1686) depicting painting by Annibale Carracci.

Pair of depicting 'Homme and Femme de la Frise' or 'Frisian Man and Woman', people of the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands. The first showing the man in a wonderful n...

Concerto II Signed Abstract Print by Trans Designs, USA, 20th Century.

20th century "The Blew-bird" print, a copy of the engraving by Mark Catesby. Plate 47 from Catesby's "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" folio originall...