Alex Berdal Wall Decorations

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...

A very pretty pair of 18th-century engravings depicting two elegant women with hairstyles in the fashion of the time. These engravings come from the magazine "Le Cabinet des Modes ou...

Large colorful vintage scarf, featuring a woman with her new born with red blue yellow and white colors, on an abstract background Having the signature of the artist PICASSO on the ...

Nice engraving illustrating the proverb "Spare The Rod And Spoil The Child » (Qui aime bien, châtie bien). The scene takes place in a 19th century bourgeois interior. On the mantelpi...

Late 20th C, England, a set of three reproduction prints depicting architectural engravings based on the temples found at Kew Gardens, London. The designs are attributed to Sir Willi...

Collection of nine 20th Century Swedish engravings of water birds. The Von Wright water birds are by the Finnish artists Magnus von Wright (1805 - 1868) and Wilhelm von Wright (1810 ...

Early 19th Century French engraved and hand coloured botanical studies. Including Belladonna, Datura, Digitalis and Poppy from 'Phytography médicale, histoire des substances héroiqu...

M. FORSYTHE - 'Ash' - # 37/100 - Vintage fine art engraving on paper - signed and numbered - stained wood frame with gilt detail - under glass - grey bevel edged matte board - Canada...

Collection of nine 20th Century Swedish engravings of cuckoos. The Von Wright ducks are by the Finnish artists Magnus von Wright (1805 - 1868) and Wilhelm von Wright (1810 - 1887) wh...

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...

Abstract in browns and red on ecru. Pencil signed indistinctly (possibly Y. Bishop) and dated 73 lower right, numbered 64/70 lower left. Embossed French gallery mark lower right. Fra...