Alex Berdal Prints

A charming French miniature fashion engraving, probably Paris, dating from around 1780. The finely engraved image depicts an elegant lady wearing an elaborate coiffure with a strikin...

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...

From: 'Costumes of Various Countries' by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, circa 1797. Hand colored engravings on paper. 'Hollandie', showing a mother and child in native costume fro...

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...

Elegant 20th century lithograph-aquatint signed and dated lower right, numbered 10/40 lower middle and titled lower left in pencil. Actual size without the frame 35" x 23".5.

A set of 4 colored, framed engravings from the "Triumphal Procession of Maximilian I." The standard-bearers are depicted in their finest attire, adorned with sumptuous costumes and ...

Original Early 20th Century French Engraving Print, Art Deco Era Engraving Print Louis XIV Style Fashion Focused Engraving Print A fine French engraving print from well listed print...

A beautiful and colorful lithograph that would enhance any space. Professionally framed and signed. This very good quality colorful lithograph of a French countryside will enhance...

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...

Engraving of the interior of St. Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, by Howarth, English. Signed lower right Albany E. Howarth (British, 1872-1936). Howarth was a member of The Royal Society of ...

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...