Antonio Rivas Paintings

Emile CHAUMONT (Perigueux 1877 - 1927) Summer landscape in Périgord Oil on panel H. 32 cm; L. 41 cm Signed lower left, dated 1912 Provenance: Private c...

Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.

Hercules and Omphale Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm According to legend, Hercules had to make atonement and became a slave to the Lydian queen Omphale. When she found out who her slave was, she married him. Falling for his mistress and made effeminate by the luxury of court life, the former hero allowed himself to become the laughing stock of the court. He dressed in women's clothes, spun wool and did other women's work, whereas Omphale wore his lion's skin and carried a wooden club. When the time of punishment was over, the hero realised his delusion and left Omphale. So far, the painting could not be clearly assigned to an artist. Nevertheless, it impresses with its fluid and convincing painting, whose colourfulness and conception are reminiscent of the Prague School around Bartholomäus Spranger. This work follows an engraving and an etching made by Michel Dorigny in 1643 after a design by Simon Vouet. It shows the same scene but the print differs in minor details from the present painting (see e.g. the head of the lion) and the treatment of the faces seems to be painted more detailed and refined. So far there is no painting...

Circle of Ruisdael, Riders in a Landscape passing by a well

Paul LUNAUD (Brantôme 1900 – 1949) The ironer Oil on wood H. 80 cm; W. 64 cm Signed and dated on the right in the center, formerly signed lower right. 1942 Provenance : Artist's stu...

Italian school circa 1560, circle of Bernardino Campi Portrait of a woman with a book Oil on panel H. 78 cm ; L. 57cm

Louis-Alexandre CABIE (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) The rock of Cayre-Vézère in Les Eyzies in the summer of 1900 Oil on panel H. 52 cm; L. 36 cm Signed lower right, dated 19...

Attributed to Peter Candid / Pieter de Witte (Bruges c. 1540 - 1628 Munich) Sacra Conversazione Oil on wood, 29 x 37 cm The painter, sculptor and architect Peter Candid, known in Italy as Pietro Candido, was born in Bruges between 1540 and 1548. In the 1560s he stayed in Florence, where he worked in the workshop of Giorgio Vasari, with whom he collaborated on a number of commissions for the House of Medici. After a brief stay in Volterra, he went to Munich in 1586. For the next 42 years, until his death, he remained court painter to Duke William V...

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) l'Aumance à Hérisson - Allier Oil on panel H. 26.5 cm; W. 35 cm Signed lower left, dated 1899, located Titled on the back...

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) Farmyard in Andernos Oil on panel H. 39 cm; L. 52 cm Signed lower right and dated 1889 Louis Cabié, renowned artist in F...

Charming tavern scene depicting drunken peasants enjoying dancing and drinking in front a farmhouse/ tavern in a landscape. Painted in great detail in vivid colors on a hand cut oak ...

Attributed to Godfried SCHALKEN (Made 1643 – The Hague 1706) Young fischer Oil on panel in one board H. 32.5 cm; L. 25.5 cm Around 1670/75 Related works: - Autograph version with nu...