Charles Joshua Chaplin’s celebrated portraits of young women are reminiscent of the 18th-century romanticism of Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88) and François Boucher (1703–70) but his subjects are nevertheless recognizable as more modern Belle Epoque women. The critical and commercial success of Chaplin’s beautifully lit portraits of sensual young women captured en déshabillé established him as one of the foremost French academic painters of the period. By the late 50s, Chaplin was being inundated with commissions from the French aristocracy requesting portraits of their wives and daughters. Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, was also a big fan and appointed him an artist of the court. The Empress and her husband’s enthusiastic support came in handy when, in 1859, his portrait Aurora was banned by the judges of the Salon in Paris for being "too erotically suggestive". The disqualification order was subsequently overturned when Napoleon III himself sprung to Chaplin’s defense. During his lifetime, Chaplin was awarded numerous medals at the Salon in Paris and, in 1865, he was declared a Chevalier and later Officer of la Légion d’Honneur (1881). Today his works are held in the collections of the Louvre in Paris, Hermitage in St Petersburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Rural Life in Summer: 19th C Island Village Scene, Figures and Animals painting
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful and idyllic, mid 19th Century summery village scene, where a pretty young girl stands, knitting (perhaps she is secretly waiting for someone?), village women eat and work...
Canvas, Oil
$36,000Sale Price|20% Off
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - French Painting
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Oil
$28,450Sale Price|36% Off
Pair 19th Century French Whimsical Oil on Canvas "Cherubs and Putti Children"
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in LA, CA
Charles Joshua Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) A Very Fine and Charming Pair of 19th Century French Whimsical Oils on Canvas of Cherubs and Putti, after François Boucher (French, 1703–17...
Canvas, Oil
$45,000
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - like Bouguereau French painter
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Oil
Portrait of Madame M.L. - Original Lithograph by Charles Joshua Chapli - 1884
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Madame M.L. is a beautiful lithograph on brown paper realized by Charles Joshua Chaplin in 1884 as cover of the Catalogue off the "Salon" in Paris in 1884. A woman, sitting on clouds and reading a book with angels in celebration, is the personification of the poetry. This modern artwork, signed and titled on plate on lower corner "Portrait de M.L., d'apres Ch.Chaplin" , is realized with a very fresh impression and a rapid linein good conditions, except for a diffused foxing. Inscription in the top of the plate, 15 Cent. le Numero - Administration_ 15, rue Daunou, Paris - Le Matin - Supplement Illustre Tableaux du Salon de 1884. Charles Joshua Chaplin ( Les Andelys, 1825 –Paris 1891) Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques and was best known for his elegant portraits of young women. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Paris from 1840, he was a private pupil of Michel Martin Drolling whose apprentices included Paul Baudry...
Lithograph
Diana after the Hunt - Etching by Charles Joshua Chaplin - 1870s
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Roma, IT
Diana after the Hunt is a black and white etching realized by Charles Chaplin (1825 – 1891) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 19cmx24cm. Very Good condition. Signed in t...
Etching
$225
La Poésie - Etching by Charles Joshua Chaplin - Mid 19th Century
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Roma, IT
La Poésie is a beautiful black and white etching on paper realized by Charles Joshua Chaplin around the middle of XIX century. A woman, sitting on clouds and reading a book with angels in celebration, is the personification of the poetry. This modern artwork, signed on plate on lower right corner "Ch." , is realized with a very fresh impression and a rapid linein good conditions, except for a diffused foxing. A white cardboard passepartout is included cm 50 x 32.3. Charles Joshua Chaplin ( Les Andelys, 1825 –Paris 1891) Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques and was best known for his elegant portraits of young women. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Paris from 1840, he was a private pupil of Michel Martin Drolling whose apprentices included Paul Baudry...
Etching
Indiscretion - Lithograph by Charles Joshua Chaplin - 19th Century
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Roma, IT
Indiscretion is a print realized by Charles Chaplin in the mid-19th century. Lithograph on paper. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with foxing.
Lithograph
Beach landscape on Atlantic French coast
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jean-Georges PASQUET (Périgueux 1851 - 1936) Pointe de Suzac at Saint Georges de Didonne Oil on canvas H. 59 cm; W. 85 cm Signed and dated 1885 lower left Provenance: Private collec...
Oil, Canvas
Classical Naturalistic Style Italian Allegory Study
Located in Houston, TX
Classical style allegorical painting with puti and monarchy type figures floating within the clouds. The canvas is framed in a decorative gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 43.5...
Oil
$1,185
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in
André Planson - French Province - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Andre Planson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Planson - French Province Original Lithograph Handsigned Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Lithograph
Orientale
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin Provenance: Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son: Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
Canvas, Paper, Oil
$64,850
H 66 in W 51 in D 6.5 in
Large & Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Water Carrier Lady"
By Jules Salles-Wagner
Located in LA, CA
Jules Salles-Wagner (French, 1814-1898) A Large and Impressive French, 19th century oil on canvas "The Water Carrier Lady" depicting a standing and posing young peasant girl holding ...
Oil
$12,450
H 28.98 in W 21.3 in D 0.4 in
After Pablo Picasso - The Dwarf Dancer - Handsigned and Dedicated Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 The Dwarf Dancer (Barcelona Series) - 1966 Framed Offset Color lithograph signed, dated and dedicated at the bottom "For L...
Lithograph
$1,650,000
H 49.38 in W 57 in D 6 in
Young Mother Contemplating Two Embracing Children by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 French Jeune mère contemplant deux enfants qui s'embrassent (Young Mother Contemplating Two Embracing Children) Signed “W-Bouguereau” (bottom ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,100
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The glass mountain shattered David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,500Sale Price|50% Off
H 35.5 in W 19.5 in D 1 in
PASSION #3 - nude male painting by Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Passion #3" . Composition with Two Male Nudes, oil on canvas, 35.5x19.5in / 90x50cm Part of "Wings of Gods" solo show, April 2024. see pictures from the show. Shipped as it is, stre...
Canvas, Oil
$2,400Sale Price|40% Off
H 24 in W 32.5 in D 2.5 in
Late 19th Century Reclining Nude California School
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century California School reclining nude female figure by anonymous 19th Century artist. In the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. ...
Canvas, Oil
The painter's rest in Denmark
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Carl SCHLICHTING-CARLSEN (Flensburg 1842 – Hellebæk 1931) The Painter's Rest Oil on canvas H. 130 cm; W. 93 cm Signed and dated lower left – S. Carlsen (18)94 This artist of German ...
Canvas, Oil
$450
H 37.25 in W 25.25 in D 0.3 in
Original 1918, Sure! We'll Finish the Job, Victory Liberty Loan, vintage poster
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1918 Gerrit A. Beneker "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" Victory Liberty Loan Poster, archival linen-backed in good condition, ready to frame. Grade B+ An iconic and authentic ...
Lithograph
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H 22.84 in W 16.93 in D 1.58 in
Female portrait, Oil on Canvas France XIX Century
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. The extremely sensual portrait of the woman in skimpy clothes and in a languid pose belongs to the peculiar portrait production of the Fren...
Oil
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H 18.12 in W 16.15 in D 1.97 in
Young lady in her boudoir, brushing hair in the morning antique French painting
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful intimate domestic scene by Charles Joshua Chaplin 1825-1891) . Like Vermeer's milkmaid, the young woman in the painting seems lost in thought, completely in a world of her own...
Canvas, Oil
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H 36 in W 26 in D 4 in
L'Extase - 19th Century French Portrait Oil Painting of Belle Epoque Nude
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘L’Extase’ by Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891). The painting - which depicts a young Parisienne society beauty captured en déshabillé - is inscribed by the artist verso and sold in a superb quality bespoke gold metal leaf neoclassical frame. As one of his most popular paintings...
Oil
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H 35 in W 25 in
Belle Femme en Déshabillé - 19th Century French Salon Portrait of Society Beauty
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
This is a large fine 19th century oil painting portrait of a young society beauty captured in semi-undress by the eminent French Academic painter Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891). ...
Oil
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H 7 in W 6 in
A Game of Chance - 19th Century Oil, Young Girls Figures in Interior by Chaplin
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on canvas. Framed dimensions are 15 inches high by 14 inches wide. Born in Les Andelys, Eure, France in 1825 to an English father and a French mother, Charles Chaplin waited nea...
Canvas, Oil
Ecstasy
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful, serene oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Born in Les Andelys, Eure, France in 1825 to an English father and a French mother, Charles Chaplin waited nearly a lifetime to...
Canvas, Oil
Nymphs Resting
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful classic serene painting of a nymphs resting, 19th century oil on panel. Signed lower left. The son of an English father and a French mother, Chaplin became a naturalised...
Canvas, Oil
Cherub & Dove
By Charles Joshua Chaplin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful classic serene painting of a cherub and dove, 19th century oil on panel. Signed lower left. The son of an English father and a French mother, Chaplin became a naturali...
Oil, Panel