Salvatore Testa Figurative Paintings

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...

Few painters of the Orientalist school brought such theatrical precision to their work as Ludwig Deutsch. Trained in Vienna and later based in Paris, Deutsch became one of the great ...

Louis-Alexandre CABIÉ (Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939) Landes at Pessac, near Bordeaux - Gironde Oil on canvas H. 126 cm; W. 201 cm Signed lower left Louis Cabié, a renowned a...

Amédée Elié Servin — (1829-1884) : Children playing in a forest A nice and confidently painted scene of three children playing in the midst of a dark forest. Through clever use of colour and light and dark effects, Elié Servin creates a mysterious and fairytale-like scene in which all attention is drawn to the playing children. Amédée-Élie Servin (1829-1884) Servin Amédée-Élie was a French painter and engraver, founder of the artistic community of Villiers-sur-Morin. Servin was born to a tanner, who, disappointed by his son's failure in his studies, apprenticed him to an upholsterer where he learned to draw cartoons. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under the painter Michel Martin Drolling. At this school, he befriended students of his generation, such as Jean-Jacques Henner, Benjamin Ulmann and Paul Baudry...

Robert De Rouge Canvas Size: 55 x 38" Outside frame Size: 65 x 48" Signed and dated 1881 Oil on canvas This was painted as a private commission with the crest of arms visible at the...

Marianne Loir (Paris 1705 – Paris 1783) Presumed Portrait of Jean-Jacques-Blaise Baloin de Belvèse, Baron de Vennac (?-1781) Oil on oval canvas H. 54.5 cm; W. 46 cm Unsigned Grandda...

A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...

A fine grisaille oil painting on canvas of putti in the clouds, unsigned, labeled on verso BOUCHER (genre de Francois), titled “Amours sur des nuages jouant avec des colombes ” (literally translated “cupids on clouds playing with doves”), dating to the 19th century, unframed. French artist Francois Boucher (1707-1770) was well known for Rococo portrait, landscape and mythology painting...

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...

Ange-René RAVAULT (Montargis, 1766 – Montargis, 1845) Portrait of a family from the Montargis or Pithiviers region Oil on canvas H. 73 cm; W. 60 cm Signed and dated lower left 1819 ...

Artist André Strauss was known for painting outdoors, on the motif. It gives his paintings a wonderful freshness and immediacy - you feel as if you were right there, in the grounds o...

This exquisite late 19th-century oil painting by German artist Adelaïde Salles-Wagner (1825-1890) depicts a mother feeding her baby with a silver spoon. Salles-Wagner is known predom...