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Cavalry Charge 1st Empire - Edouard Detaille - French art
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good original Conditions including a beautiful frame. Framed under glass, this rare composition for sale is an exceptionnel piece for Art collectors.
Signed and d...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Amsterdam canal - Noorderkerk church
By John Mackie (b.1955)
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Very good overall Conditions. Remarquable technique. Note a folded trace on the upper left. Pastel on carton board signed lower right J Mackie 1996.
Framed. No glass. Fr...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Pastel
Jean-Pierre DUBORD (1949) "French "Le quai à La Bouille en hiver" Oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Jean-Pierre DUBORD (1949) "Le quai à La Bouille en hiver"- Oil on Canvas in very good overall Conditions. Signed lower left. Artist inscription on the back. Framed. F...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition with flowers and peaches
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Very good overall Conditions. This colorfull flower composition on canvas is proposed with an original early 20th century frame.
Results for this artist: 3000 - 5000 EU...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with fishermen by a lake
By Reginald Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall Conditions. Framed under glass.
Arthur Reginald Smith (1871-1934)
Though most associated with his fresh and silvery watercolours of his native York...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape in the Fontainebleau forest
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Excellent overall Conditions. No prior restorations under UV light. Signed lower left "P Vernon". An oil on wood panel. The frame is an original french stuck frame. ( m...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shepherdess in the Fontainebleau forest. Barbizon. O/P Signed LR
Located in PARIS, FR
Exquisite painting, very fine composition in good condition. Minor restauration under UV light. No further restauration necessary. An oil on board signed lower right ’Paul Vernon’....
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Country Cottage houses
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. Provenance: Family of the artist.
Frame and glass options available.
Shipping included for all Continental USA, Asia and Europe.
The fr...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Clay, Watercolor
Élégante dans un Parc.
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Frame in excellent Conditions, XIXth period with golden leaf.
The painting show a signature on the lower right part " Pierre Sezille des Essarts"
Minor retouching on th...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Nymphe endormie
By Jean-Jacques Henner
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Old varnish and minor retouching on the nose.
Orignal frame in excellent condition. Medal plate Henner.
Jean-Jacques Henner was born on March 5...
Category
1890s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rowboats on the Seine in Normandy - French Impressionism by Jean Pierre Dubord
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Mint
We have an option for an antique style frame. Price including frame
Shipping in all Continental US and Asia or Europe included.
Jean Pierre Dubord was born in Roue...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snowy effects - Landscape by the Seine in Normandy France by Jean Pierre Dubord
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions. Mint
We have an option of antique style frame. Price including frame.
Jean Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949, and after spending years in the French countryside, h...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in a Castle interior
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions.
Provenance: Bonhams sale, MA. US
Oil on canvas framed, signed René Lelong on the lower right part.
FREE SHIPPING IN ALL CONTINENTAL USA.
René L...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the canal - Venezia
By John Mackie (b.1955)
Located in PARIS, FR
John Mackie (born 1953)
Born in Glasgow, he works in oils, watercolors, and pastels. After studying at the Glasgow School of Art, he won the W. H. Shanks Prize for Drawing in 1976 an...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Excellent overall conditions. Signed upper right and dated 1889.
Painter and Teacher at the Academy des Beaux-Arts of Brussels.
Isidore Verheyden :
Peintre belge de pay...
Category
1890s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Montmartre, la place du tertre Paris by Frank Will
By Frank Will
Located in PARIS, FR
Painter and Aquarellist. Nanterre (92) March 13th 1900 – Clichy (Seine) Dec 29th 1950.
He was the son of Frank Boggs, an American citizen. He started his career with the nickname “Wi...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Composition with rooster and hens
Located in PARIS, FR
Louis Reinhardt or Ludwig Reinhardt (born 1849 in Plauen; born late October 1870 in Traunsee) was a German painter.
Reinhardt waged war on a animal and landscape painter of spätroman...
Category
1860s French School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage french art painting-Normandy cliffs near Etretat-oil by Léon Richet
By Leon Richet
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall with a genuine oil on board original period gilt frame.
Minor 3 mm retouching under UV light. (As seen on picture).
Free US CONTINENTAL Shipping, incl...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian vintage art painting by Vincent Clare-large fruit composition.
By Vincent Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Immaculate and large original canvas. No prior restoration under UV light. Original frame and canvas. Size including frame is 67 x 51 cm. Price offer considered for both fine a...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french art - Cottage farm - A Normandy Village w/Church O/C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall Conditions, few minor retouching, original canvas.
No restauration necessary. Free shipping worlwide by DHL, FEDEX.
His father, the theater decorator...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
SOLD - Vintage painting - FRIED PAL Paris, Opera Ballerina in pink, O/C
Located in PARIS, FR
SOLD - Conditions : Original canvas with artist stamp. Free shipping all Continental US, and all other countries, Europe, Asia etc...
Fried was born in Budapest and studied at the H...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17thDutch painting by Tengnagel Jan 1584-1635 - The meeting of David and Abigail
Located in PARIS, FR
Free shipping all Continental US, and all other countries, Europe, Asia etc...
Enhance your space with this captivating vintage painting by Tengnagel Jan (1584-depicting The meeting...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tengnagel Jan 1584-1635 "David and Abigail "
Located in PARIS, FR
CERTIFICATE BY PROF MARCEL ROETHLISBERGER
Jan Tengnagel
Amsterdam c.1584/85 - 1635
David and Abigail in a Landscape
Oil on panel. 57 x 87 cm.
"I have recently seen this previously ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage art - French cottage. Landscape with houses. O/C, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Excellent overall condition. Analysis under UV light shows no retouching, and no prior restaurations. Original canvas.
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian vintage art by Dibdin, watercolor tempera - 1863
Located in PARIS, FR
Excellent condition. Mint.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Thomas Colman Dibdin was an illustrator and painter. Born at Bletchworth, Surrey, on 22 October 1810,...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Vintage art portrait by Gervex Henry, Study for a Woman. Oil, signed.
By Henri Gervex
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Excellent overall conditions. Oil on canvas framed. Mint. Free US
No prior restorations under UV light.
FREE CONTINENTAL shipping in all States, incl Europe and Asia.
H...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage art portrait - Paris, belle epoque, two elegant ladies - pastel signed
By Paul Hoeniger
Located in PARIS, FR
Currently Under restoration by professionnal.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Presale order accepted. Yes.
Paul Hoeniger studied at the art academies in Ber...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Antique art painting with sheeps in a barn
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: In excellent overall conditions, with no repaint under UV light, original canvas and frame. Signed Lower left "Ls Reinhardt". Dimensions with the frame are approximately...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french oil by René Lelong- Lady on a path by the ocean
By René Lelong
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. Oil on original canvas signed lower left.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
René Lelong studied at the Académie Julian f...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french Impressionism by Jean Dubord - oil signed
By Jean-Pierre Dubord
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. The canvas is mounted on an antique style frame decorated with pearls. Signed lower right.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and A...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage art painting by Camille Delpy - Normandy house
By Hippolyte Camille Delpy
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Hippolyte Camille Delpy, born April 16, 1842 in Joigny (Yonne) and died June 5, 1910 i...
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian vintage art by Vincent Clare - Oil Composition with flowers and a nest
By Vincent Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Condition. Framed under glass original.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
The Clare family, Victorian artists, specialised and becam...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Vintage portrait of a nude by Antoine Calbet - pastel signed
By Antoine Calbet
Located in PARIS, FR
Mint condition, vivid colors.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Antoine Calbet: A Master of Academic Realism in the Third Republic
A Distinguished Journey
Antoine...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
ANTOINE CAMBOUR. The poppy field near Giverny, oil on canvas, signed lower left
Located in PARIS, FR
Claude Cambour: A Life of Light and Impressionism
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Claude Cambour, born in Dreux, west of Paris, in ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian vintage fine art painting by Clare Vincent - fruits and grapes
By Vincent Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions ; Excellent condition, original canvas frame, no prior retouching or restauration, and no future restauration necessary. Original Victorian gilet frame in perfect conditio...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french art by Eugène Galien Laloue - oil signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall Conditions. Few minor retouching under UV light. Original canvas. No restauration necessary.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
His f...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage art portrait of french village by Eugène Galien Laloue - oil signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall Conditions, few minor retouching, original canvas.
No restauration necessary, mint conditions.
Free US CONTINENTAL Shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Hi...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage oil painting by Vincent Clare - fruit and apples oil signed
By George Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Condition: Excellent overall Condition. Original canvas and frame. No restauration necessary. No retouching under UV light. Dimensions with frame 28 x 34 cm.
Free US CONTINENTAL Shi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage painting by Vincent Clare - dead nature art composition- oil on canvas.
By Vincent Clare
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Very good overall condition. Edge right, visible under UV Light, minor retouching (5mm). The frame is period frame original baring stickers from Galleries in London. Low...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
French art by Francois Grenier - Empire era, woman by a spring, oil on canvas.
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. Signed lower left F Grenier. Original canvas Durand Ruel. Very rare. High quality fine art of the Napoleonic era.
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Admire the exquisite beauty of this rare French art piece by Francois Grenier, formed by Jacques Louis David. Painted in the Empire style, this stunning oil on canvas features a captivating scene of a woman at a spring. Add a touch of elegance to your space with this remarkable artwork. Truly a masterpiece that deserves a place in your collection.
François Grenier de Saint-Martin was a French painter and a student of Jacques-Louis David as well as Pierre Narcisse Guerin...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french art by Paul Emile Lecomte - Provence - oil signed on carton.
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance fron the Family Atelier of the artist. Framing options* available.
* Frame at an additional charge
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Born in Paris, the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Tempera
Vintage french art by Louis Cabat - cottage in Normandy - oil on canvas, signed.
Located in PARIS, FR
A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Michel Rodrigue accompanies the work.
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Older restauration in the upper part under UV light. Canvas relined...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french art painting by Paul emile Lecomte - oil on canvas, signed
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Old exhibition label. Free US CONTINENTAL Shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Provenance: Artist's family, atelier sale. Excellent condition under UV light with no prior restoration. T...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paul emile Lecomte - study of the quais by the river - pencil - signed.
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Family of the artist, studio sale. Signed in pencil lower right.
SHIPPING: Continental USA and Worldwide delivery included
Born in Paris, the French painter Paul Lecomt...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Paul emile Lecomte. Paris - animated view of the Pantheon - pencil on carton.
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Family of the artist, studio sale.
*Period Frame option available. Price: 550 euros including shipping.
Price : 300 euros without frame / incl shipping
Free US CONTI...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Paul emile Lecomte. Paris -The Carrousel and the Louvre pencil on paper, signed
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Family of the artist, studio sale. Framing options available upon request.
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Born in Paris, the French painter Paul Lec...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French art painting by Alfred Smith - Bordeaux, a Tramway, collector piece.
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Minor retouching on the upper part, original canvas with frame.
Currently Under Restoration by Museum specialist for Alfred Smith paintings....
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage french art - The Animated Towpath In Normandy - oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions: Very good overall Conditions, oil on canvas framed. Signed lower left.
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Jean Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dubord Jean. Landscape In A Flower Garden In Autumn - oil on canvas - signed.
Located in PARIS, FR
Excellent condition. Never restored. Dimensions with frame 68 x 78 cm
Jean Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949, and after spending years in the French countryside, he returned t...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
LePoittevin Eugene - Italianate Landscape with a woman - oil on canvas - signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Very good overall conditions, original canvas with no minor retouching, except on the dress 12mm ( as seen on picture under UV light). The signature is dated 1852 or 53....
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow effect on the bank of Seine - Paris Bercy - O/C - signed lower left
By Raymond Besse
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare scene of the industrial period in Paris
By Remond Besse- "Paris, et la periode industrielle". Excellent overall Conditions, original canvas with no restoration to be identified...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eugène Lepoittevin. A drawing lesson by the Sea - oil on canvas - signed 1853
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions with minor retouching under UV light (as seen on pictures). Slight invisible crack in the canvas. Original Victorian frame in excellent conditio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French art. "The Last Radoub" On A Normandy Beach, oil on canvas, signe
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Immaculate, no prior retouching under UV, original canvas. No restoration needed. Antique Frame with an overall dimension of 59 cm x 76 cm. Signed lower right.
Émile R...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Sailboats At Anchor, View Of Holland, oil on canvas, signed lower right
Located in PARIS, FR
Edmond Marie Petitjean was a French painter and illustrator born on July 5, 1844, in Neufchâteau (Vosges) and died on August 7, 1925, in Paris.
Biography
A painter of landscapes and...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Landscape With A Boat On A Lake - oil on canvas -by Trouillebert Paul
By Paul Desire Trouillebert
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions, minor chips on the left side to original period frame. Oil on canvas signed Trouillebert on the lower right.
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Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cliffs Of Treport - Normandy Etretat, oil on wood by Léon Richet
By Leon Richet
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall with a genuine oil on board with original period frame.
Minor 3 mm retouching under UV light. (As seen on picture)
A student of Narcisse Diaz de la P...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boat in Harbor - At a Normandy harbor - Galien laloue - oil on canvas -
By Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Oil on canvas. Highly detailed composition in a 19th century original frame. This painting will be included in Volume II of the catalog of the w...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Napoleon III-Review by Edouard Detaille - Tempera - signed lower right
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in PARIS, FR
This artwork might be one of two versions, the other one being in the Museum in les Invalides Paris.
Note. This version has a more accomplished academic style.
Dimensions with original gold frame 107 x 87 cm
Conditions Excellent overall, supported by an original frame withan antique glass.
EDOUARD DETAILLE
The emperor is accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Colonel Castelnau, and Marshal Canrobert. In a gilded wooden frame, under a Marie Louise blue background.
Life and time
Born in 1848 into a close-knit bourgeois family, Édouard Detaille, the eldest of eight children, displayed early talent in drawing. “He was a prodigy,” notes François Robichon. By the age of thirteen, he exhibited an astonishing surety of hand and a phenomenal sense of composition. His father, connected to Horace Vernet, encouraged him. At seventeen, after passing his baccalaureate, he entered Meissonier’s studio. This relationship, which developed into mutual affection, spared Detaille the academic detour through the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than dictating an official art style, Meissonier, at the peak of his fame, traveled with his students, introducing them to the nuances of Titian, Rembrandt, and Rubens in Brussels and Lille.
In 1867, the Paris of “free trade” dominated the world through the technological revolutions of the Universal Exhibition, and the amiable young man, striking in appearance, discovered the salon of Princess Mathilde and the theater of Dumas fils. He even approached the Empress, noting in his journals, “Not bad, the Empress.” This observation encapsulated Detaille: he had no doubts about his talent, cultivated panache, enjoyed the company of beautiful women, and aimed to conquer the circles of power without sacrificing his freedom.
From childhood, he listened to his calling: “Before I could read, I could guess the subjects of battles, the names of famous generals, the weapons of officers and soldiers from the images I admired in the books of Norvins and Laurent de l'Ardèche.” He mingled with collectors and regularly attended military reviews on the Champs-Élysées. His first painting exhibited at the Salon in 1868, “La Halte de tambours,” was praised by critics who immediately recognized “a remarkable truth of observation and simplicity of effect.” The purchase of this work by Princess Mathilde, cousin of Emperor Louis-Napoleon, made Detaille, at twenty, an envied celebrity known to Sainte-Beuve, Théophile Gautier, the Goncourt brothers, and Flaubert. The young artist’s humanistic vision contrasted with the compositions of his predecessors, depicting soldiers in maneuvers, contemplative and resigned as war loomed.
**The Combatant’s Vision**
The Siege of Paris, where he nearly lost his life in 1870, and the deaths of two brothers in that defeat darkened his outlook. From 1871 onward, Detaille no longer concealed the cruelties of war: German riflemen mowed down by machine gun fire, cavalrymen and panicked horses caught in ambushes, fields plowed by shells strewn with dead animals. The unvarnished tragedy: “It is an absolute fact that no painter has ever rendered a battlefield covered with corpses as it is,” commented Jules Claretie. The fallen bodies still bear the appearance of life in their frozen rigidity. Detaille’s testimony of the devastating defeat and the catastrophic effects of the first total war in history was not a celebration of heroism but a lament, a “lesson in darkness.” “From war, once considered the supreme effort of human genius, we now see only melancholy and horrors,” judged one writer in response to his canvases.
“Detaille experienced the reality of combat at a young age during a war that foreshadowed the two world conflicts of the 20th century,” explains François Robichon. With great realism, Detaille painted war from the perspective of the combatant. He introduced a humanity and a critical lucidity regarding the evolution of warfare. His works intensely captured the violence and firepower of new weapons like machine guns. Before he turned thirty, Detaille had become a chronicler of these painful years. He exhibited, as a critic noted, a “striking portrait of modern war” that both French civilians and soldiers had experienced firsthand. He embodied a youth humiliated and eager for revenge. Yet this scrupulous artist also remembered, in his expansive landscapes—from the chalky plateaus of Île-de-France to the Russian plains—the lessons of Corot and Courbet. Manet was not far off. “I wouldn’t want my art to be reduced to mere patriotic art,” he asserted. “A system I often employ and love is to first execute the landscape, very effective, very tight, based on nature…” Echoing Meissonier’s advice: “Always nature, always nature!” Detaille remained close to this father figure, constructing a grand townhouse next to his mentor’s studio at 129 boulevard Malesherbes at the age of 26, having purchased 425 m² of land from the Pereire brothers. He even chose the same architect as Meissonier: Paul Boesvilwald. A bachelor and incorrigible seducer, the painter welcomed his conquests, including Valtesse de la Bigne, amidst his collections, having built his studio in the courtyard.
Diplomatic Actor
As Detaille’s fame grew, his Malesherbes townhouse quickly became a gathering place for foreign princes, politicians, and heads of state, where Juliette Adam, Léon Gambetta’s muse, offered him valuable advice. The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, developed a genuine friendship with the painter. “This fervent patriot, friend of Déroulède, was extraordinarily open to the world,” recounts François Robichon. In just a few years, he gained considerable social, cultural, and international stature. Received at Windsor, at the English court, he was close to Tsar Alexander III and a great friend of Félix Faure.
In this capacity, Detaille played a decisive role in the Entente Cordiale, signed in 1904 between England and France, and in the Franco-Russian alliance of 1894, thereby contributing to the Triple Entente among the three powers. An engaged witness of his time—associated with the birth of the “Ligue des Patriotes” alongside Alphonse de Neuville...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Animated Landscape With House By The River, oil on wood, signed lower left
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Conditions. No restoration necessary. Dimensions with frame 44 cm x 36 cm.
Born in Paris, the French painter Paul Lecomte, Paul Emile Lecomte's uncle,...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orientalist cavalry scene Decamps Gabriel - oil on canvas - initials DC
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Excellent overall Condition.
Great Master of Orientalism:
Decamps revealed Orientalism at the 1831 Salon, establishing himself as an essential reference. The 1831 Salon...
Category
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil