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Period: Late 19th Century
Fine Empire Style Gilt Bronze Mahogany Center Table inthe Manner of Jacob-Desmal
By Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Sheffield, MA
A fine Empire style gilt bronze mahogany gueridon or centre table
With a verde antico marble top.
In the manner of Jacob-Desmalter,
circa 1880
Height 31 1/4 Diameter 35 in.
A very fine Empire style gilt bronze-mounted mahogany guéridon after a model by Jacob-Desmalter, the circular verde antico marble top above a mahogany frieze mounted with laurel leaf banding in between rosettes and anthemions, supported of the heads of three finely cast gilt bronze female caryatids, each facing outward with hair in plaits, bare feet and arms crossed, wearing arm bands and a low cut diaphanous dress gathered up toward her breast, the stretcher centred by a chased covered urn flanked by three elegant crouching winged sphinxes wearing Nemes headdresses and plaits tied at the front.
The design for this superb guéridon is based on a famous table-console or ‘console double face’ by the celebrated firm of Paris ébénistes Jacob-Desmalter which was itself based on designs by Napoleon’s chief architects and ornamentalistes Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine...
Category
Antique 1880s French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
An Important 19th Century Neoclassic Gilt Bronze & Crystal Chandelier
Located in Sheffield, MA
An Important 19th Century Neoclassic
Gilt Bronze & Crystal Chandelier
Russian
19th Century
Eight light chandelier with gilt bronze swans
Height 48 in. Diameter 36 in.
P...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century European Neoclassical Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Frost
America, 1843–1907
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Oil on Canvas
20 by 30 in. W/frame 28 by 38 in.
Signed lower l...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
Edward Francis Rook
American, 1870-1960
Brittany
Oil on Canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in.
Signed lower left
Circa, 1898-1900
Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April. In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased. Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes. Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory. Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone. For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico.
Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903. The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month. Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism. Rook would move there permanently two years later.
He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed. More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies. By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician. Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high. His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries.
Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community. As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer. As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced." Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).
Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf. Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America." Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists. Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.
Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene. One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society. Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background. But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette. Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
By Marie Joseph Léon Clavel
Located in Sheffield, MA
“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel
French, 1850-1923
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
Oil on canvas, Signed
13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in.
Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Travers Bois
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Richard Goubie
French, 1842-1899
A Travers Bois
Oil on canvas
25 ½ by 39 ¾ in. W/frame 30 ½ by 45 in.
Circa 1892
Jean Richard Goubie was bo...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Cherries
By Eugene Henri Cauchois
Located in Sheffield, MA
Eugene Henri Cauchois
French, 1850-1911
Still Life with Cherries
Oil on canvas
Signed “H. Cauchois” lower right
22 ½ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 30 ...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Biskra Algeria
By Arthur George Collins
Located in Sheffield, MA
Arthur George Collins
American, b.1866
Biskra Algeria
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated Biskra, 1893
26 ½ by 32 ½ in. W/frame 32 ½ by 38 ½ in.
Arthur studied at the Julien Academy, P...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Countryside
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Charlay-Pompon
French, 1854-1914
French Countryside
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
11 by 21 in. w/frame 16 ½ by 26 ½ in.
Charles Charl...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lake Of Nemi, Near Rome
By George Loring Brown
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Loring Brown
American, 1814-1889
Lake Of Nemi, Near Rome
Oil on canvas
28 by 48 in. W/frame 36 by 56 in.
Circa 1876/7
signed & dated lower left , inscribed verso:
"Lake of ...
Category
1870s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Coastal View
By George Loring Brown
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Loring Brown
American, 1814-1889
A Coastal View
Signed and dated 1878
Oil on canvas
22 by 36 in W/frame 30 by 44 in.
Often referred to as “Claude...
Category
1870s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
St. Tropez
By Jean-Baptiste Duffaud
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Baptiste Duffaud
French, 1853-1927
St. Tropez
Oil on canvas
13 by 21 ¾ in. W/frame 24 by 32 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Jean-Baptiste Duffaud studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles under the direction of Dominique Antoine Magaud (1817-1899). Wishing to complete his artistic training, he went to Paris and received the teaching of Jean-Léon Gérôme. He exhibited at the Salon from 1875 to 1892, obtaining several honorable mentions. He was awarded the prestigious Marie Bashkirtseff...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vue De Venise
By Henri Duvieux
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Duvieux
French, 1855 – 1920
Vue De Venise
Oil on canvas
15 ¾ in. by 25 ½ in. W/frame 25 ¾ by 35 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Henri Duvieux was an artist influenced by the intere...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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