Leighton Fine Art Ltd Figurative Paintings

Signed impressionist riverscape oil on panel dated 1863 by sought after French painter Paul Camille Guigou. The piece depicts a view of the river i...

A beautiful oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet. The piece depicts a view of a man fishing in a stream by t...

A beautiful oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Pierre de Belay. The work depicts families relaxing on the beach at Villerville under a clear bl...

Signed figures in a landscape oil on canvas circa 1870 by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The work depicts a woman carrying a basket with a young child beside her walking along a snowy path in a Fontainebleau Forest. This early work by Vignon was painted whilst he was under the tutelage of Camille Corot in the period between 1869 and 1870 . The work shows a mother and child in the forest at Fontainebleau in winter. Many painters in Vignon's circle such as Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Bazille visited this area to paint in the late 1860's and the early 1870's. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 23"x25.5" Unframed: 13.5"x16" Provenance: Galerie Commeter - Hamburg c. 1920 French exhibition customs stamps verso His mother has been incorrectly identified as the writer Claude Vignon...

A wonderful oil on panel by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli depicting two old men seated in an interior. One is reading his paper as the other naps and there are several kittens on the floor. Painted in the artist's distinctive style. The work is accompanied by a certificate from Brame & Lorenceau and is included in the catalogue raisonne of the painter. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 9.5"x8" Unframed: 5.5"x4" Provenance: Private collection - United States Original artists label verso Jean-François Raffaëlli's father was a failed Italian businessman and Raffaëlli himself was, among other things, a church chorister, actor and theatre singer. He then studied under Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He travelled to Italy, Spain and Algeria and on his return to France settled in Asnières. In 1876, on a trip to Brittany, he first saw the potential of realist subject matter, if treated seriously. He became involved in meetings of artists at the Café Guerbois, where the Impressionist painters used to gather. As a result, Degas, contrary to the advice of the group, introduced Raffaëlli to the Impressionist exhibitions - according to one uncertain source as early as the very first exhibition, at the home of Nadar, and certainly to those of 1880 and 1881. In 1904, Raffaëlli founded the Society for Original Colour Engraving. He first exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1870 and continued to exhibit there until he joined the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, where he earned a commendation in 1885, was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1889 and in the same year was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle. In 1906 he was made Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He was also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1884, a private exhibition of his work cemented his reputation. He contributed to several newspapers such as The Black Cat (Le Chat Noir) in 1885 and The French Mail (Le Courrier Français) in 1886 and 1887. He published a collection entitled Parisian Characters, which captured his favourite themes of the street, the neighbourhood and local people going about their lives. In 1880 he participated, with Forain, on the illustration of Joris Karl Huysmans' Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens). He also illustrated Huysman's Works. As well as working as an illustrator, he also made etchings and coloured dry-points. His early attempts at painting were genre scenes, but once he was settled in Asnières he started to paint picturesque views of Parisian suburbs. From 1879 onwards, his subject matter drew on the lives of local people. These popular themes, which he treated with humanity and a social conscience, brought him to the attention of the social realist writers of the time such as Émile Zola. In addition to his realist style, Raffaëlli's dark palette, which ran contrary to the Impressionist aesthethic, helped to explain the opposition of those painters to his participation in their exhibitions. More concerned with drawing than colour, he used black and white for most of his paintings. Towards the end of his life, he lightened his palette, but without adopting any other principles of the Impressionist technique. After painting several portraits, including Edmond de Goncourt and Georges Clémenceau, he returned to genre painting, particularly scenes of bourgeois life. Later in his career, he painted mainly Breton-inspired sailors and views of Venice. His views of the Paris slums and the fortifications, sites which have almost completely disappeared, went some way towards establishing a genre in themselves and perpetuated the memory of the area: The Slums, Rag-and-Bone Man, Vagabond, Sandpit, In St-Denis, Area of Fortifications. His realistic and witty portrayal of typical Parisian townscapes accounts for his enduring appeal. Born in Paris, he was of Tuscan descent through his paternal grandparents. He showed an interest in music and theatre before becoming a painter in 1870. One of his landscape paintings was accepted for exhibition at the Salon in that same year. In October 1871 he began three months of study under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he had no other formal training. Raffaëlli produced primarily costume pictures until 1876, when he began to depict the people of his time—particularly peasants, workers, and ragpickers seen in the suburbs of Paris—in a realistic style. His new work was championed by influential critics such as J.-K. Huysmans, as well as by Edgar Degas. The ragpicker became for Raffaëlli a symbol of the alienation of the individual in modern society. Art historian Barbara S. Fields has written of Raffaëlli's interest in the positivist philosophy of Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, which led him to articulate a theory of realism that he christened caractérisme. He hoped to set himself apart from those unthinking, so-called realist artists whose art provided the viewer with only a literal depiction of nature. His careful observation of man in his milieu paralleled the anti-aesthetic, anti-romantic approach of the literary Naturalists, such as Zola and Huysmans. Degas invited Raffaëlli to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1880 and 1881, an action that bitterly divided the group; not only was Raffaëlli not an Impressionist, but he threatened to dominate the 1880 exhibition with his outsized display of 37 works. Monet, resentful of Degas's insistence on expanding the Impressionist exhibitions by including several realists, chose not to exhibit, complaining, "The little chapel has become a commonplace school which opens its doors to the first dauber to come along."An example of Raffaëlli's work from this period is Les buveurs d'absinthe (1881, in the California Palace of Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco). Originally titled Les déclassés, the painting was widely praised at the 1881 exhibit. After winning the Légion d'honneur in 1889, Raffaëlli shifted his attention from the suburbs of Paris to city itself, and the street scenes that resulted were well received by the public and the critics. He made a number of sculptures, but these are known today only through photographs.[2] His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In the later years of his life, he concentrated on color printmaking. Raffaëlli died in Paris on February 11, 1924 Museum and Gallery Holdings: Béziers: Peasants Going to Town Bordeaux: Bohemians at a Café Boston: Notre-Dame; Return from the Market Brussels: Chevet of Notre-Dame; pastel Bucharest (Muz. National de Arta al României): Market at Antibes; Pied-à-terre Copenhagen: Fishermen on the Beach Douai: Return from the Market; Blacksmiths Liège: Absinthe Drinker...

Stunning signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. A wonderful and colourful depiction of a green church garden la...

Beautiful signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a lone figure trudging through the thick whi...

Stunning signed oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a cottage amongst bare trees with snow...

Signed figure in landscape oil on board circa 1910 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. This charming piece depicts a young girl in a pink dress and ha...

A wonderful pointillist oil on canvas by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The piece depicts people visiting a bustling fair - Salon des arts ménagers (Hous...

A wonderful oil on canvas circa 1908 by French post impressionist painter Henri Liénard de Saint-Délis depicting a boat docked at the harbour in the harb...

A beautiful oil on panel by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres depicting a view of lone gondolier rowing his gondola with a backdrop of the city of Venice in ...

Signed and dated figures in seascape oil on panel by Belgian impressionist painter Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens. The work depicts an elega...

A beautiful watercolour and chalk on paper circa 1860 by French Barbizon painter Henri Joseph Harpignies. The piece depicts figures beside the river Seine in Paris with a view of the Île de la Cité and the Notre Dame Cathedral behind on what looks to be a cool autumn day with the leaves of the trees beginning to turn brown. Signed lower right. Dimensions: Framed: 20"x23.5" Unframed: 10"x13.5" Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co. New York Christie's - New York Saint-Privé is a French commune located in the department of Yonne in region Bourgogne-Franche-Comt Born in Valenciennes, Henri Harpignies...

An exceptional oil on canvas circa 1910 by French Impressionist painter Pierre Eugène Montezin depicting figures and a horse & cart on a bridge over the river. Beautifully painted an...

Signed expressionist oil on canvas portrait circa 1942 by French painter Jean Albert Pougny. The work depicts a violinist in an interior. Signatur...

A large oil on canvas by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting men on a blander - a small flat bottomed craft - on a canal on a frosty morning. Signed lower left. This p...

A beautiful oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting two men sailing on a barge along the canal on a cool autumn's day. Signed lower left and dated 1907 ver...

A lovely oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem, depicting a family outside cottages in a village on a summer's day. Signed lower left and dated 1913 verso. This pa...

A lovely oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem, depicting two women on a path beside an old farm building in a summer landscape. Signed lower left and dated 1907 v...

Watercolour on paper circa 1925 by Henri Duhem depicting a woman in a yellow summer dress playing tennis on a bright sunny day. Signed and titled l...

Oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting an autumnal landscape. Two figures are by the canal beneath almost bare trees while a barge sails by, and the sun s...

Oil on panel by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a man in a small boat on the river, with trees and reeds on the bank in the foreground. Signed lower left and dated...

Oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a figure leading his horse and cart along a tree lined path at evening. Signed lower left and dated 1909 verso. Thi...

A wonderful oil on canvas by Louis Hayet depicting figures in a cityscape at evening time. Signed and dated 1932 lower left. Louis Hayet had a difficult and itinerant childhood, due to the instability of his father, an amateur artist. He began to draw and produce watercolours from the age of 12. By the age of 20 he produced works with great skill, as demonstrated by his pen drawing Boulevard, Evening, Paris. He made a living in Paris doing various jobs more or less to do with painting. He associated with Camille and Lucien Pissaro...

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting men working on barges moored on the canal side while woman walk by as the light of the setting sun reflects of the buildings and into the water....

Signed oil on board landscape circa 1920 by Russian impressionist painter Georges Lapchin. The work depicts moored boats at a port in Martigues in the South of France. It is a bright...

Watercolour on paper circa 1908 by Henri Duhem depicting a couple on a path by the river at sunset, with the crescent moon visible in the sky. Signed lower left. This painting is not...

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting an elegant woman walking by trees in a landscape with the colours of the setting sun reflecting from the mountains beyond. Signed lower right an...

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a lone figure walking across a landscape as the setting sun reflects on the lake beyond as the mountain darken on the horizon. Signed lower righ...

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a night time scene in a village. Signed lower right and dated 1895 verso. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sour...

A lovely oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting barges on the canal in Douai - the colouring beautifully represents the cold of winter. Signed lower left and dated 1903 verso. This pa...

A wonderful oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a lone man on a barge sailing down the canal in Douai, one of Henri Duhem's favourite subjects. Signed lower left and dated 1908 ver...

Watercolour on paper circa 1925 by Henri Duhem depicting a father and child playing in the snow outside a cottage on a winter's evening. Signed lower left. This painting is not curre...

Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a lone woman figure walking through a village under the light of the moon. Signed lower left and dated 1904 verso. This painting is not currentl...

Oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem depicting a lone man by an outhouse in a field. Signed lower right and dated 1904 verso. This painting is not currently framed but a suitab...

Oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem depicting soldiers resting outside in the shade as the sun sets. Signed lower right and dated 1909 verso. This painting is not currently fr...

Oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem depicting boats on the canal at sunset and figures walking on the path alongside. Signed lower right and dated February 1907 verso. This pa...

Watercolour on paper circa 1920 by Henri Duhem depicting Les Gilles - men dressed in traditional costume at the Carnival of Binche, Belgium. Signed and titled lower left. This painti...

Watercolour on paper circa 1920 by Henri Duhem depicting The Gilles at the Carnival of Binche, Belgium. Signed and titled lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a suit...

Oil on paper laid on canvas. Signed & dated 1899 lower right. This work is included in Tome II of the Catalogue Raisonne by Denise Bazetoux- Ref: 159 This work is a plein air stud...

A wonderful painting by French artist Henri Duhem depicting a boat on the river with a figure and horse & rider on the banks and trees beyond. Oil on panel. Signed lower right and da...

Oil on canvas circa 1910. Signed lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sourced in if required. Descendant of an old Flemish family, Henri Duh...

Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Maximilien Luce was a French Neo-Impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, and engravings. As a painter, Luce was initially inf...

Signed lower right. Henri Duhem was descended from an old Flemish family and originally practiced as a lawyer. In 1887, his passion for drawing and watercolors finally led him to go...

A captivating oil on canvas by popular and notable French artist Maximilien Luce depicting a beautifully painted landscape. Signed lower left. Maximilien Luce was a French Neo-Impre...