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A rustic chapel, natural earth tones, devotional objects and saint figures
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956).
Berges was born in th...
Category
1930s Pointillist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young woman painting, the artist, 19th Century anonymous master oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Painted with inspiration, sensitivity and with grace, this painting depicts a young woman whose right arm is slightly stretched out. Although we cannot see her hand, she must clearly...
Category
1870s French School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The blue bow: a little boy with tousled hair naturalistic portrait oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This sweet little boy sits quietly like a well brought up child, but you can see in his eyes how much he likes to run and play. In this sensitive portrait painted in circa 1860 by Fé...
Category
1860s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
On Stage: Art Deco Diva in Red, Paris Theatre, geometric modernist decor
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a great exhibition on in Paris at the Petit Palais at the moment, entitled "Modern Paris/Le Paris de la Modernité 1905-1925" . Here is a painting that would fit into the exh...
Category
1920s Art Deco Interior Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil
Medieval enthroned Virgin and Child Sedes Sapientiae acephalic granit sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
They may be damaged and battered, but real historic objects will always give you a sense of awe. Can you sense it, looking at this ancient carved granite which depicts, as it is call...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Medieval Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Young Beauty American Maurice Sterne rare early 1904 signed original etching
By Maurice Sterne
Located in Norwich, GB
An extremely rare and lovely hand signed etching by American Maurice Sterne, dating from the turn of the century when the artist was working in Paris.
Maurice Sterne, born in 1877 ...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Fishing by Moonlight manner of Corot: Mooonlit lake French Barbizon oil painting
By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Located in Norwich, GB
Nobody quite does moonlight quite like Camille Corot. Moonlit landscapes suited the artist's discreet artist's personality and painting. As Baudelaire astutely observed: "M. Corot is...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Light on the water large colorful Impressionist landscape with Monet-like irises
Located in Norwich, GB
It is probably those irises in the foreground that always make me think of Monet's garden when I look at this landscape! Just like he Master's late work, it is so impressionist that ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Fair Skipper: boating on a mountain lake ca 1830 the Swiss Alps painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty...
Category
1830s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carriage ride in the countryside on a summer's day c 1880 Impressionist painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A sunny but temperate summer's day in the countryside: it's the perfect time and place to go for a stroll or a ride. This fresh and idyllic composition makes us, the viewers, feel li...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Carom Billards large and bold abstracted mid century modern games oil
By Guy Bourdin
Located in Norwich, GB
If Carom Billards is your game, this is the ultimate painting for you. If it is not, you will simply marvel at the artist's playfulness, adventurousness and style. Large and bold, the artwork includes a Margritte-esque surrealist figure with a bowler hat, grattage - note the intricate herringbone structure of the background - and sculptural fissure of the red ball to represent the end grain.
The result is breathtaking. If you want a focal point for a room, this one is for you.
Guy Bourdin, the ground breaking fashion and advertising photographer, specialised in fascinating narratives, dramatic effects with intense color saturation, hyper-realism and cropped compositions. He often incorporated fantastical elements, vivid colors, and bold compositions into his images, creating a captivating, dreamlike atmosphere
Bourdin's style was influenced by his background in surrealism and painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
By Charles Green Shaw
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons.
I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood
Gathering wild red poppies: woman in a poppy field French Impressionist painting
By Stephen Jacob
Located in Norwich, GB
One of my customers told me about a picture he bought from me that he "felt as if he had always known it... a painting that feels like returning home". For me, this present oil by St...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Peonies floral still life Dyf like provenance art deco period ocean liner
Located in Norwich, GB
This charming and exuberant posy of peonies immediately made me think of similar works by Marcel Dyf - but it is actually a work by the ultimate master of art deco...
Category
1930s Art Deco Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The first time model: the enigmatic young bohemian girl in traditional dress
Located in Norwich, GB
I love the feisty attitude of the girl depicted! With her hand on her hip, she seems to be saying to the artist: "Whatya looking at anyway?" She looks like she has a good head on he...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After the storm, the blue canoe: Impressionist plein air river scene
Located in Norwich, GB
I liked the title "After the storm" for this painting, which the artist had noted on the back of the painting, although he later changed it to "Day of the storm". It's the juxtaposi...
Category
1870s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Avant garde cubist landscape painting House by the Sea Bloomsbury Group fauve
By Jean Hippolyte Marchand
Located in Norwich, GB
It is fascinating how a painting with so many round shapes can appear so cubist. To my mind, it's because the artist is much more interested in the forms and volumes he sees than in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaiss...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Woman in thought and Child: the page boy intriguing 19th Century Master drawing
By Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Norwich, GB
A virtuoso charcoal sketch by the Frech 19th Century master Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1904). It depicts a thoughtful woman (or woman in thought?) with her face resting on her hand...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Southern City by the sea atmospheric large blue green seascape harbour painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A very atmospheric and idyllic view of a Southern fishing port, painted most likely in Italy or France. Resolutely post-impressionist, the landscape is imbued with the light of the M...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
Best of Europe:The Roman Girl Sensitive Portrait of a Young Woman Italy
Located in Norwich, GB
Born into difficult times, the life of German Jewish artist Hermann Hirsch was not filled with peace or abundance. However, I believe at least while he w...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Best of Europe light flooded Palace Interior in grey blue green colorful accents
Located in Norwich, GB
The best of Europe. If you love the classically stylish opulence of French palaces and their marble fireplaces, their elegant panelling, their Versailles parquets - if you have wondered around Versailles or Fontainebleau palace, wondering what it might be like to live there - then this one is for you!
Our painting brings a light flooded, serene palace interior to you: a large room with a sculpture on the mantlepiece, and three large paintings...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbizon Village scene ladies chatting on the street 19th century rural painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Antoine Williams Zarra (1820-1892) was an international man of mystery. When not painting in the rural village of Barbizon and its environs, he was moonlighting as a costume and set ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Purple Abstract Mountain:Latin American Modernist Salvadoran sculptural painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful work by the elusive Salvadoran Mauricio Aguilar which is sculptural as well as pictorial. As I hope the video will show, the artwork offers new perpectives when viewed fr...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Board
Jewel coloured vibrant op art abstract geometric painting French 1960s
Located in Norwich, GB
A fabulous example of 1960s geometric/op art, displaying all the fun, playfulness and vibrancy of the style. Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images and vibrating patterns. Its roots can be traced back to Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism and Dada.
The maker of this stunning piece is Tony Gonnet (1909-2004) an artist close to those who shaped modern art and its history. Working in Casablanca in 1940 he met André Breton and Saint-Exupéry, who were both on their way to America. Unable to obtain a visa for himself, Gonnet returned to Paris in January of 1942. Living on Rue de Seine, he became one of the figures of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and numbered amongst his many friends Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Genet – who prefaced his first Parisian exhibition in 1952 – as well as Albert Camus, Simone Signoret, Boris Vian, Jacques and Pierre Prévert and many others.
In 1941, in the ennui of Casablanca, Tony Gonnet had started to draw, and then paint, in a Surrealist style. In 1946 he abandoned figurative surrealism in favour of abstraction, making sole use from then on of geometric forms and shaded tones, in his own unique style. His works aim to achieve harmony of shapes and colours, and thus to bring joy. Tony Gonnet loved life, and said that each of his works was an offering made to it.
With solo shows in major Paris galleries...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Academic master drawing: Allegorical Scene artist in Musée d'Orsay
Located in Norwich, GB
A fascinating allegorical scene by French master Paul-Louis Delance (1848–1924), an artist known for the allegorical and history paintings. His grandfather was the Count Joseph van R...
Category
1870s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Silver birches, Provence: luminous landscape painting 19C French painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful work by Provençal master Joseph Collas, a native of Aix en Provence in the South of France. Born in 1841, Collas studied with Emile Loubon - who was also known for his pa...
Category
1870s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field flowers: exuberant floral still life in a rustic landscape country scene
Located in Norwich, GB
I have the privilege of being able to live for a little while with the paintings I offer and to "test" them. I can confirm that this particular works feels like acquiring a new windo...
Category
1870s Academic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spring Flowers post impressionist floral still life oil by woman artist painting
By Marie Lucie Nessi
Located in Norwich, GB
An exuberant impressionist floral still life by Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat (1910-1992).
Marie Lucie studied with André Lhote, at the Ecole des Beaux art and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from the age of 18. She was part of the circle of Montparnasse artists Léonard Foujita, Jean Hélion, Moïse Kisling.
In 1932 Marie Lucie Nessi married Jean Valtat, the son of Post Impressionist master Louis Valtat, whose work influenced on his daughter-in-law's art.
After acclaimed one man shows in renowned European galleries galleries such as the Parisian Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat signed a contract of exclusivity with Wally Findlay Galleries...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lilac flowers at the door, 1901 uplifting floral still life large oil on canvas
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it.
It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene?
At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home?
The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910.
The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas.
Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Seine at Sunrise, pink clouds: Impressionist blue and green River Landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
A fresh and atmospheric painting depicting the vast River Seine seen from the cliffs near its estuary in coastal Normandy. It is incredibly modern for its time: if the definition of ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light on the water, luminous river landscape with two lone figures painting
By Charles Lapostolet
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a lot to see in this delicate, luminous landscape: a little fisherman, a figure in his canoe, and the beautiful light on the water. It is an ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Floral Still Life Country Flowers in a Vase by Flemish Barbizon artist in France
Located in Norwich, GB
A gorgeous floral still life which marries the depth and the richness found in the work of the Flemish old masters with the elegance and light of French painting. As you will see, th...
Category
1880s Flemish School Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Summer Siesta 1959 New Wave period large drawing relaxed young woman daydreaming
By Dany Lartigue
Located in Norwich, GB
All the sun and the joie de vivre of the mediterranean in one large drawing! Dated 1959, the work evokes Brigitte Bardot, the French Riviera and French New Wave Cinema.
The artist is Dany Lartigue, son of photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, Dany was brought up between Paris and Saint Tropez, which was still a fisherman’s village at the time. Although as an artist Dany worked from Montmartre studio, the Cote d’Azur of his childhood remained his spiritual home, and he returned there often. In Saint Tropez, by then fashionable, he would meet his friends Juliette Greco...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Charcoal
Collectors Cabinet Lake Lucerne 19th Century Miniature Swiss Alps mountain
Located in Norwich, GB
In German, there is a word called "Sommefrische" , meaning summer freshness, which captures this painting perfectly. Looking at this Swiss mountain and lake scene is like a perfect, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mountain and lake a fresh Swiss summer holiday, boats on Lake Lucerne miniature
Located in Norwich, GB
In German, there is a word called "Sommefrische" , meaning summer freshness, which describes this painting perfectly. Looking at this Swiss mountain and lake is like a perfect, restf...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Colonial West African Baule Baoule Figure Sculpture Woman wearing loincloth
Located in Norwich, GB
An elegant African sculpture from the West African Baoulé or Baule people, depicting a young woman wearing a loincloth. Smooth black lightly worn patina.
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
The young Bostonian 1858 portrait of a notable gentleman Boston Massachusetts
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful portrait of a Bostonian dated 1858, by Leopold Grozelier, the artist best known for creating the first electoral poster ever, bearing the portrait of Abraham Lincoln (186...
Category
1850s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph, Paper
Little Mule and white rabbit: 1890s novecento animal equestrian horse painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A gorgeous novecento animalier painting, depicting a curious colt and.a white rabbit, by Gaetano Jerace (1860-1940)
Gaetano Jerace was born in Polistena in Calabrian into a dynasty of artists: his brothers Francesco (1894-1937) and Vincenzo (1862-1947) also became painters.
Gaetano moved to Naples as a young man, where a attended the Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Francesco Lojacono...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
1960s American Pop Art hyperrealist drawing Lucky Strike
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking pop art drawing, dating from the 1960s, featuring lettering and a packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Pop art as art movement emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 196...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
River Cottage 1849/ Barbizon landscape heralding Impressionism Jongkind's friend
By Henri Sieurac
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of a river landscape with a rustic cottage and pollarded trees by Henri Sieurac. It isa rare, early and very fresh landscape by this Parisian artist which may well have been painted in the countryside around Barbizon, near the river Loing.
Henry Sieurac had studied with his father, François Joseph Sieurac , and of Paul Delaroche...
Category
1840s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summer landscape by Whistler's French artist friend Delâtre, Barbizon connection
Located in Norwich, GB
An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre.
Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Wicket basket with Anemones a humble festive gift 19th century floral still life
Located in Norwich, GB
A charming 19th Century painting of Anemone flowers in a wicker basket. It has a warm, seasonal and festive feel. I love the great simplicity and sincerity it exudes. French in origi...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbizon Fontainebleau region Impressionist French summer landscape with figure
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of the heartbreakingly beautiful Fontainebleau/Barbizon region, which was home to some of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th Century. The particular spot presented here is the river Loing at Montigny-sur-Loing, where Cezanne and Sisley loved to paint. The village is just a short walk away from Grez-sur-Loing, where John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century English Portrait of Admiral Horatio Nelson's great grandfather
Located in Norwich, GB
A fascinating portrait dating from circa 1695-1700 with wonderful provenance: it belonged to the British industrialist Leonard Pelham Lee (1903–1980) and hung in his manor house in W...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist abstracted Head
By Erik Scholz
Located in Norwich, GB
Erik Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the prestigious Munkácsy Award in 1950, and received stipends to work and study...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
Friendship, comfort: hand modelled sculpture by Polish Jewish French artist
Located in Norwich, GB
An extraordinary depiction of friendship and comfort by Polish Jewish sculptor Michal Michael Milberger.
Milberger was born in Warsaw in 1922. His artis...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Boy in a landscape, large art deco period painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This luminous landscape is perfectly capturing the light of early spring. A boy is climbing over wooden farm gates, with a backdrop of rolling hills. The painting has a gloriously fr...
Category
1930s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist abstracted Head
By Erik Scholz
Located in Norwich, GB
Erik Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the prestigious Munkácsy Award in 1950, and received stipends to work and study...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Young man in a toga elegant man Latin American hyperrealist Hockney style
By Claudio Bravo
Located in Norwich, GB
Superb original drawing in coloured conté pencils, heightened with white on oatmeal coloured vergé paper by Claudio Bravo. The work was created during the artist's Moroccan period, a...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper, Color Pencil
French Barbizon rural landscape: young girls chatting by the village gates
Located in Norwich, GB
Godefroy de Hagemann (1820-1877) was a member of the Hanover dynasty, of German Princes. His full name was Godefroy Auguste Christian Volfgann baron de Hagemann, or Godefroy de Hagem...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an aristocrat with a precious box, ca 1770, Louis XV enlightenment
Located in Norwich, GB
What is so wonderful and unusual about this 18th Century portrait is the relatability of the sitter. There is an openness to the world in his gaze, curiosity, a sense of humour, pass...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Americana 1848 pokerwork pyrography panel Prophet or Gospel writer Pennsylvania
Located in Norwich, GB
a wonderful antique pokerwork/pyrography panel by I W Wells, an American artist who flourished between 1845 - 1880. He was active in Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, yet most of his work is conserved in the Pinto Collection, which is part of the Birmingham Museums Trust in the UK. A portrait of Tennyson by Wells is in the Virginia State...
Category
1840s Outsider Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood Panel, Etching
American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943.
Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mythological scene, study for the Prize of Rome 1864, French academism, Homer
Located in Norwich, GB
This rare mythological scene depicting the Greek author Homer on the island of Scyros. You will notice the Trojan War being fought in the background. Our painting, dating from 1864, is unsigned, but has a solid attribution to academic artist Henri-Léopold Lévy...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Redingote by student od Jean Louis David drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
An exceptional ink, wash and graphite portrait of a gentleman by Henri-Joseph Hesse, dating from circa 1820, the time of the Bourbon restoration in France. It depicts a dashing figur...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
American Impressionist: Springtime, a sunny path in France 19thC oil painting
By William Baptiste Baird
Located in Norwich, GB
This beautiful and light filled painting testifies of a new dawn: in the 1880s the landscape and animalier artist William Baird turns to Impressionism. Our Sunny Path, with looser brushwork and lighter colours, convey the fleeting nature of the present. Our lovely oil on canvas may well be homage to Claude Monet - according to Baird's inscription on the stretcher, it was painted in Mantes, which is only about 6 miles from Vétheuil, where Monet was living and working in the 1880s!
William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847, but as an adult moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. In Paris, Baird studied under Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Hypochondriac: French 19th Century Theatre Comedy drawing
By Paul Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier)
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent and sensitively treated line drawing in coloured ink, heightened with white. It depicts Argan, the hypochondriac from Molière's play of the same name. Dating from circa...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Ink
