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Vintage French Watercolor - Crystal Falls

Circa 1920

Delightful one-of-a-kind watercolor and gouache painting of boats docked along the glassy waters of Fareham creek located in England, circa 1910. Titled lower right. Original artwo...

This gouache painting by artist Ulrich Franke, circa 1950, offers a feast of varicolored landscapes and textures for the eyes. Brightly hued fields in the foreground lead to a waterf...

Colorful gouache of a boat dock by 20th Century artist Armando Sanchez from charming Mérida, Mexico. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a g...

Masterful watercolor of a cathedral's spire seen through ancient streets, c.1960. Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve ...

Mid-century French gouache and watercolor of peaceful and serene scene of North African Casbah, circa 1950. Signature and title lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a...

Bright African market scene from Madagascar in bold reds and earth tones in watercolor by artist French resident artist to the colonial governor Stéphan...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...

Dutch School, 17th Century. In the manner of Herman van Swanevelt (1603-1655). Title: An Italianate Landscape. This work closely relates to a group called the Italianate painters. Th...

Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885) ‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’ With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855 Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...

FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...

This is a large diptych on paper, 68 x 101 inches, created in 2020. What is unique to this one is the wider horizontal width. I think of my large diptychs as simultaneously a figure...