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Huge Antique French Rococo Oil Painting Mythological Lovers in Landscape

c.1890

French School, circa 1950's indistinctly signed French landscape near Pontoise (northern France) oil on canvas, framed framed: 21 x 30 inches canvas: 15 x 24 inches provenance: priv...

The Harvest Workers English School, 19th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 16.5 inches provenance: from a collection in England condition: very good and sound condition

The painting (with a Salvador Rosa-style gilded frame 88 x 116 cm) depicts a group of four children who are playing outside on a swinging seesaw; we are probably dealing with a prank, as can be seen by the satisfied expression of the child on the right at the expense of the one in the foreground, who seems to be supported by the others, perhaps because of the fear felt. They are dressed in the same way, with black or brown ankle boots and a kind of double-breasted jumpsuit with a rich lace collar reminiscent of the jabots of dames, blue for the one in the foreground, brick-colored for the other three. Children also look alike in the hair, typical of the period, and features, suggesting a kinship relationship. We find the same subject, for example, in Johann Zoffany...

"Loch Long" by John Brandon Smith (British, 1848-1884), is a 19th-century British Romantic oil on canvas landscape painting. Signed "J.B. Smith on the lower right and is in a giltwoo...