19th Century Oil Painting Still Life by François Joseph Huygens

An antique still life oil painting with fruit, pear, apple, grapes and peeled mandarin. In the background a wine bottle. The painting is signe...

An oil painting of two rustic dogs fighting over a piece of food. It is painted on an oak panel. Signed top left. The signature is a bit faded, it's a monogram J.S. by Joseph Stevens. He often signed with a monogram. In a gilded frame frame with gesso moldings. Dimensions frame: 41 x 47 cm Dimensions painting: 17 x 23 cm. Joseph Stevens is the older brother of the very well-known artist Alfred Stevens. In the book 'The Belgian Art Book' by J. de Geest, it is written that Joseph Stevens has given a new dimension to painting animals. Joseph Stevens is an early representative of realism and social art. While Eugene Verboeckhoven has royal dogs pose on a beautifully embroidered cushion, Joseph Stevens already has an eye for the dark side of animal existence: exploitation by man, who in turn is a victim of society. His first successful painting, Brussels in the morning, shows how miserable dogs and poor people suffer the same fate. In the Sandman, Stevens shows a joint effort of man and dog, in which the viewer cannot ignore the social conditions: exhausting labor at dawn in some suburb. The gray sky and monochromy of the suburb add to the sinister atmosphere. Joseph Stevens was one of the first artists to take the urban proletariat as his subject. Stevens enjoys a very high reputation in his Parisian years. His brother Alfred writes: 'I am of this time, but you, Joseph, you are of the race, and thus you are of all times.' French critics agree. Stevens' works are a source of inspiration for the literature of the time. For example, Beaudelaire writes a poem about Stevens' dogs. Joseph Edouard STEVENS. Belgium, 1819-1892 Stevens was a painter, etcher and engraver. Brother of the gifted painter Afred Stevens. Education at the Academy in Brussels (1834-1835). Debuted at the Salon in Brussels in 1842. Continued his career in Paris in 1852. He was primarily the painter of canvases depicting domestic animals (dogs, monkeys, horses), sometimes in curious, even idiosyncratic situations, and far from romanticism. This realism, of which he was one of the pioneers, earned him the interest of critics and intellectuals. His approach was defined by this contemporary realism that eschewed idealized depictions of animals as heroic emblems of nobility. Rather, Stevens emphasized the ordinary animals of everyday life, with a particular focus on working dogs, stray dogs and all of the mutts that wandered the streets of Brussels. Museums and public collections, including' Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts. Stuttgart, State Gallery. King Leopold...

An antique painting of a flower still life with roses. Painted with oil paint on canvas. Gilded wooden frame. Jules Félix Ragot. Belgium, 1835-1912. Ragot was a Belgian Painter, w...

Beautiful antique painting, a fruit still life against a dark blue background. The painting is painted on canvas, the canvas is pasted on wo...

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A beautiful flower still life painting. Most likely the Thalictrum Nimbus plant, in a copper vase. Signed bottom right Julien Stappers. Painted with...

A remarkable German oil on canvas still life painting by Joseph Wilms. The painting depicts a wonderfully executed still life scene of grapes, plums, an apple, and a piece of vine surrounding a glass while all set on an elegant white table cloth. The painting is framed within an elegant giltwood frame with lightly fluted mottled designs and richly carved wrap around berried laurel and beaded bands. Joseph Wilms (1814-1892) also known as Peter Joseph Wilms was a German painter born in Bilk. He was a student at the Académie de Düsseldorf in the workshop of Wintergerst of Th. Hildebrand & W. von Schadow...

An antique American or British oil on canvas still life painting. Signed L. Allinson lower right. Framed. Circa the late 19th century. Antique Still Life Paintings For Collectors. ...

19th century French still life oil on canvas, signed lower right, L. Benoist. Vineyard harvest theme with grape vines and baskets of pea...

Pair of 19th century gilt framed still life oil paintings of tablescapes of fruit.  

American 19th century still life painting of a compote of fruit on a table arranged with more fruit in a custom 20th century painted frame.

A striking Continental 19th century still life painting. The charming painting depicts a central urn with eternal flame and personages seated t...