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Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Nouveau
Style: Edo
French Impressionist Portrait of a Smiling Lady in Hat
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Impressionist portrait painting of a lady with a black hat and a happy smiling face from around 1890-1920. This Liberty style lady portrait in oil, is most likely painted by a French...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Hounds and Pheasant, Constant Freiher Byon, 1910
Located in Albignasego, IT
Hounds and Pheasant – Constant Freiher Byon (1882 – ?)
47 cm x 57 cm (dimensions referring to the painting only)
58cm x 68cm – including frame
Oil on canvas – early 1900s
Thr...
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1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique French Miniature Painting
Located in Victoria, BC
This exquisite antique French School miniature painting on porcelain is a true gem of artistry and craftsmanship. Created by a skilled artist of the French School, this delicate work...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Wood, Paint
Maitland and Smith Wall Panels
Located in Nashville, TN
Vintage, beautifully hand painted Maitland Smith floral wall panels with peacocks near the bottom. Signed on the back Maitland Smith being 84” tal...
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21st Century and Contemporary North American Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Wood
Antique Paintings Landscapes with River, Oil on Canvas Painting, Early Twentieth Century.
Located in Breganze, VI
The category Antique Paintings, French Landscape, features an Oil Painting on Canvas from the Early Twentieth Century period,
depicting a glimpse of a river with characters. Early 20th century era.
These are landscape paintings depicting a bend in a river using warm, bright colors.
The work is signed Luc Belin, a French landscape painter who loved to paint outdoors and especially southern France.
Joseph Louis Lucien...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of brown Lacquer on Wood Panels Art Nouveau Floral Japanese Style .
Located in Miami, FL
Two Lacquer panels on wood Japanese inspiration soft colors , floral theme.
Style Art Nouveau// Art Deco.
French origine.
Could fit perfectly above a pair of Art Deco or art Nouveau ...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Wood
Antica coppia di dipinti a olio "Paesaggio"firmati , Germania, Jugendstil, 1901
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Questa splendida coppia di dipinti a olio "Paesaggio" si basa formalmente su un naturalismo che insegue una verosomiglianza nella rappresentazione della realta',anche attraverso un pittoricismo che abbozza la forma con una pittura veloce,carica di vibrazioni luminose e cromatiche.A livello compositivo le due tele sono in linea con un elegante gusto Jugendstil,con una composizione che predilige forme esili e sfrutta le forme vegetali per comporre prezioso intreccio decorativo.L'autrice di questa coppia di paesaggi presenta una notevole tecnica di formazione accademica,che si esplica in un'alta ricerca di resa naturalistica.L'artista mostra anche di essere un rappresentante dell'ambito Art Nouveau di inizio XX secolo ,in una composizione dal disegno complesso e che riporta anche qualche ispirazione di gusto esotico,soprattutto dall'arte giapponese...
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Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Signed Franz von Stuck Chromolithograph of Six Maidens Dancing in a Meadow
Located in Nova Scotia, NS
What a unique and beautiful Valentine's Day gift for that special someone!
This ethereal watercolor print by Franz von Stuck consists of six maidens d...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Natural Fiber, Organic Material, Wood, Hardwood, Paint, Paper
"Still Life of Flowers and Art" by Jehan Berjonneau
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Provenance: Sold Sothebys London May 1989 for $7,000, Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans, Private Collection USA.
Jehan Berjonneau...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint
Style of Jean Alexandre Rémy Couder (French, 1808-1879) Courtyard Gathering
Located in Atlanta, GA
Style of Jean Alexandre Rémy Couder (French, 1808-1879). A mid to late 19th century French school painting of a courtyard. Depicting a group...
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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas, Giltwood
Antique hanging scroll of Japanese cat/Late Edo-Meiji period/Cat painting
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a picture of a cat drawn by a person named "Toshizumi Nitta" from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period.
She is a very simple and cute cat.
He is a vassal of the Tokugawa Shogunate, born in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture (southern part of Gunma Prefecture).
He was related to the Tokugawa family and lived in a large mansion in the Ota clan in Gunma prefecture.
However, the Nitta family's territory was very small, and they were by no means a wealthy vassal.
He seems to have lived quite poorly.
So he painted cats and sold them to people.
The Nitta family continued to draw pictures of this cat for four generations.
"Nitta toshizumi" is equivalent to the fourth generation.
During the Edo period, sericulture was thriving in the Kanto region.
Cats were said to be the gods of silkworms, as they drive away mice, the natural enemies of silkworms.
It was the Nitta family who drew such a cat on paper, pasted it in the silkworm chamber, and sold it as a mouse repellent.
There were also other monks who painted pictures of cats, but the Nitta family in particular was related to the Tokugawa family, so people believed that paintings of cats had special powers. , a lot of paintings...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
“Resting Ballerina” Oil on Canvas in manner of Edgar Degas Paris 1900s
Located in Doha, QA
This beautiful painting is a fantastic example of Art Nouveau style in the Impressionism era of Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It comes with an original gold gilded Art Nouve...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique French pastel painting "portrait of little girl with dog" 1925 signed
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Antique French pastel painting from 1925 depicting "maiden with dog",the author shows great skill in capturing the maiden's expression of happiness as well as demonstrating an absolu...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique French pastel painting "Mother with Child" from the early 1900s
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Old French pastel painting "Mother with Child "from the early 1900s,the author demonstrates great skill in conveying the feeling of complacency of the maternal figure,not to mention ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique German oil painting "Portrait of a Maiden" from 1901 signed Konig
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Antique German oil painting "Portrait of a Maiden" dated 1901 signed Konig,the author demonstrates good mastery in the use of colors and technique,the forest in the background,the wr...
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Set of 6 Large Kakemonos Japanese Mythology, 19th Century Japan circa 1800 Edo
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful set of 6 large kakemonos from 19th century Japanese mythology.
Paper support with a canvas pasted on the paper
Wonderful set that is part of Japan's history and beliefs
When not hung, the Kakemonos are rolled up.
circa 1800 - Japan - Edo Period
A kakemono translates as "object to hang". In Japan this refers to a painting or calligraphy, most often done on silk or paper framed in a scroll that was intended to be hung on walls or in public lighting. This particular form, which allows them to be in a roll, dates back to the Tang dynasty in China (this would be related to the copying and preservation of ancient Buddhist texts). A Kami is a deity or spirit worshipped in the Shinto religion. A Yokai is a spirit, ghost, demon, or strange apparition from the creatures of Japanese folklore.
Each of these kakemonos represents a unique story:
- A kami, a Japanese deity, is shown painting a rainbow. Indeed, he performs the action with his right hand while his left hand holds a kind of basket with three pots of paint. This kami has a rather closed attitude. He is standing in a dark and tormented sky. Below this figure, 8 villagers are dressed in traditional Japanese clothes. Their faces are softened. They are not afraid of the elements made by the kami above their heads.
- A character with an unreal look is holding a kind of jar with his two hands, which he spills on human figures above. This being is floating in the air, probably a character from mythology, perhaps Susanoo. Underneath, villagers on umbrellas. They are trying to protect themselves as best they can from what is falling on them. One of them is carrying baskets with fish on her shoulders. A character in the background is thrown forward and falls.
- On this kakemono, the god Raijin, dressed in a white and blue outfit, strikes the sky with his two drum hammers to create lightning and its thunderous sound. Surrounded by Tomoe and a long red scarf, Raijin, enraged and with dishevelled hair, creates a dark and violent storm. The villagers seem frightened by this meteorological phenomenon. One of the villagers can be seen fainting in the arms of a man. This scene may seem chaotic, but Japanese legend tells us that once a field is struck by lightning, the harvest is good.
- On this kakemono, we see an unreal-looking figure holding a fan, as if he were sweeping away the bad weather, or simply producing gusts of wind. He is probably the kami of wind and air, Shina tsu-hiko. The figures below him seem surprised by so much wind. An umbrella flies away on the left, the women hold their hair and scarf, the clothes are caught in the power of the wind, there is even a woman on the ground on the bottom left.
- This Kakemono represents a short moment. This Raiju is a yokai (ghost spirit...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Art Nouveau Gemstone Painting of Spring Goddess
Located in Somis, CA
A rare artwork of the Spring Goddess in the art nouveau style with various gemstones. The painting was done on the back of glass and applied with quartz to create the iridescent background. The Goddess finely painted, delicately inlaid with natural gemstones. She wears a long mermaid...
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20th Century Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Mid-18th Century Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Flowers, Chrysanthemums
Located in Kyoto, JP
Omori Soun (b. 1704)
Chrysanthemums - One Hundred Flowers
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dating ...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Portrait of À Woman Painting Oil on Panel 19th Century Signed Rolland Framed
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Magnificent portrait of an elegant woman. Graceful face, fine features. Beautiful representation of a young woman. Signed lower right H. Rolland. Oil on wood panel. Paint.
Early 20t...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint
circa 19th Century French Painting of a Flower Filled Urn on Velvet
Located in London, GB
A charming French painting on velvet, circa 1890 of a classical urn full of flowers.
The deep frame is decorated and the flowers are in vibrant blues and muted colours.
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Wood
Large Painting by Henri Joseph Thomas "At the Theater"
By Henri Thomas
Located in BORDEAUX, FR
Large canvas representing a couple in their dressing room at the theatre. Very beautiful and elegant genre scene by Henri Joseph Thomas.
Henri Jo...
Category
1920s Belgian Art Nouveau Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Japanese Edo Six Panel Kano School Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Japanese Silk Suijaku Scroll Nyorai-Kojin with Mixed Buddhism and Shinto Deities
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese silk Suijaku hanging scroll beautifully presented in a custom wood shadow box frame from Edo period (circa 18-19th century). The scroll, surmounted on golden brocade was painted in fine details with gouache, ink and gold powder highlight, served as a Suijaku mandala for the worshippers. Honji Suijaku is a complicated religious concept uniquely developed in Japan. It mixed and hybrid the Buddism deities with native shinto spirits (known as Kami), which were seen as local manifestations (the suijaku, literally means a "trace") of Buddhist deities (the honji literally the original ground). The original idea may lie with the synergetic strategy to spread Buddism by making it more relatable to the local population who had already worshiped Shinto gods. The paradigm, adopted in the 10th century from an orignal Chinese concept, remained a defining feature of Japanese religious life up to the end of the Edo period (1868). Instead of being confined to deities, its application was often extended to historical figures as shown on this scroll.
This long hanging scroll depicts an arrangement of 21 figures including Buddhism and Shinto deities as well as two historical figures on the bottom. Each figure was name-tagged in Kanji for easy identification by the worshippers. It was used in the temple or shrine so that when the worshipper prayed in front the mandala, they prayed simultaneously to all the deities.
On the very top, sits Nyorai-Kojin, a hybrid deity of Nyorai Buddha and Kojin, the kaki for fire, stove and kitchen. From the top to bottom and left to right, here is the list of the deities: Kanon with Thousand Hands, Kanon with Willow Branch, Monju Bosatsu...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood
Period Portrait of a Young Noblewoman by Vincenzo Volpe
By Vincenzo Volpe
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful portrait of a young noblewoman signed by the great Italian artist Vincenzo Volpe in lavish costume communicates her social status.
Oil on board
The very elegant posture of...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Wood
Large Flowers Painting by Lina Bill
Located in TOULOUSE, FR
Large flower arrangement (dahlias
oil on canvas
sign lower right L. Bill.
Elegant frame in gilded stucco (some restorations to be planned).
Lina Bill pse...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Sainte Thérèse of Lisieux Lithograph by Edgar Maxence, 1927
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Superb lithograph under frame on the theme of Christianity depicting a nun in Carmelite dress, haloed, holding in her hands a crucified Christ and a bouquet of white and golden roses. A rosary is also visible on the left.
The portrait is framed by two columns and an arch. We read the inscriptions: "Je veux passer mon ciel à faire du bien sur la Terre" ("I want to spend my heaven doing good on Earth") and "Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus" ("Saint Thérèse...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Nasturtium, " Watercolor by Louis Comfort Tiffany for Stained Glass Window, '21
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully painted in vivid tones of yellow-orange, mossy green, warm red and deep blue -- echoing the rich tones of the stained glass he employed -- this rare and gorgeous watercolor by Louis Comfort Tiffany was clearly painted to inspire and guide the design of one of his stained glass windows featuring the nasturtium flower. In the earliest years of his career in the decorative arts, Tiffany served as the primary designer for his firm, inspired by ancient Byzantine and Roman glass as well as the bounty of American flowers and trees to be found in his native Northeast. As his business grew and it was necessary for him to oversee the work of many artists and artisans, he came to rely on others to develop most designs, such as Frederick Wilson for his figural church windows and Clara Driscoll...
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1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mark Antony's Funeral Oration over the Corpse of Caesar, Robert Seuffert
Located in PARIS, FR
Mark Antony's Funeral Oration over the Corpse of Caesar.". Oil on canvas signed Robert Seuffert, dated 1906 lower left.
Caius Julius Caesar was assassinated on the 15th of March 44 B.C., day of the ides of March...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)
Plum Tree and Birds
Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
In this evocative ink work spread over a six-panel folding screen, we see the consummation of the elegance and refinement of the Edo Kano school. This 17th century screen is a rare surviving example of a large-scale bird and flower painting by Kano Naonobu, the younger brother of Kano Tanyu...
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique Landscape Painting, Les Gorges De La Dordogne, Didier Pouget, XX Century
Located in Breganze, VI
Antique Painting, Landscape painting, scenery painting which represents the "Les Gorges de la Dordogne" in Neuvic, France.
Landscape art work, XIX Century. Place where many painters were inspired including Claude Monet.
Paintings with landscapes that represent nature. The ancient painting and the frame are restored.
The work is signed Didier Pouget, a French landscape painter, who loved to paint outdoors and especially southern France.
William Didier Pouget (1864-1959) was born in Toulouse and began his career as an artist in 1886 when he participated in the "Salon de Paris".
He studies at the "Des Beaux-Arts" school in Toulouse and then at the "Académie de Paris", considered close to the Impressionist painters.
He becomes a member of the "Société Des Artistes Français", knows and associates with
many important artists including Jean Baptiste Corot.
His river landscapes are rich in poetry and the painter usually prefers to capture the light of sunset or sunrise,
I paint the figure of the tree in a dark and decisive color in contrast with the clear light of the sky.
In fact, on the back the painter writes what he paints, namely the light of 'Les Gorges de la Dordogne'.
Since 1903 Didier-Pouget exhibits in the United States where he is very much appreciated.
Many works by this important artist are exhibited in the many museums.
The oil painting dresses...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Nico Jungmann Art Nouveau Style Painting of Dutch Boats circa Early 20th Century
Located in Peabody, MA
An early 20th century oil of Dutch pink boats and canal houses by the well listed Anglo-Dutch artist Nico Jungmann (1872-1935) This painting bears mannerisms of the Nieuwe Kunst styl...
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Early 20th Century Dutch Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint
Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Yoshitsune and Benkei
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century Japanese late Edo period six-panel byobu screen depicting Yoshitsune and Benkei, two heroes of Japanese folklore. Crafted in ink and natural color pigments on mulberry paper with thick gold leaf borders on each panel. The character Yoshitsune is seated under a blossoming cherry tree in full armor holding a fan. The warrior priest or monk Benkei is depicted kneeling on a leopard skin...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Mid-17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Painting, Oil on Canvas by Delphin Enjolras, 1900
By Delphin Enjolras
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Painting, Oil on Canvas by Delphin Enjolras, 1900
Beautiful painting by Delphin Enjolras, early 20th century, circa 1900, Art Nouveau.
Dimensions:
Frame: H: 95cm, W: 75cm, D: ...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Art Nouveau Lithographs with Airplanes Gamy, Marguerite Montaut, 1909
By Gamy
Located in Antwerp, BE
Pair of Art Nouveau lithographs with airplanes, boats and spectators by Marguerite Montaut.
France, 1883-1936.
Signed Gamy, Mabileau & Co. Paris.
Stone lithographs with gouache h...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
"Femme Nue" by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Pencil and gouache work on paper of a nude female by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro.
Provenance: Private collection The Netherlands, purchased from Stern Art-Dealers London, 1996.
Ludovi...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Emile Baes Period Young Girl Portrait
By Emile Baes
Located in Roma, IT
Very nice pastel on paper featuring a young girl noblewoman.
This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive XVIII Cent...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Flower Painting, Iris and Daisies, Antique Painting, Oil on Canvas, Still Life
Located in Breganze, VI
Flowers artwork, oil painting, floral painting which represents Iris And Daisies.
It also has a gold leaf frame realised in the 1800s.
The oil on canvas painting dates back to th...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Early 19th Century Japanese Screen. Cherry Blossom & Pheasants by Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Pheasants and Cherry Blossoms
Two-fold Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun, gold and silver on paper.
A two-fold Japanese bir...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Landscape Painting, Mountain Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, XX
Located in Breganze, VI
This is an antique landscape oil painting, mountain landscape painting with snow, early XXth century.
It is an antique painting, from t...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cranes
Anonymous, Kano School.
Edo period, second half of the 17th century.
Pair of six-panel screens. Ink, pigment gofun and gold l...
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1670s Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Miniature Four-Panel Screen Blue and Green Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century mid-Edo period Japanese four-panel miniature screen. Depicting a beautifully painted Chinese blue and green landscape in the Nanga School...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Brass
Pair of Italian Street Scene Paintings on Board Signed Luca Andrea Guizzardi
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a study with this elegant pair of vintage paintings. Created in Italy circa 1990, and hand painted on board, both color...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Giltwood
Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, 19th Century Bamboo in Moonlight
Located in Kyoto, JP
Bamboo in moonlight
Gamo Rakan (1784-1866)
Hanging scroll, ink on silk.
Dimensions:
Scroll: 201 cm x 58 cm
Image: 137 cm x 45 cm
In this early 19th century work by Gamo Rakan a light ink wash applied to the silk background silhouettes the moon and suggests the atmosphere of early evening. Even though it is a literati subject, Rakan’s bamboo is quite realistic with a strong decorative style. The painting finds its inspiration from Chinese Ming dynasty painters who often used a single-tone, jet black stroke to emphasize the calligraphic nature of bamboo.
In a different era, decorative would have been seen as somewhat unrefined. But increasingly in the Edo period, it was the hallmark of high style. The Japanese people, in particular the rising merchant class, had gradually become apathetic toward the traditional Sesshu and Kano schools of painting. Chinese professional and amateur painters living in the port of Nagasaki during the 18th century had a profound effect on Japanese painting and the freshness of their style and its decorative appeal contributed greatly to its popularity. Gamo Rakan’s teacher, Tani Buncho...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Silk
Portrait Painting, Child Playing, Art Déco, Oil painting, Early 20th Century.
Located in Breganze, VI
This is a Child Playing Portrait painting. This oil painting has an original frame realised in the 1900s.
Early 20th Century. Art Nouveau-Art Déco.
The old painting and the gilt f...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Wood
Unpei Kameyama, 'a View of Black 'American' Ships in the Bay of Uraga Senminato'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Unpei Kameyama (1821-1899)
A view of black (American) ships in the bay of Uraga Senminato, Miura district, June 1853
The Japanese text reads: ‘The seventy-six old men for the Kitamura-clan, drawn in 1897 on request of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji, the black ships which so much changed the fate of Japan, enjoy please this masterpiece by Harima Shonin Bisei who brings back memories of his young days.’
Watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard, H. 44.5 x W. 115.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji
Yoshisada Kitamura (1838-1899), the son of a farmer in the village of Ogawa, in the district of Harimakashikihigashi, studied under Matajiro Otaka and got heavily involved in the anti-Shogunate movement. He was active in several military incidents against the Shogunate. After the Meiji restoration, he served the Meiji government as a local official in the Himeji domain.
Kameyama Unpei was a Confucian scholar, a Shinto priest...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Screen for Tea-Ceremony, Ink Bamboo and Plum on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
Three Friends of Winter
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871)
Late Edo period, circa 1850
Ink and gold leaf on paper.
This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions.
The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year.
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
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Gold Leaf
Japanese Six-Panel Screen Byobu With Chrysanthemums And Autumn Grass and Flower
Located in Torino, IT
The 19th Century Six-Panel Japanese folding screen "Byōbu" usually used in the most important Japanese house to stop wind and also to separate different space of the same big room de...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
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Gold Leaf
Japanese Painting, 17th Century, Tale of Genji, Tosa School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Illustration to an unidentified chapter of the Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)
Tosa School (second half of the 17th Century)
Ink, pigment, gofun and...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
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Gold Leaf
Painting of an Alpine Landscape
Located in Badia Polesine, RO
Oil on canvas.
Author: De Benedetti Renzo.
Period: Early 1900s.
Provenance: Italy.
Condition: Very good state of preservation.
Measurements: 198 x 152 cm.
Description: Splendid oil on canvas of considerable size, depicting an alpine landscape...
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Canvas
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Located in Breganze, VI
This is a antique portrait artwork, antique portraits proposes a young girl seen from behind looking at the Sunset
is an oil painting on canvas from the late 19th or early 20th cent...
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Canvas
Japanese Six-Panel Screen Waterfall and Cherry in Audubon Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen: waterfall and cherry in Audubon landscape, Edo period painting, 18th century, depicting summer and spring. A Kano Schoo...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
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Gold Leaf
"The Seated Woman" by Albert Andre
By Albert Andre
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right.
Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight.
Provenance: Sothebys
Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works.
He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
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Paint
Japanese Antique Ink Painting / 19th Century / Rare Chinese Character Painting
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We have a unique Japanese aesthetic sense.
And only we can introduce unique items through our purchasing channels in Japan and the experience we have gained so far, in such a way that no one else can imitate.
It is an ink painting written after the Meiji era.
The biggest attraction of this work is that it uses Chinese characters to create paintings.
To explain in detail, it is written here in Chinese characters as "un-ryu" .
"Un" is a cloud and "ryu" is a dragon.
These are embodied and drawn by comparing them to the meaning of Chinese characters.
And the clouds depict the clouds hanging over the mountain, and the dragon depicts the climbing toward the mountain.
Humorous paintings...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
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Acrylic, Paper
Impressionist Painting of a Seated Nude Joseph Louis Lamberton France 1906
By Joseph Louis Lamberton
Located in Antwerp, BE
Impressionist painting of a seated nude by Joseph Louis Lamberton 1867-1943. Oil on board.
Original gilt wood frame.
France 1906.
Size framed:
H. 82 cm x L. 67 cm x D. 4.5 cm...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
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Paint
19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Phoenix & Paulownia
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & Flowers of the seasons
Pheasants & Plum in Snow
Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888
Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Paintings
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Silk
Early 20th Century Hungarian Framed Oil on Canvas Painting by Vilmos Nagy
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a lady's office or study with this elegant antique oil on canvas painting. Created in Hungary circa 1920 and set in a carved giltwood frame, the artwork, titled "Portrait of a girl in a hat...
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Early 20th Century Hungarian Art Nouveau Paintings
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Canvas, Giltwood
"The Ballerina" by Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Pastel on canvas, signed lower right, measuring 38" x 48.25" including the frame.
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carri...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
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Paint
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Later, the people of Ancient Greece — who learned about art from the Egyptians before them — conceived panel paintings of wax and tempera that were collected and publicly displayed. In the centuries that followed, artists would be commissioned to create large-scale wall murals and frescoed ceilings in sprawling European palaces and in the homes of the aristocracy.
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