Antique French Oil Painting by Georges Maroniez

This large pastoral oil painting (nearly 51 inches long) portraying a woman walking among animals, has been signed and dated in the lower ...

The subject of this painting is a rustic French village beneath a cloudy, yet bright sky. This charming scene features brick houses lining a dusty rural...

During the late 19th century, the French system of government, known as the Third Republic, began to distance itself from the Latin church. As a result, artists at French academies of art began to produce works known as “cardinal paintings”, which were satirical renderings of church dignitaries dressed in vibrant red robes, enjoying their privileged lifestyles. This particular oil on board painting by Emile Meyer...

This antique oil on canvas pastoral cow painting is signed and dated (1889) by the artist, “J. Bergmann ‘89”. Because Bergmann used an vertically oriente...

A beautiful oil on canvas rendering of a stag hunt, presented in a fluted giltwood frame with a bundled husk border and large, parted leaves in the corners. The painting is signed in the lower right corner by the artist, “H. de Forges”, a member of the Barbizon French school of the late 1800s, who specialized in animal hunt scenes. The vibrancy of de Forges’ painting has not diminished over time; the colors seem to pop right off the canvas. A blue sky with some low-lying white clouds hangs above trees mainly bereft of leaves, indicating it is late autumn. Slender grass, ranging from green to brown, surrounds a watering hole in the middle of a clearing, with a single stag near the water’s edge. Eight white hunting dogs with black and tan markings surround the deer on one side of the pond. Behind the pack is a brown horse ridden by a huntsman dressed in red and black, preparing to sound the hunting horn. Two more riders in red, black, and white, also on brown horses, are emerging from a small hill behind the deer. Hunting, always a very important pastime in France, became one of the more popular genres in 19th century art, along with with quality pastoral and landscape paintings. Realism was a defining feature of the Barbizon School, as artists were attracted to spending more time living and painting in the natural world. Our hunt scene depicts the surrounding of prey, or pre-hunt revelry. The beautifully colored oil on canvas stag hunt painting...

Attributed to the renowned French Romantic painter, Eugène Isabey, this seaside painting (dated 1864) effectively uses dark and evocative tones of brown, gray, and beige to depict a ...

Oil on board with two men playing chess in an 18th century interior while a third smokes a clay pipe, in the original frame, signed.          

A beautiful pair of antique Victorian gilt framed oil paintings. These are signed by the well known artist George Jennings, they date from around the l...

Antique English oil on canvas painting "The Marketplace" by George E. Butler (1872-1936).    

Impressionist American seascape, oil painting by George Renouard. Inscribed on reverse "1st Chapter-Genesis by Renouard". Oil on canvas. Signed lower...

Impressionist American seascape, oil painting by George Renouard. Inscribed on reverse "1st Chapter-Genesis by Renouard". Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Original frame. Measures: 20" x 24" without frame. George Renouard, was born in Rochester, New York and lived much of his life in Brooklyn and Manhattan, was a graphic artist, painter and art educator. His paintings frequently portray scenes and subjects from Cape Anne, Long Island and Brooklyn. Renouard exhibited throughout his career including the annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. blue Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1920, 1942 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1938 Art Institute of Chicago, 1936 15 Gallery, New York City, 1940 (solo) Schools: Art Students League, New York, teacher. # Blue ocean shore emile gruppe beach gloucester antique cape...

Antique American Oil on Canvas landscape Painting by George Riecke (1848-1930).