"C'est L'Empereur !" Antique Oil on Canvas after Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook

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...

Painted by the French painter, Edouard-Henri Muller, (1898-1973), this oil on canvas painting depicts a section of a garden at the Palace of Versailles. Specifically, the heavily woo...

A very accurate depiction of a hillside in Les Baux-de-Provence, France, this oil on canvas painting by Jules Felix Brien is surrounded by a gold leaf papier-mâché frame adorned with...

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 fascinating oil on canvas painting depicting a group of monks in a wood carving studio, this oil on canvas was painted by Giovanni Torriglia in the late 1800s. The darkened tones used by Torriglia (black and brown) are offset by a gilt frame with foliate details above a deep cavetto molding. Five monks are gathered around a workbench inside a workshop covered in shadows. One of the young monks, who is wearing glasses, is manipulating a sheer green fabric across the only light source: a shuttered window behind our quintet. Two senior clergymen sit behind the workbench on slatted Savonarola chairs. They gaze with delight at a junior monk hammering a chisel into wood, sculpting a winged angel. A final youthful monk leans on a wonderfully carved sgabello chair, watching the apprentice closely. The colors are splendid, accentuated by tiny nuances such as the wood chips on the floor, various completed sculptures behind the monks, and a green-leafed tree visible outside the window. Giovanni Battista Torriglia...

Signed and dated “A. DeBacq 1849” (Charles-Alexandre DeBacq), this charming oil on canvas painting portrays a French noble couple enjoying a snack in the courtyard after an afternoon horseback ride. Surrounded by a highly-carved giltwood frame adorned with foliage and a textured lozenge background, the small, colorful painting features a woman in a gold and silver gown, seated at a table covered with white linen with a pink stripe and a wicker basket of fruit. DeBacq had exemplary technique, finely detailing the woman’s gown...

Monumental antique 1890 oil painting on canvas of Robert Heath (1816-1893) by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook (1855-1937). Painted a few years before Heath's death featuring a full le...

Antique Framed oil painting on canvas by De Kok showcases the artist's firm grasp on creating the tranquility of an intriguing landscape composition using color and contrast resultin...

A beautiful oil on canvas by Scottish 19th century artist Hugh Cameron, RSA RSW, ROI (1835-1918), in an exquisite gilt frame. This painting is a particularly moving and wistful examp...

Antique oil on canvas Painted by English Royal Academy artist Henry Woods (1814-1921). Scene of Neapolitan peasant women.        

"Oil Painting on Panel, signed " Linda Le Kinff " , Danseuse de l'Est" Painting with the title "Danseuse de l'Est", Beautiful Oil on panel, well framed, by Linda Le Kinff, 20th ce...

Pierre Petit, "son secret est un mystère", oil on canvas, signed. "Her secret is a mystery" Titled in the back.