French Framed Oil Painting Depicting the Harbor of Trouville, Signed Barthélémy

A French framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the 19th century depicting fruits, signed Morin. Created in France during the 19th century, this oil on canvas painting features mouth-watering cherries and prunes displayed in wicker baskets and flanked with a copper strainer...

A French framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the mid-19th century, depicting a colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase, set in a carved giltwood frame. Born in France at the ...

A French oil on canvas painting from the early 20th century depicting a pointer dog in the woods, in giltwood frame. Created in France during the Turn of the Century which saw the tr...

A French 19th century framed oil on panel painting depicting a scene of village life by the sea, under a cloudy sky. Exuding a tranquil ambiance with undertones of bustling daily lif...

A French framed oil on canvas floral painting from the 19th century, depicting roses. Born in France during the 19th century, this exquisite oil on canvas painting features a delicat...

A French framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the late 19th century depicting fruits. Created in France circa 1875, this oil on canvas painting depicts a humble arrangement ...

Found on the East Coast in the United States, this large original oil painting on stretched canvas depicting boats in a harbor. Unsigned and new floating frame in pale wood. Unknown ...

Late 19th-century Belgian oil painting of an industrial Antwerp port mounted in a thin wooden frame. A moody vista of three docked ships at sunset with an industrial cityscape just b...

A Pair of Antique Oil/Canvas Paintings Depicting Horse and Mare, signed on each painting, bottom left hand side. Both with identical frames. light scruff to one painting near the fra...

We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to ensure the authenticity of our objects. Painting oil painting on canvas is made with mixed technique brush and spatula; the author used traditional brushes for a first draft giving shape to the whole drawing with an expert, loose wrist play and with sure and decisive brushstrokes; the representation, in this case, is not a pure exercise of virtuosity, in fact, the author communicates us his intimate essence manifesting it through the language of colors, shapes, and composition. The artist finished his work with the technique of spatula painting, named after the protagonist's instrument, redistributing the colors densely and consistently, making the painting take on a special body and depth. The painting is signed but we are unable to give definite information about the author, however, we confirm its extraordinary aesthetic and engaging vividness; the painting was made in 1989 in the author's studio in Paris whose intentions were to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789). The painter was inspired by both French Expressionism and Symbolism; Expressionism exalts the emotional value of art; it is the artist's desire to communicate inner feelings, while with Symbolism, painters tend to go beyond the objective representation of reality to focus instead on the subjective vision, in which inner feelings, emotions, and experiences are evoked above all. Our painting is overflowing with the symbolism of the French Revolution; it is practically an evocative essence of it. This important and overwhelming historical event is powerfully present in the soul of the artist who wanted to overbearingly communicate to us his deepest emotions by transposing them entirely in the painting with strong and vivid colors, he did not want to simply allude or hint but to express, indeed "shout" his own deep interiority. In his intentions, the painting schematically and symbolically represents a standard-bearer of the French Revolution wearing the classic "Phrygian" hat. The author used only the three colors white, red, and blue that characterized the flags of the French Revolution; they were the new banners, which opposed the traditional emblem of the monarchy, the lilies on a white field. Three were the colors because three were the goals of the Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity, and they represented the three classes into which French society of the time was divided: the clergy (blue), the nobility (white), and the third state (red). The "Phrygian" cap (Latin for pileus) painted in red in the painting also has a high symbolic value, In Roman times it was worn by the " freedmen" to show that they were now freed slaves but in the French Revolution it became the very symbol of Liberty; a similar cap was worn by the freed Marseilles convicts in 1792, and was the symbol of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. Due to this fact, in addition to its historical meaning of freedom, it was later adopted as a symbol of the revolution itself, a symbol immortalized on the "Marianne," the very emblem of France, in Eugène Delacroix's famous painting "Liberty Leading the People...

Oil on board painting by Jo Patch. A very colorful piece of decorative artwork that depicts a cityscape scene by a river or bay. Perhaps this is a view from somewhere in New York Ci...

Exceptional large framed and signed oil painting on canvas. Subject is a mother a child cheetah sitting in the grasses.