Guillaume Seignac Oil on Canvas "Good Friends" Beauty with Kitten Painting

Emanuel Oberhauser (Austrian, 1854-1919) an exceptional quality full length oil on canvas painting of a Young Orientalist Queen or Odalisque, 19th c...

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto. Late 19th Century. Monumental oil on canvas, set within an original carved giltwood frame. Unsigned. Measures: Canvas: 62 X 105in (157 X 266cm). Frame: 80 X 123in (204 X 312cm). This painting is after Russian artist Ilya Repin...

A massive Museum pair of Meiji Period Japanese Cloisonne Enamel chargers plates, attributed to Hayashi Kodenji Studio, 19th century. Each measuring ...

George Washington: A Masterful Portrait from the Circle of Gilbert Stuart, Circa 1820 This distinguished oil on canvas portrait of George Washington, dating to circa 1820, is in the...

Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a very fine and charming oil on canvas "Spring Beauties", depicting three young maidens picking flowers by a lake. The three young girls sitting, kneeling and laying on a grassy area of the forest, her wicker basket filled with the freshly picked flowers, the middle one wearing a bonnet and a straw-hat laying on the ground behind with butterflies flying by, within a gilt-wood and gesso carved frame. Signed (l/r): H. Zatzka. Circa: 1890-1900's, Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) was a well known and regarded Austrian fantasy artist whose most popular and valuable works depicted figures of young maidens with angels, floral and other cheerful and warm scenes, including Orientalist themes. In the past thirty years alone, the high quality and detail of his beautiful paintings has caught the attention of International collectors and art dealers alike, creating a highly sought after market and demand for his instantly recognizable body of work. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of Zazka's charming works were photographed for commercial and collectable postcards. Though no information about his works being exhibited in museums is currently available, most of Zatzka's paintings are in private collections and, in the past century, very few of them have become available on the open market. At the young age of eighteen Zatzka joined Austria's Academy of Fine Arts under the leadership of Professor Blaas. For his fine early works, in 1880 he received The Golden Fügermedal award. Zatzka, like many other artists of the era, traveled around Europe working and selling his art and, in one of his many trips to Italy, he developed a special interest in Religious themes, decorating churches with frescos as well as painting several religious scenes of Madonna's and Child, Saints, Angels and others. In 1885 Zatzka was commissioned to paint "The Naiad of Baden" a ceiling fresco at Kurhaus Baden. Most of Zatzka's income came from his work in religious art and special church commissions. Numerous leading art dealers from around the world that specialize in late 19th and early 20th century European genre paintings have come to the conclusion that the painter signing his works Bernard Zatzka, Joseph Bernard or J. Bernard is almost certainly the artist Hans Zatzka. The consensus seems quite plausible when comparing works known to have been executed by Hans Zatzka together with similar works displaying the signature; Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard or Bernard Zatzka. Lohengrin refers to the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward. It seems to bear some relation to the northern European folktale of “The Seven Swans,” but its actual origin is uncertain. It is also a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans...

Painting by Guillaume Wintz (1833-1829), shepherd with his flock, oil on canvas 36.34 x 28.93 inches (92.5 x 73.5 cm), signed and dated 1883. The painting ships from Germany.

Pietro Gabrini (Italian, 1856-1926) a very fine and large oil on canvas "Three Singing Italian Beauties on The Road" depicting three cheerful Village young maidens walking through a ...

Laurie Hill Phelps has been a painter for 37 years in Taos New Mexico. Her water colors and oils represent the colorful images of Northern New Mexico. Laurie's paintings have a life ...