“Nude and Mirror” Pastel by Robert Duflos, France, 20th Century

Madeleine Renaud (1900 - 1994) Vase with a bouquet of flowers. Watercolor on paper, framed under glass. France, 20th century. Dimensions with frame : 52 x 44 x 4.5 cm. Dimensi...

Watercolor on paper by François Rivoire (1842-1919) Bouquet of flowers Signed lower right. Stains on the paper (see photos, top right) Frame d...

Oil on canvas by Louis Haas (1870-1923) Signed on the corner France, 20th century Frame dimensions : 70 x 56 x 4 cm Painting dimensions : 61 x 47 cm Small losses of paintin...

Oil on canvas by Louis Haas (1870-1923) Signed on the corner France, 20th century Frame dimensions : 70 x 56 x 4 cm Painting dimensions : 61 x 47 cm Lack of paint, some chi...

The drawing is a pastel work from the late 19th or early 20th century and it features a female nude seated in a chair smoking a cigarette. It is titled "Gisele." The artist's signature on the piece is "M. van Bever de la Quintinie." The technique used here is pastel drawing, a medium where artists use sticks of pigment to create various hues on paper. The nature of pastel allows for soft textures and subtle blending of colors, which is evident in the gentle gradations on the figure's skin and the velvet texture of the seat. The model used named 'Gisele' could potentially refer to the remarkable lady by the name of Gisèle d'Estoc. Gisèle d’Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at least one duel with another woman, inspiring Bayard’s famous painting on the subject. The true identity of this enigmatic woman remained unknown and was even considered fictional until recently, when Melanie C...

Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...

Signed Pietri French Mid-Century Modern framed oil painting resting nude woman. Traditionally those paintings were hung above the bed in a master...

Oil painting on canvas signed Hilgers in the lower right, from the 1930s, representing a young woman sort of naked Olympia in the Art Deco style. Canvas size 100 x 50 cm and frame di...