Painting "Music Lesson" by Giuseppe Ghedina, Italy, circa 1860

Charming pair of paintings representing young women in well-off interiors during their music lesson, one illustrating a singing lesson and the other a Cello lesson. The theme of the music lesson...

Large Orientalist painting, lovely framed, representing a group of three nomads and their camel in a rocky desert setting bathed in sunlight...

Signed on the bottom right Henry Picou. Charming mythological scene representing a round of nymphs, symbol of fertility and benevolence, wearing crowns of flowers and dancing in the middle of a wheat field. They are accompanied by playful winged cupids flying around them and throwing flowers. Author of genre and portrait scenes, Henry Picou has mainly distinguished himself, in the neo-Greek movement of the second half of the 19th Century, in the representation of allegorical paintings thanks to his delicate and colorful touch. Born on July 27th, 1824 in Nantes and died on July 17th, 1895 in Paris, Henry-Pierre Picou is an history, portrait and genre scenes painter, who has distinguished himself in the Neo-greek movement. Entering at twelve years old in the workshop of the painter Paul Delaroche, he then follows Charles Gleyre’s teaching in the Ecole Royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In Paris, he becomes friend with young painters among which Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Louis Hamon. This group, who is passionate about recent discoveries about Roman and Greek antiquity, starts exposing in the Salon in 1847, and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting, le Combat de coqs, awarded with a gold medal, allows them to be noticed and devotes Gérôme as the leader of this new Neo-greek movement. This artistic movement quickly becomes fashionable, also influencing the decorative arts and the architecture. Henry Picou wins the second prize of Rome in 1853 for his painting Jésus chassant les marchands du Temple, preserved today in the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. When Neo-greek artists are not so popular anymore, Henry Picou devotes himself to a career as a portraitist and genre scene painter, and exposes to the Salon paintings...

Oil on panel signed A.A. Lesrel and dated 1912, representing three musicians and a singer in a luxurious seventeenth century Flemish interior. Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel (1839-1929)...

Inscribed Cecilia Josuan, Colegio de N. S. del Huerto, Buenos Aires, 1896 A rare “fixé sous verre” painting using a combined technique of chromolithography for the faces and hands, ...

Nice painting representing the harbor of Saint-Mao, in France, painted by Pierre Nolot and dated "69".    

Oil on canvas by Giuseppe De Gregorio (Italian, 1920-2007) 1960s. Signed on lower right. In a nice gilt frame.

H. RIVERS American School, 19th century The First Lesson on the Drum Oil on Canvas Signed lower left "H. Rivers" label verso ex. Schwarz Gallery Item...

German oil on canvas from the 1600s depicting figures in an indoor scene of a music lesson. Attributed to the school of Jacob Lucasz Ochtervelt (1634 - 1682). Comes with a later-peri...

Marie De Garay (France, 1861-1953) "Dance Lesson" original oil painting, circa 1890 Fine original oil painting by listed French Artist Marie De Garay d...

19th century painting entitled knitting lesson by Eugenio Zampighi Title: Knitting Lesson Artist: Eugenio Zampighi (1859–1944) Origin: Italian signed E. Zampighi (lower right) D...

Oil painting Empress Maria Theresa in Hungary, circa 1860. Empress Maria Theresia asks the Hungarian Estates for support. Oil on canvas, 51 x 70 cm, ...