Painting "Saint-Malo" Signed Nolot, French School, 1969

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...

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)...

Measurements with frames: Height 135 cm (53 in.), width 94 cm (37 in.) Magnificent pair of important paintings on the theme of “Fêtes galantes” and so dedicated to the art of sedu...

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...

Important painting representing a group of three women, one of whom is nude, having lunch near a river. In the foreground, near a basket of fruit, a naked woman, seated on a white to...

Saint-Malo, France is located on the Northern coast of Brittany and has a long history of overseas adventures, exploration, and of course, piracy. Saint-Malo eventually became a wealthy French port city over the centuries, allowing for such leisure activities as horse displays, including parading and racing. It is thought that horse racing on the beaches was taking place by at least the early 1800s in Saint-Malo. The oil on canvas painting seen here is a fantastic depiction of such an event during the 1840s. A giltwood frame with thick cavetto molding surrounds the colorful and vivacious scene. In the center of the painting, jockeys ride galloping horses between two flagpoles. There is a definitive international flair, with flags ranging from French to Swedish affixed to a judges’ platform on the side. In the foreground, a procession of petite noblesse arrives, led by a quartet of well-dressed gentlemen on horseback. Two carriages follow, one blue and one green, each led by a team of two horses. Soldiers dressed in blue overcoats and red pants walk the grounds with a leashed dog in tow as a woman in a long, deep blue dress rides by with a green train flowing from her black hat. A sea of spectators gathers behind the judges, lined against the wall surrounding the city. Some enterprising fans are perched atop pruned trees beneath the wall as well. A blue sky filled with white fluffy clouds fills the background, above even more spectators lining the balconies of buildings behind the wall. The wall extends further down the beach, in front of cream colored houses and windmills at the end of the city. At over three and a half feet wide, this 19th century painting of horse racing...

Large oil painting on paper affixed to a wooden panel. It is from artist Michel Nourry (1927-2006), signed and dated 1969. The depth of all the colors is very warm and just superb. ...

Fantastic vintage MCM original oil painting. A chic Abstract composition in deep greens and gold. Signed by the artist Rodrigues and dated 1969. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

A fantastic vintage painting of horses from the American School Equestrian, signed by the artist. Acquired at a Palm Beach estate.

A French Barbizon School framed oil on canvas painting from the early 20th century, depicting a pastoral farmyard scene and signed Theodore Linsyer. Born in France during the early y...

An oil on board abstract painting by American artist George Lewis (born 1944). Signed and dated to the lower right corner, this colorful work features bursts of colors in red, orange...