Small Painting by Jean Hugo from 1927

This neoclassical trompe l'oeil painting is an allegory of summer. It would have been hung with allegories of the other three seasons over the doors of a salon. Ceres, Roman goddess...

A ram lowers its horns in a face off with a barking dog that rises on its haunches. An ox turns its head to watch the row. An annoyed ewe glances over its shoulder, but the two behin...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

An Edwardian-style deckchair for a yacht in mahogany and brass with buttoned upholstery. The chair was one of several made in France for the Paris decorator, furniture designer, and ...

Designed around 1930, each monumental standing lamp of brass and acid-etched glass is marked Perzel on the base by the switch. A chrome version was published in the French design ma...

According to Japanese folklore the fox, or kitsune, can assume human form to protect and trick humble country folk. Dating to the 18th century, this fox protects its own pup. Carved ...

Beautiful painting, a flower still life with vibrant colors by the Belgian painter Pol C. Parmentier. Oil on canvas, the painting is framed in a wooden gilt frame, original from the ...

We offer an exquisite Aboriginal artwork created by Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (1927-2009) in 2002, sourced from the Papunya Tula Art Center. Her work can be found in the collections of th...

Small oil-based painting purchased in Paris, France in the 1930s-1940s.  

Jean Ernest Aubert, born in Paris 1824. He was trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. "Sunrise with fishing boats", oil on panel, signed lower left. Size with frame: 43 x 56 c...

Artist: Jean Carolus Painted: 1862 Medium: Oil on board Interior Scene Period: Romanticism Signed & Dated: Lower left J. Carolus 1862 Dimensions: H: 24 3/4 / 62.8 cm W: 18 3/4...

A bright coloured painting by Artist Hugo Newton. Born in Venezuela Newton studied in both Venezuela and Italy, graduating from the Insitituto Europeo de Diseno, Milan. His work has ...