Barbizon School Paintings

A beautiful oil on canvas rendering of a stag hunt, presented in a fluted giltwood frame with a bundled husk border and large, parted leaves in the corners. The painting is signed in the lower right corner by the artist, “H. de Forges”, a member of the Barbizon French school of the late 1800s, who specialized in animal hunt scenes. The vibrancy of de Forges’ painting has not diminished over time; the colors seem to pop right off the canvas. A blue sky with some low-lying white clouds hangs above trees mainly bereft of leaves, indicating it is late autumn. Slender grass, ranging from green to brown, surrounds a watering hole in the middle of a clearing, with a single stag near the water’s edge. Eight white hunting dogs with black and tan markings surround the deer on one side of the pond. Behind the pack is a brown horse ridden by a huntsman dressed in red and black, preparing to sound the hunting horn. Two more riders in red, black, and white, also on brown horses, are emerging from a small hill behind the deer. Hunting, always a very important pastime in France, became one of the more popular genres in 19th century art, along with with quality pastoral and landscape paintings. Realism was a defining feature of the Barbizon School, as artists were attracted to spending more time living and painting in the natural world. Our hunt scene depicts the surrounding of prey, or pre-hunt revelry. The beautifully colored oil on canvas stag hunt painting...

Antique Joseph Henry Hatfield Stream in a Landscape Oil Painting

A visually striking painting executed in the Barbizon School style, this artwork portrays a serene countryside scene where three women seek refuge beneath a picturesque windmill. In ...

19th Century Painting Scene By Pierre Morinvidalle , Barbizon Style 4614 A 19th century painting of a bucolic scene in the woods with an old painter painting a lady on an easel, si...

A painting with the initials M L Maxime Lalanne on the lower left side, showing a pastoral scene with shepherds and camponeses gathering erva and palha in the field with wood shaving...

An idyllic, heroic image of shepherds and oxen against a rural background, painted in the Barbizon School style, with the name "Milburry" inscribed in the lower-right corner. Headlin...

A large and impressive vintage L Stephano Impressionist / Barbizon style landscape oil painting on canvas featuring a river runing through a picturesque cou...

A 19th Century river shore oil painting, transitioning from the a Barbizon School to the Impressionist Style, with wild flowers and sand in a low angle. A well conserved painting by...

A large scale 19th century Hudson River School landscape painting depicting people fishing on a moonlit lake. Unsigned. Original giltwood and gesso frame is in good condition with minor repair and touch-ups to gilt. Artist unknown, but similar in subject and composition to the Albert Bierdstadt painting "Lake Tahoe, Spearing Fish by Torchlight" and similar in style to the François Regis Gignoux Painting...

A lovely scene painted by Leon Barillot (1844-1929). Signed L. Barillot lower left.

Signed lower left. A genre scene along a Venice canal with ladies shopping. They stop at a vegetable stall under a white awning. The proprietor is seated doing needlework with her da...

LÉON JOUBERT French, active 1877-1900 Landscape View of Provence, France Oil on canvas signed lower left "L. Joubert", verso stamped on stretcher bars "505" Item # 109EFW24A A ...

JULES DUPRÉ French, 1811-1889 A Pastoral Landscape of Horses Drinking Oil on canvas Signed lower right "Jules Dupre", numbered verso with ink stamp "28288" circa 1840s Item # 11...

Antique French Barbizon school framed oil on canvas painting "Summer Landscape with Trees" by Léon Richet (1847-1907).

Rare, large and very beautiful oil painting by Jules Dupré (1811-1889), a French artist famous for his dramatic paintings of forests around Paris and one of the leaders of the Barbiz...

OLOF HERMELIN Swedish, 1827-1913 Collecting the Harvest Oil on canvas Signed lower left "O. HERMELIN" Item # 107LUY29P A vibrant scene of workers l...

"LAKEVIEW" (1868) BY FRANK HENRY SHAPLEIGH (AMERICAN, 1842-1906) In oil on canvas, signed lower left "F. H. Shapleigh 1868" Item # 001RDV25X Th...

19th century French framed floral oil painting. Stunning 19th century French framed oil on canvas painting. This gorgeous well executed Barbi...

CARL WEBER American, 1855-1929 "View at Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey" Oil on canvas Signed lower left "Carl Weber" Item # 106PPK09Q An incredibly fine and vivid work in ...

The 19th century oil on canvas portrays a landscape painted in the style of the French Barbizon School. A flowing river is on the lower right while a road borders it on the lower lef...

Exceptional 19th century landscape painting by Important American artist William Keith. Titled "Harvest". Barbizon School oil on canvas painting featuring figures at harvest with cart and oxen. Amazing luminescent sky. Signed lower left corner "W. Keith '96". Retains original museum quality gilt frame. Canvas measure 30"H 50"W. Accompanied with period correct Stereograph black and white photograph depicting actual painting in a parlor with handwritten pencil title "Parlor, Berkeley, Cal. '97". This is a museum quality work of art. William Keith (1838-1911) William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters" and "California's Old Master." Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Keith came to New York with his family and, apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm. After a visit to Paris, he expressed great admiration for "the modern school of French landscape painting including the Barbizon School. During the winter of 1871-1872, the Keiths lived in Boston where they shared a studio with William Hahn. Keith's work received critical acclaim there and in New York at the National Academy of Design. In 1872, he returned to San Francisco. A friendship with naturalist John Muir exposed Keith to many remote places and in-depth knowledge of nature. During the 1870s, he painted several "epic" eight by ten-foot High Sierra views. He also visited Alaska, and his paintings of Alaska were exhibited upon his return to San Francisco in a show at the Bohemian Club, titled 'Dreams of Alaska'. Keith's Alaska works are significant because they are not close transcriptions of actual scenery, but rather are fantasies inspired by Alaska. They are important as they represent a major break from the documentary tradition in landscape painting of Alaska, as they show an interest in capturing its spirit versus just the topography. In 1891, he shared his studio for several weeks with East Coast Tonalist George Inness, Sr. [1825-1894]. Both men painted in a similar style and were followers of the mystical teachings of Swedenborg. Among the locations where Inness and Keith painted together were Monterey and Yosemite, and it was reported they discussed art from every possible angle. Under Inness' influence, Keith painted more than ever in a Barbizon-influenced vein with many sunset and twilight scenes. Keith’s first wife died in 1882, and in 1883, he married Mary McHenry, the first woman graduate of Hastings Law School. They soon went to Europe, and Keith studied portrait painting in Munich with consultations from J. Frank Currier...

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...

LE VILLAGE ENSOLEILLÉ Emile-Charles Dameron (French, 1848-1908) Oil on canvas Signed lower left "E. DAMERON" Item # 105KIP14S A vivid scene depicting a young woman working by needl...

19th century Palatial oil on canvas of a young beauty. This large and impressive oil on canvas has a young woman in proper attire walking through the forest. The whole set in a finel...

Painting by Hermann Baisch (Dresden 1846-Karlsruhe 1894), “Farmers taking a Rest”, oil on canvas Hermann Baisch was a German painter and illustrator ...

Painting by Friedrich Eckenfelder (Berne 1861- 1938 Balingen), “Landscape in the Swabian Alps”, oil on canvas 58 x 40 cm, signed lower left. Friedrich Eckenfelder was a Swiss-Germa...

Painting by Desiree Thomassin (1858 Vienna - 1933 Munich), “Fishermen on the Beach”, oil on canvas 78x 110 cm (size without frame), 104 x 134 cm (with frame), signed lower right. ...

Painter School of Barbizon 19th Century Rural Scene with Peasant Girl and Goats Evocative French rural scene in evening light showing a young girl and h...

An American oil on canvas beautifully painted in a realistic manner of a hayfield. In the foreground and trees in the distance. Heavy impasto technique adds impressionist feeling. ci...

Oil on panel depicting a landscape of the Barbizon school undergrowth and characters in the drill fontainbleau, signed lower right by Ernest Guillemer.

Georges Henri Bilhaut (1882-1963) /France: Painting 'Small Hamlet before a Storm', Early 19th Century An evocative scene of a French Val de Lou small villag...

A bucolic & sensitively rendered Barbizon School pastoral landscape depicting a lone figure shepherding a flock of sheep down a dusk lit country road. Although signed illegibly, thi...

A French Barbizon school painting of a herd of sheep with shepherd and dog by French artist Pablo Martinez Del Rio from the late 19th century in giltwood frame. This French Barbizon ...

A French Barbizon School oil on canvas painting of cattle herd in a landscape by Pablo (Pierre) Martinez Del Rio, second half of the 19th century. This French plein air painting...

Great Barbizonian Landscape Of JL Verdié Very large oil on canvas in the style of Barbizon signed Jean-Louis Verdié. This lake landscape typical of paintings of this period bears a c...