Painting "The Tuaregs", Italian school Circa 1900

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...

Signed on the base Prof. G. Ca...? Charming illuminating alabaster sculpture representing a young naked woman leaning on rocks, and seated at the edge of a source concealing a lig...

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 music lesson, composed of a group of three elegantly dressed ladies, listening to a musician playing the lute and accompanied on vocals by a man hold a musical score in hand. The artist’s genre scenes are distinguished by the softness of the eyes, the romanticism of the attitudes and the harmony of the tones used. Giuseppe Ghedina is born in Cortina d’Ampezzo on March 1st, 1825, he started studying in 1838 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Pupil of Ludovico...

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

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...

Hand painted sign from classroom door. More similar signs with different numbers (pictures on request)

Italian School 17th Century Oil Painting The Musician Italian school 17th century oil painting the musician 17th century oil on canvas with a cos...

Miniature painting European. Circa 1900. Marie Antoinette Painted by Andre, Signed. After the original by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) Measuring 3...

From Italy, this pair of still life paintings depict fruit and vegetables beneath an urn flowing down and over a bench. The compositions c...

An oil exquisit scene of a Californian forest with two persons walking, signed "C H Harmon" by the proeminet american master painter Charles Henry Harmon of the still virgin woods of...

Late 19th-century Belgian oil painting of an industrial Antwerp port mounted in a thin wooden frame. An abstracted tangle of smoky, charcoal browns and creamy ochres, the scene is mo...