Young Girl Watering Horses by Georges Calvés

Acrylic on canvas. Darling portrait of a young girl with a bow in her hair. Signed Kiki on the bottom right.  

Anna Salvatore (1923-1978), Italy. Midcentury beauty featuring two young sisters stylistically painted with colors of the time.

Anna Salvatore (1923-1978) Italy. Midcentury beauty featuring two young girls stylistically and colors of the time.

Mixed-media on canvas.

Portrait of a young Russian or French girl executed in charcoal and gouache on paper. Harlamoff was most renowned for his masterful portraits of young girls of which this is a fine example, chosen for their charming and innocent beauty. Signed lower left A. Harlamoff. Signed on the reverse Alexei Harlamoff. Alexei Harlamoff was born in the village of Dyachevka near Saratov on the Volga. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and he won both a Gold Medal and a scholarship in 1868. The scholarship enabled him to travel to Paris, where he studied under portrait painter Léon Bonnat, and by 1874 he was visited by Russian marine painter Alexei Bogoliubov, who reported back to Russia on the young artist’s visible success. In 1875, Harlamoff exhibited his portraits of Louis and Pauline Viardot to great acclaim, marking a turning point in his career. French writer Emile Zola...

Portrait Painting of Young Girl by Dana Coomans 40.25 x 26.25