20th Century French Signed Belle Epoque Etching

1970s Pair of important numbered and signed etching. Japan 1973. Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi off...

20th Century Italian Signed Landscape Beautiful and important painting by the great artist born in Turin, but of the Roman school, Filiberto Petiti ...

Beautiful black and white lithograph by the great 20th century Italian artist Umberto Mastroianni. This work best represents the work of one of the greatest artists of the European a...

Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...

Engraving signed France 20th Century a Women with a child "Epreuve d'artiste" 20th Century

Engraving by Jackson Paul Ackermann signed France 20th Century

The brilliant colors of this French nature morte are quite impressive, allowing the imagery to be seen crystal clear. Oil enhancements have been applied to this 20th-century transferred image to evoke similarities to the painting that it is after, which is currently housed in Le Louvre Museum in Paris. Our version is incredibly well-done and true to the Alexandre François Desportes original, which is entitled Game, Fruit, Flowers, and a Dog (1712). A variety of felled game (a rabbit and six birds) and a hunting rifle are displayed next to a stone fountain with a mythical creature mascaron water feature. The gadrooned basin is not filled with water, but rather a woven basket of blueberries next to a cluster of fruits including peaches and cherries (there is also a blue and white ceramic bowl full of peaches on a stone to the right of the fountain). Vibrant flowers in a wicker basket sit atop the thickly molded entablature of the cream-colored fountain. A pink rose bush grows on one side of the fountain, opposite from large, verdant bushes that obscure most of the blue sky. Laying beneath the fountain basin is a white hunting dog with black markings on its ears and face. Desportes was born in 1661 in Champigneulle, in northern France, later studying in Paris with the Flemish painter, Bernaerts. Initially, Desportes was a well-respected portrait painter, living in Poland during his mid-thirties to paint aristocrats such as King John III Sobieski. Upon the king’s death, Desportes returned to Paris and switched his focus to painting animals and floral arrangements. Both Louis XIV and Louis XIV commissioned Desportes to paint portraits of their favorite hunting dogs. Desportes would often join the kings on royal hunts, where he would travel with a notebook for still life sketches...

Engraving by Herbert Lespinasse, wtih it's in Gilt wood. Herbert Lespinasse was the only American deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp dur...