French School (Early 18th Century)
Oil on canvas.
Painting size: 25” x 34”
Frame size: 30” x 39.25 ”
These sumptuous female figures serve as allegories for two prized arts in France at the turn of the 18th century. On the left is sculpture, signified by a chisel in her hands. She sits beside a pair of Roman busts, one overturned, the other sporting a helmet possibly representing Pallas Athene...
Jeune Fille Avec Guitare (Young Woman with Guitar), mid 19th century
Oil on artist board
Painting Size: 13.75” x 11”
Frame Size: 19.25 ” x 16”
Dahlias
Oil on canvas, signed with conjoined initials and dated: “(19)33” and retaining a supply stencil on the center stretcher.
Painting size: 25.5” x 21.25”
Frame size: 30.75” x 26.25”
Modernist View of a Harbor
Oil on board, signed lower right
Painting: 8 ½” x 13”
Frame: 14” x 18 ¼”
Espanita Cortez joined L’Opéra Comique in 1946 as a principal dancer. She also became the dance master and choreographer. Cortez was noted as an interpreter of Spanish regional dances and flamenco...
Solange Bertrand (French, 1913-)
Watercolor on paper, signed and dated “(19)55.”
Apparently in good condition (not examined out of the frame) .
Sight size: 10.5” x 14.25”
Frame size 16" x 19.5"
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Painter, sculptor and engraver Solange Bertrand was born in Montigny-les-Metz, France...
Girl Pursued by Her Lover
Oil on paper, painted in the round, signed indistinctly.
Frame Diameter: 16”
The young girl, being pursued by her hiding lover, is a direct reference to Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Pursuit in his Pursuit of Love series created for Mme. du Barry in the late eighteenth century. The young girl’s outstretched arms, arabesque leg, and flowing skirts are in the same position in each painting...
H.H. Flere (French, 19th/20th Century)
Grisaille Gouache on paper, signed and dated: “1902”.
(small tears and scratches, upper right corner)
Sight size: 16.5” x 12.25”
Frame size: 20.5” x 16.25”
Louis Phillipe Kamm (French, 1882-1959)
Oil on canvas, titled, signed and dated on the back, “Square in Brussels/ Louis Kamm/ 1932.”
Painting size: 16” x 13”
Frame size: 21.25” x 18”
Painter and professor Louis Phillipe Kamm taught at the School of Decorative Arts in his hometown of Strasbourg...
Young Girl with Paper Dolls
Oil-on-canvas, Unsigned
Oval: 19” x 14 ¼”
Frame: 25 ½” x 20 ¾”
This charming study of a young girl intent on cutting out paper dolls is reminiscent of works by Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (his earlier works). She is beautifully captured with her rosebud lips, her hair tied up in a bow, a lacy pinafore over her navy dress and stockinged legs ...
Courtyard in Fontarrabie, Spain
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left, located ”Fontarabie” (sic) and dated “1926
Painting: 20” x 23 ½”
Frame: 29” x 33”
Fontarrabie is the French name for the Spanish town of Hondarribia. a coastal town in Basque country Spain, on the French border.
Léonard was a painter of figures, interiors, landscapes and still lifes...
The Hurdy Gurdy Player
Oil on canvas
Painting Size: 12.25” x 10.5”
Frame Size: 22.25” x 20.25”
This charming moonlit scene with peasants around a campfire and its monochromatic harmony place it in a tradition of genre painting that goes all the way back to Brueghel...
Louis Courtin (French, 19th/20th century)
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on the reverse.
Painting size: 18.25” x 21.75”
Frame size: 21.5” x 25.5”
The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt...
$14,500
Oil on canvas, retaining a paper label on reverse reading: “Souvenir offert a mon viel ami Babcock/ F...
IMPRESSIVE STILL LIFE OF ROSES
Oil On Canvas, signed lower right signed and dated: 1895
With an exceptional Period Gold Leaf Frame
Frame:29 X 36 1/2
Frame: 38.5" x 46"
Table Top Still Life with Fruit and Roses
Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated "1887"
Painting: 16" x 21 ½”
Frame: 19 ½”x 24"
Henri Dominique Roszezewski (French, 19th/20th century)
Oil on panel, signed.
A painter of landscapes and still lifes, Roszezewski studied under Maillard...
Sailboats
Oil on board, signed.
Painting: 20" x 24"
Frame: 27" x 31"
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