Louis-Auguste-Gustave, called Gustave Doré (1832 Starsbourg – Paris 1883) Castle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland Oil on canvas 112, 7 x 196, 2 cm Signed and dated lower right : Gve Doré 1877 Stamped, lower left, with the studio cachet de vente Literature: Henri Leblanc, Catalogue de l’Oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré, Paris,…
LEONARDO COCCORANTE (1680 Naples 1750) Architectural caprices A pair, oil on canvas 205 x 152 cm Circa 1730 Bear an inventory number on the canvas at the back top right : 220 and 222 PROVENANCE : Count of Dampierre, by descent, Count Aymeric de Dampierre ; private collection, France Coccorante began his studies in the…
GUSTAVE DORE (Strasburg, 1832 – 1883 Paris) ‘Sunbeam’ R.Y.S., the celebrated yacht of Thomas and Annie Brassey Grey wash heightened with white 368 x 240 mm Signed lower right: G Doré The Sunbeam, a three-masted topsail-yard schooner, 157 ft (48 m) long, weighing 532 tons and equipped with a 350-horsepower steam engine, was built in…
CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (1713 Avignon – Paris 1789) View of the Temple of Venus with Castello di Baia in the background Black Chalk, ink and black, grey and brown wash 410 x 690 mm c. 1750 PROVENANCE: formerly part of an album assembled in Vienna in the 19th century; Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris, 20 November 1854, part of…
Dusk on the Ile d’Herblay Oil on canvas 33 x 46 cm Signed and dated lower right Guilloux 95 PROVENANCE: Private collection, France A self-taught artist fascinated by the color theories of Chevreuil and Odgen Rood, Guilloux exhibited for the first time in 1892, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. The eight works that he…
Element from a funerary monument White marble 112,5 x 22 x 30 cm Our funerary monument represents a length of fabric draped across an entablature, framed by two skulls and surmounted in the center by two crossed bones and a jawbone; we situate its making to France and date it to the mid-17th century. On the…
(1838 Paris 1902) The Embroideress Large preliminary version in terra cotta Height: 42,8 cm ; width at base: 30 cm ; depth at base: 18 cm 1870 “A charming and original thing is The Embroideress by M. Jules Dalou, a student of Carpeaux: this is a young woman in modern dress, seated in a chair, and doing needlework. The…
(1737 – Paris – 1817) Figure de l’Egalité Sketch, Terracotta Height : 26,6 cm 1773 Exhibition : Paris, Salon 1773, n°220
Portrait of Jeanne d’Arc Terracotta Height : 56 cm 1800 – 1820
(Paris, 1704-Paris, 1778) Presumed portrait of Madame Mazeline Bust in terra cotta Total height : 55 cm Base height : 10 cm Base in Breche marble 1743 Provenance : Private collection, Ile de France Born into a dynasty of artists including Simon Guillain, his paternal grandfather, his father, Jean-Louis, and his uncle Jean-Baptiste I, all…
