Roman Forum: The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Horrea Agrippiana Oil on canvas 43.5 x 3.,5 cm Signed lower right: C. Holsøe. Circa 1897-1898 Provenance: Isabel Goldsmith collection Our elegant view of the Roman Forum is an invitation to enter into the work of Carl Vilhelm Holsoe. One of the greatest artists of the…
(1799 Amiens – Paris 1858) Road Along the Tombs at Taormina Oil on canvas 41.2 x 59.5 cm Signed and dated, lower left: P. Thuillier.1841. Exhibition: Paris, Salon de 1843, no. 1139 Provenance : Sale after the death of the artist, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Maître Pillet, 14 February 1859, No. 36 “La voie des Tombeaux,…
(1758 Cluny – Paris 1832) La Toilette Oil on canvas 32,5 x 24 cm PROVENANCE: Abel Vautier Collection; Grille Collection; Guibert Collection (bought from the previous owner for 1100 francs in 1830); Feuardent Collection; André Lazard Collection EXHIBITION: Exposition, Caen, 1861, no. 41; Exposition des œuvres de Prud’hon au profit de sa fille, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris 4…
(1877 – Paris – 1957) Two Views of the Gardens at the Villa Medici in Rome : the Loggia and the Piazzale Fountain A pair, oil on canvas 33 x 46 cm and 32,3 x 45 cm One signed and dated lower left : GEORGES LEROUX 1912 PROVENANCE : Private collection, France. It was after…
(1882 Bordeaux – Paris 1964) Metaphysical Architecture Oil on isorel 39 x 58,5 cm Monogrammed and dated, lower right 1945 Along with Rome and Paris, the city of Bordeaux occupied an essential place in the work of Jean Dupas. Born in the city, he took his first courses on the banks of the Garonne in…
(1777 Lyon -1852 Ecully) Montaigne Visiting Le Tasse Oil on canvas 130 x 100 cm Circa 1822 PROVENANCE: Lyon, the artist’s descendants BIBLIOGRAPHY: Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Fleury Richard et Pierre Révoil, La Peinture Troubadour, Arthena, 1980 Having chosen the stairwell of the crypt of the Lyon Church of Saint-Irenaeus, Richard depicts the meeting of Michel de…
View of the Small Town of La Cava, in the Kingdom of Naples, Seen from the Salerno Side Oil on canvas 71.5 x 98 cm Signed lower left: P. Chauvin Circa 1810 PROVENANCE : Possibly the collection of the Duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838); by inheritance, Alexandre-Edmond (1787-1872) (his nephew); Napoléon-Louis (1811-1898) (his great-nephew); possibly the…
CALLED JAMES BERTRAND (Lyon 1823 – Orsay 1887) Lesbia end the Sparrow Oil on canvas 110 x 65 cm Signed and dated, lower left : JAMES BERTRAND.1875. PROVENANCE : Scottish, private collection EXHIBITION : Salon de 1875, n°185 After growing up in Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand joined the studio of Claude Bonnefond, a former pupil 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…
Two studies of a man Oil on canvas 38,5 x 50 cm Executed circa 1840-45 PROVENANCE : Collection of the artist ; his sale, Paris, 20 march-1st april 1876 (stamp on the reverse of the stretcher) Pils studied painting under Lethière, then in the studio of Picot, winning the Prix de Rome in Paris, after…
