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Jules Martin - 1870 Oil, Rue de l'Hôpital

1870

This charming study depicts a bustling market square with figures carrying baskets of goods, milling the streets and working. To the distance there is a sweeping view of the rooftops...

A meticulously detailed street scene by James D. Barnett (active 1855-1892), a British artist based in Crouch End, Hornsey. An inscription on the reverse of the board identifies the ...

A nineteenth-century oil study depicting two figures rowing on a tranquil river, with trees, livestock, and rustic farm buildings on the bank beyond. Well presented in a decorative s...

A charming depiction of 19th-century French figures in the formal reception room of a French château. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame with a painted inner window. On canvas.

Vieielle France is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Jean Lereu, in the late 19th century. Hand-signed in the lower right margin. 49.5x69 cm with frame. Good condit...

About this work: Painted in 1863, the same year Gabriel Davioud’s fountain in the square was completed, this remarkably early view of Place Pigalle captures this important artist's n...

Large French painting dated 1899. Oil painting on canvas, first canvas, depicting a view of a country village with characters and animals of good...

Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846 (Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846) François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887) Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame. Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher 6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches Provenance: Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot Paul Prouté André Watteau Charles Sadler Galerie Berès, Paris Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999 Literature: International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus. Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour. He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression. Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands. François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...