Oil on canvas, genre scene. It is probably about Suzanne Simonin, the narrator of Denis Diderot’s memoir “La Religieuse”, which is an ode to the freedom to choose one’s destiny…
18th century.
Italian school, entourage of Giuseppe Bonito.
Oil on canvas, family portrait.
In the middle of the 19th century, the bourgeoisie, actor and beneficiary of the industrial revolution, wanted to leave to posterity the image of its economic and social success. Failing to belong to a noble line, she celebrates the family, keystone of this new bourgeois model. The challenge is then to create an image for yourself at the same time as to build a genealogy, a historical legitimacy…
19th century,
France.
Oil on canvas, portrait of a gentleman,
Remarkable painting for lovers of old fabrics, and provocative looks, to look at it is to plunge into a world where everything is only “luxury, calm and pleasure”.
Circa 1700,
Italy
Oil on canvas “portrait of a woman with an ermine coat”,
Signed: Edward, dated: 1855
Oil on wood, children playing by the water. Unusual subject …
“Consolation”, oil on canvas (on its original canvas) depicting children who come to console their father who thinks of his young missing wife, against a landscape background.
18th century
French school
Oil on canvas (ancient doubling)
Portrait of a Lady with her dog,
Company of Donatien Nonnotte
Sculpted wooden original frame
Circa 1740
France
Genre scene, Austrian school from the late 18th century, gilted wooden frame.
“Portrait of Thérèsa Cabarrus” (1773-1835), known as Madame Tallien and princess of Chimay.
Oil on panel (with an ancient pen mark on the back) with Art Nouveau gilted bronze frame.
Circa 1820,
French school
Large oil on canvas representing a little girl in a white dress, holding to a olive tree branch, with at her feet an alphabet open book.
Gilted wooden frame.
19th century
France