Carl Gutherz or Guthers (Tennessee/Missouri, 1844-1907) oil on canvas painting of a man, half length, in profile. He wears late-19th century Continental style clothing including a feathered hat that casts shadows across his face. Signed “Carl Gutherz / Paris” lower right. Housed in an ebonized frame with gilt moldings. Sight: 11 1/8″ H x 9 […]

Mary Jett Franklin (American/Georgia, 1842-1928), La Toilette, oil on canvas painting depicting a young girl with blonde hair washing her hands in a bowl at a table, c. 1895. Signed lower right, “Mary Franklin / Paris.” Unframed. 39 1/2″ H x 31″ W. Exhibition History: Salon de Champs-de-Mars, Paris, 1896 (illustrated in the catalog as […]

Two (2) Greek or Russian Eastern Orthodox painted icons on gilt panels. Item 1: Oil on wood panel Lamentation at the Cross icon with the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist flanking the crucified Christ, and God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above, 19th century or earlier. […]

Charles Landseer (British, 1799-1879) oil on panel painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott’s 1825 Orientalist novel The Talisman, from the Waverley series, c. 1840-1860. Richard the Lionheart lies ill in his tent and several women, including his wife, Berengaria of Navarre, Queen Consort of England, and Lady Edith Plantagenet, attend to him. This […]

Meyer R. Wolfe (Tennessee/New York, 1897-1985), “The Conversation,” WPA era oil on panel painting depicting two African American women standing deep in conversation at a clothesline, with the steeple of a church visible in the background against a darkening sky. Unsigned. Two exhibition labels en verso. Panel: 20″ H x 24″ W. Frame: 25″ H x 30″ W. Exhibition […]