Pencil and watercolor fan design drawing on very thin vellum with image after the Guido Reni (Italy, 1575-1642) original ceiling fresco "The Triumph of Apollo led by the Aurora" from the garden house adjacent to the Palazzo Rosigliosi in Rome, Italy. In this design, the image depicts the chariot flying over a European pastoral landscape […]

Continental school, possibly Spanish, oil on canvas life-sized portrait of a nobleman depicted standing full length in an interior setting against a draped background and red carpet. The subject has grey hair and facial hair and is attired in an ermine-trimmed embroidered short cloak or cape emblazoned with a red Crusaders or Templar cross, an […]

Continental School, late 18th – early 19th century oil on canvas portrait painting depicting Sarah Siddons, the renowned Welsh actress known for her roles in tragedies, most notably as the Shakespearean Lady Macbeth. The sitter is depicted in profile with her back to the viewer, with plaited hair and headscarf wrapped in pearls, wearing a […]

Auguste Delacroix (French, 1809-1868) oil on canvas bucolic landscape painting. Figures in boats glide past a riverbank filled with resting peasants, cows and a dog; a Chateau rises in the distance, under a partly cloudy sky. Signed lower left and dated 1850. Housed in an ornate carved composite and giltwood molded frame. Sight: 20" H […]

Antoine Blanchard (French, 1910-1988) oil on canvas Impressionist Parisian street scene painting set outside the Galeries LaFayette department store on Boulevard Haussmann in the early 20th century. Figures including women with shopping baskets walk up and down the busy sidewalk while horses and a large carriage navigate the roadway. Colorful signage and glowing lights add […]

Henri Hecht Maik (France, 1922-1993) oil on canvas painting of a lion amidst flowers rendered in delicate impasto, signed "MAIK 71" lower right under frame. Label en verso for Findlay Galleries Inc. Chicago. Housed in giltwood frame with canvas liner and gilt filet having brass label identifying the artist. Sight: 6 1/4" H x 5" […]

Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) oil painting on silk mounted on masonite entitled “Jeunes Filles aux Bouquets,” c. 1950s. The painting depicts three young women among vases filled with flowers, before a golden-yellow background. The figures at left and center carefully arrange the bouquets while the figure at right turns her back to the viewer as […]

Guillermo Gomez Mayorga (Mexico, 1887-1962) oil on canvas landscape painting with subtle impasto titled "Mira-Flores MEX" depicting the Mexican village and its towering cathedral in the midground of a vast landscape with a cowherd and his cattle traversing the plains in the foreground and the snowcapped Sierra Laguna mountains rising in the background. Titled and […]

Alfonso Grosso (Spain, 1893-1983) oil on canvas painting titled "Sevilla" depicting a busy street in downtown Seville, Spain lined with shops and businesses having figures, including two nuns, traversing in different directions underneath sunshades draped overhead. The painting features bright colors and a unique contrasting light technique in which the areas exposed to sunlight are […]

Jules Worms (France/Spain, 1834-1924) oil on canvas genre painting depicting a man seated on a donkey, serenading a woman standing in a balcony overhead. Signed "J Worms" lower right. Stamp for Tasset & Lhote, Paris en verso of canvas and stretcher. Artist name engraved on nameplate lower center of frame. Housed in an ornate giltwood […]