French School

19th Century French Portrait of a Lion original painting

This exquisite miniature painting by Dina Brodsky captures the striking presence of a Drongo bird, rendered in gouache and watercolor on authentic calf parchment. Known for her metic...

This exquisite miniature painting by Dina Brodsky features a solitary raven rendered in rich blue and black tones, painted with remarkable precision on deer parchment. A master of co...

Dina Brodsky’s miniature painting of a butterfly is a masterful study of nature’s fragility and beauty. Meticulously rendered on panel, the piece captures the shimmering interplay of...

A captivating miniature painting by renowned artist Dina Brodsky, known for her masterful technique in gouache and watercolor. This exquisite work, painted on authentic animal parchm...

A captivating miniature painting by renowned artist Dina Brodsky, known for her masterful technique in gouache and watercolor. This exquisite work, painted on authentic animal parchm...

In her realist gouache on paper animal miniature, "Green Bird," 2018, Dina Brodsky captures and highlights the full chromatic range of the bird's plumage. The fine detail of the bird...

John Ruthven is recognized as the “20th-century Audubon. In this very detailed and meticulously rendered work the artist depicts a Koala in an iconic and proud pose and a Photoreali...

Early naturalistic wildlife rendering by the English artist Peter Paillou. The work features a delicately rendered depiction of a possible capuchin monke...

Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688) Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater) On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm ​The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German. ​ Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left