Victor LEFRANC

French romantic painting Oil on paper TANCARVILLE castle Normandy 19th

1839

Théophile Clément BLANCHARD 1820 - 1849 Oil on canvas 27 x 40 cm (45 x 58 cm with the frame) Signed lower right "Blanchard" Very nice 19th century gilded wooden frame French painter, lithographer and illustrator, Théophile Clément Blanchard is part of of those painters of the romantic era who represented picturesque views of France like Alexis Daligé de Fontenay or Eugène Cicéri. These painters traveled a lot and sought out picturesque sites, particularly in Normandy, Brittany, Switzerland and the Pyrenees. Blanchard participated in the illustration of “Picturesque and Romantic Travels in the Old France”. But the works of this romantic painter are rare because Blanchard died very young at twenty-nine year old ! We still know of him, in particular, a view of Bugey (dated 1846) which is at the Louvre Museum and a “Delicious Landscape” (from the 1840s) at the Salies museum at Bagnères de Bigorre...

French school from the mid-19th century Oil on paper 33 x 46 cm (37 x 51 cm with the frame) Inscription on the verso "Avon"

3792 Oil on canvas set in a hand painted frame of a French castle with workers in the field

Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974), Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Studio stamp verso.