Galerie Ars Pictura

Jacques BERTAUX (attributed to) (c. 1745 Arcis-sur-Aube - 1818) Battle of Brigands Oil on canvas H. 38 cm; W. 45.5 cm Unsigned Certainly a pupil of Jean Pillement, Jacques Bertaux o...

Antoine Louis MANCEAUX (Calvi, 1862 - Beauvais, 1939) The sculptor Jean-Paul Aubé working on the plaster cast of a statue of Shakespeare Oil on canvas, formerly mounted on cardboard ...

Marianne Loir (Paris 1705 – Paris 1783) Presumed Portrait of Jean-Jacques-Blaise Baloin de Belvèse, Baron de Vennac (?-1781) Oil on oval canvas H. 54.5 cm; W. 46 cm Unsigned Grandda...

Studio of Rosa Bonheur (Bordeaux 1822 – Thomery 1899) Ploughing in the Nivernais Oil on canvas H. 62 cm; W. 120 cm (97 x 154 cm including frame) Unsigned Ploughing in the Nivernais ...

Eiler Carl SORENSEN (Benløse 1869 - 1953) Interior with Staircase Oil on canvas H. 61 cm; W. 55 cm Signed lower right Circa 1930 Exhibition: 1969, Bordeaux, Exposition des Amis des ...

Italian School, late 17th century Salome and the Head of Saint John the Baptist Oil on canvas H. 109 cm; W. 83 cm Unsigned The theme of Salome receiving the head of Saint John the B...

François-Maurice ROGANEAU (Bordeaux 1883 - Aix-en-Provence 1973) Portrait of the model and future wife of the painter: Almerinda Caira Graphite, charcoal, and sanguine on paper H. 25...

Jean François Marie Bellier (Paris 1745 – Paris 1836) Portrait of a Man Oil on oval canvas laid flat H. 45 cm; W. 55 cm Signed on the left Circa 1790 Jean François Marie Bellier occ...

Jean-Louis PREVOST (attributed to) (Nointel, 1745 – Paris, 1827) Flowers in a Glass, Resting on a Book Gouache on paper H. 38.5 cm; W. 30.5 cm Unsigned The biography of Jean-Louis P...

Early 20th-century French School Portrait of Daniel Schlumberger at age 34 Pastel H. 99.5 cm; W. 63.5 cm Title and dated lower right. Unsigned 1913 The Schlumberger family, of Prote...

Joseph LÉPINE (Rochefort 1867 – Paris 1943) The Church of Caillac - Lot Oil on cardboard H. 33 cm; W. 41 cm Signed lower left Joseph Lépine quickly moved to Bordeaux, where he studied under Louis-Alexandre Cabié, a well-known landscape painter in the region and teacher of many early 20th-century artists. Despite the master's warnings, he sought to confront the Parisian modernity of the late 19th century and discover Impressionist and even early Post-Impressionist styles. There, he became a student of the neoclassical painters Courtois and Girardot, both former students of the great Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1897, he exhibited at the Salon, where he sent landscapes of Provence. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1905, the same year that the Fauves Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck participated in and became known at the Salon d'Automne. A purchase by the French government of the 1908 Salon des Indépendants, "Vieille boutique," now housed at the Menton Museum, officially launched his career. He exhibited that year in London at the Royal Albert Hall, at the invitation of the Allied Artists' Association, demonstrating the painter's distinguished status within the international art scene. In Paris, the artist met several well-known painters of the time in the Montmartre and Montparnasse neighborhoods, including Matisse and Signac. His painting is based in particular on his approach to material, light, and color, whose juxtapositions present a play of saturation and composition based on apparent reserves. After the First World War, Lépine returned more to his home region, where he painted landscapes around Bordeaux and up the Dordogne River to the charming landscapes of the lower Corrèze. He painted Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, Argentat, and also the Lot region, with the built-up escarpments of Saint Circq Lapopie. The city of Bordeaux and the French government acquired two of his works, representing a landscape near Verdelais and a view of the Saint-Michel Church in Bordeaux, in 1939 and 1941. Considered today a very important figure in Bordeaux painting...

Jac MARTIN-FERRIÈRES (Saint-Paul Cap de Joux 1893 – Neuilly sur Seine 1972) The Painter (Self-Portrait) - Sketch Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; W. 65 cm Signed lower left, dated 1925 Exhibi...