Ink and Watercolor Signed Charles Levier Young Woman in Port

Rare and beautiful pair of etchings on BFK Rives watermarked vellum paper, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1920. "On the Terrace" and "Nude" engraved by Jean Emile Buland (1857-1938), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1880 after paintings by Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) Perfect condition of the etching and the plate "On the Terrace" Perfect condition of the etching with slight fading on the edges of the plate "Nude" Dimensions: "On the Terrace" etching: Plate: 465 x 307 mm - Engraving: 262 x 165 mm - Engraving plate: 310 x 210 cm "Nude" etching: Plate: 464 mm x 332 mm - Engraving: 270 x 217 mm - Engraving plate: 333 x 255 mm Engraved signatures by Em. Buland below the engravings (+ handwritten countersignature in pencil by Emile Buland below the engraving "On the Terrace"). Engraved signatures by A. Calbet in the plates, lower left & Blank stamp signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the plate, lower left. Jean-Emile Buland was born in Paris in 1857 into a family of artists. His father, Jean-Marie Buland (1825-1895), was an engraver and his brother, Jean-Eugène (1852-1926), was a painter. Jean-Emile Buland studied under the painter Alexandre Cabanel and the engraver Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. He won the 1st Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1880. He received a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition and a first-class medal at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901. Antoine Calbet, born August 16, 1860 in Engayrac (Lot-et-Garonne) and died August 21, 1942 in Paris, was a French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, engraver, and illustrator. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier by Édouard-Antoine Marsal (1845-1929), where he learned drawing, this draftsman and illustrator, a painter of nudes and romantic scenes, was sought after during his lifetime. He was then admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). He was a member of the Fine Arts admissions jury from 1913 to 1930. He began exhibiting in 1880 and became a member of the Society of French Artists. He was a friend of French President Armand Fallières. He received several medals at the Salon des Artistes Français and a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition for his work on a panel for the pavilion of the Ministry of Colonies. The French Society of Friends of the Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

Brian WOOD (born 1948) titled "Halbich" , dated 1993, signed and numbered 5/12. Ink and silver print on mylar. Size: 21.3x15.5 cm - frame: 45.5x39 cm Brian...

Beautiful etching on wove paper with a watermark, BFK Rives, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1900. Title: "ALMA MATER" engraved by Georges-Henri Lavalley (1868-1902), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1890 in intaglio, and dated 1899, after the painting by Madame Virginie DEMONT-BRETON (1859-1935). The etching and plate are in perfect condition, with only a few minor cuts along the lower, fringed edge of the sheet. Dimensions: "ALMA MATER" engraving: Sheet: 458 x 330 mm - Engraving: 243 x 170 mm - Engraving plate: 290 x 210 cm Engraved signature H.G. Lavalley below the engraving Engraved signature Virginie Demont Breton in the engraving, lower left & Blank stamp signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the engraving, lower left. Virginie Demont Breton, born in 1859, was the daughter of Jules Breton (1827-1906) and the niece of Émile Breton, both renowned painters. Her maternal grandfather was the Flemish painter and medievalist Félix de Vigne. She married the landscape painter Adrien Demont in 1880. In 1883, she received a gold medal at the Amsterdam World's Fair, and later at the World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900. The Société Française des Amis des Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

Beautiful etching on wove paper with a watermark, BFK Rives, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1920. Title "Frère et soeur" (brother and sister) engraved by Adolphe Grauk (1865-1945), after the painting by Aimé Nicolas Morot (1850-1913) The engraving is in very good condition with some fading to the right edge of the sheet which will not be visible when the engraving is framed Dimensions: "Frère et soeur" etching: Sheet: 460 x 332 mm - Engraving: 250 x 250 mm - Engraving plate: 320 x 280 mm Engraved signature: A. Grauk below the engraving on the right & Blank signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts under the engraving lower right. Adolphe Crauk, born in Valenciennes on May 24, 1865 and died on December 13, 1945, was a French engraver and painter. A pupil of David Joseph Desvachez in Valenciennes and then in Paris of Alexandre Cabanel, Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, and Jules Jacquet, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1887 onward, receiving an honorable mention in 1893, a 3rd-class medal in 1896, a travel grant in 1897, and a 1st-class medal in 1905, the year he was selected as an hors-competition. He also received an honorable mention at the 1900 World's Fair. Aimé Nicolas Morot, born on June 16, 1850 in Nancy and died on August 12, 1913 in Dinard, was a French painter and sculptor. He studied at the Nancy School of Drawing and Painting under Claude-Émile Thiéry and Charles Sellier before becoming, through a competitive examination, a student of the painter Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on May 31, 1869. He competed four times, unsuccessfully, for the Prix de Rome, before winning in 1873 with The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon. Upon marrying Suzanne Gérôme, he became the son-in-law of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme; he was a friend of the painter and sculptor Édouard Paul Mérite. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1880 to 1912, where he received a medal of honor for his first participation for The Good Samaritan. As an academic and professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, a frequent exhibitor at the Salon des artistes français in Paris, and a member of the painting jury, Aimé Morot was an influential figure in Parisian art circles, one of the 18 most influential members of the Institut de France. The Société Française des Amis des Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules, and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

Watercolor and ink depicting a woman with flowers standing near the window in front of a green drape over-looking the bay. The bay with a single lone boat, pastel structures in the ...

Watercolor and ink depicting women standing in a group near the boardwalk over-looking a marina with moored sailboats against blue tonal waters. White structures in the background ba...

Watercolor and ink depicting a woman to the right dressed in a blue striped fur, her eyes shaded in blue, and holding a large floral bouquet. Other figures, canopied structures and t...

Watercolor and ink depicting two women to the right, standing inside a room, with flowers in the foreground. The viewer is given a sight of the bay through the window with structures...