French Paintings

This refined 18th-century French painting on canvas, created circa 1760, captures the charm of a Rococo pastoral courtship scene. The richly colored composition depicts a young sheph...

The beautiful enamel plaque was crafted in Limoges, a town in northern France. Limoges has long been associated with the production of high quality enamel wares. While to begin with, in the 12th Century, the town was famous for its applied enamel pieces, religious icons, for example, which were crafted in metal with champlevé enamel ornament, Limoges later, in the 15th century, began to paint onto enamel, creating plaques, plates and ewers, which were both religious and secular in character. These local techniques were revived in the mid-19th century, when items like this enamel portrait painting were produced. This enamel portrait is a half-length depiction of a young woman. While her body is faced slightly to the side, she turns her head to look out directly at the viewer. The woman wears a fine, light pink gown...

18th century, French School. Portrait of Louis XV of France and queen consort Maria Leszczynska (2) Pastel on paper, 47 x 60 cm With frame 5...

Painting by Madeleine Arbus A mysterious nature Morte of the "Neue Sachlickeit" movement featuring a glass and candlestick by Madeleine Arbus, the daughter of Andre Arbus. ...

Oil on canvas signed F.MOLINA lower-left, located in Paris on 5 June 1925. Very beautiful, almost Fauvist atmosphere, portraying two nude women lying on a bed, a richly embroidered c...

Exceptional painting "Saint Jean Cap Ferrat" signed by F. Poufay Oil on canvas, 55/65 cm. Vivid colors and live motions. France, circa 1930.

This is a lovely J. Gowan landscape oil on canvas presented in a wide champagne gold colored wood frame. He is a Californian artist from the 1950's with a vivid stroke for naturalist...

This is a lovely J. Gowan landscape oil on canvas presented in a wide champagne gold colored wood frame. He is a Californian artist from the 1950's with a vivid stroke for naturalist...

Set of six beautiful hand-painted miniature portraits with mother of pearl details, having bronze framing and velvet cover in the back. Three of the six are signed. Made in France, l...

Very nice painting showing an old African woman by Virginie Gaillet.

Antique 19th Century French Oil On Canvas Painting, "La Chaumière à Fontainebleau" by Barbizon Artist Leon Richet (1847-1907). This lovely pastoral painting is of a thatched cottage...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Mixed media on paper. Abstract composition. Dated 1980. In excellent condition. Slightly yellowed. Dimensions: 50.0 cm x 65.0 cm.

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Mixed media on paper. Abstract composition. Approximately from the 1980s. In excellent condition. Slightly yellowed. Dimensions: 50.0 cm x 65...

Marie De Garay (France, 1861-1953) "Dance Lesson" original oil painting, circa 1890 Fine original oil painting by listed French Artist Marie De Garay d...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Mixed media on paper. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. Dated 1980. In perfect condition. Dimensions: 50.0 cm x 65.0 cm.

Mid-19th century signed portrait made of oil on canvas, representing a woman or lady form the middle class bourgeoisie. The subject is wearing green clothing with a white collar and ...

French achool 18th century "Battle". 46cm x 67cm. Oil on canvas. Good condition.

Alfons Verheyen, (1903-1990) "la mort du poète", circa 1930.

This antique trumeau, carved in the manner of Louis XVI, is oil-painted with a scene of French pastoral life in the top third, above the mirror. A barefoot French country-girl leans ...

Painted canvas representing an Art Deco style woman, on her profile with hair rolled up in bun and wearing long earings. She wears a crossed dress adorned with gold abstract motifs. ...

DIMENSIONS: Height: 16.25 inches Width: 13.5 inches Depth: 2.25 inches Frame width: 2.5 inches ABOUT MODEL Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945) was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expression of this art form during that time. López Júlvez was the daughter of Spanish immigrants in Argentina, where her father had a fabric business. While living there, two of her siblings died in a scarlet fever epidemic. Consequently, she was brought to the north coast of Spain in 1901, where she began to learn Spanish regional dances. When she was only four years old, she started learning flamenco from Julia Castelao. Her first public performance was at the age of eight at the Teatro-Circo de San Sebastián, in the Basque Country. She chose the name "La Argentinita" in deference to the famous flamenco dancer Antonia Mercé (La Argentina). After travelling throughout Spain as a child prodigy, she settled in Madrid to perform at Teatro La Latina, Teatro de la Comedia, Teatro de La Princesa, Teatro Apolo and Teatro Príncipe Alfonso. Her success led her to tour in Barcelona, Portugal and Paris, and then Latin America. In the early 1920s, she returned to Spain, where she worked in Madrid. Among her early performances was the 1920 premiere of Federico García Lorca's musical play El maleficio de la mariposa as "the Butterfly". She announced her retirement in 1926, but would quickly return to the show business as part of the artistic renewal that led her to the Generation of ‘27, in which she combined flamenco, tango, bulerías and boleros. She danced to the compositions of Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Maurice Ravel. She helped in the development of Ballet Español. Adapting pieces to popular tradition, she toured Europe, triumphing in Paris and Berlin and participating in the artistic movements of that time along with Spanish poets such as Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Edgar Neville and Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Sánchez Mejías, an intellectual and bullfighter, was a married man and her lover. La Argentinita retired a second time to maintain her clandestine relationship with him. However, she would return to the stage with the aid of Sánchez Mejías, who participated in the search and employment of interpreters for her subsequent performances. In 1931, López Júlvez and García Lorca recorded five gramophone slate records, which were accompanied by García Lorca's piano. The selection of songs was prepared, adapted and titled Colección de Canciones Populares Españolas by García Lorca. Among the ten songs were "Los cuatro muleros", "Zorongo gitano", "Anda Jaleo" and "En el Café de Chinitas". With the beginning of the Second Spanish Republic, López Júlvez formed her own ballet company called Bailes Españoles de la Argentinita together with her sister, Pilar López Júlvez, and García Lorca. López Júlvez staged several flamenco theatrical shows, including an adaption of Falla's El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) in 1933, and Las Calles de Cádiz (The Streets of Cadiz) in 1933 and 1940.[7] She travelled through Spain and Paris, where she was recognized as one of the most important flamenco artists of her time. Her company included the flamenco figures Juana la Macarrona, La Malena, Fernanda Antúnez, Rafael Ortega and Antonio de Triana, who was her first dancing partner until the 1940s. At the end of her tour around Spain, her lover Sánchez Mejías was gored to death in 1934 in the Manzanares bullring. She sought refuge in her work and moved to Buenos Aires to dance at the Teatro Colón; from there she embarked on a long American tour. In 1936 she achieved success in New York. Afterwards, she returned to Spain but was forced to flee the country shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. She travelled through Morocco, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA, where she remained in exile in New York. From then until her death in 1945, she developed her career and became one of the biggest stars of international dance, and even participated in movies. In 1943, she presented the flamenco troupe El Café de Chinitas at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, with her own choreography, texts by García Lorca, scenery by Salvador Dalí and the orchestra directed by José Iturbi. In addition, she performed at the Washington DC Watergate complex with her sister. On May 28, 1945, she gave her last performance at the Metropolitan of the orchestral work El Capricho Español, composed in 1887 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and based on Spanish melodies. At the end of the event, she had to be admitted to a hospital, where she died on September 24 from a tumor in her abdomen. She did not want to have it operated on because she did not wish to abandon dancing. Her body was repatriated to Spain in December and buried in the Spanish capital. That same year, the company of Bailes Españoles de la Argentinita was dissolved. Among the honors she received after her death was a plaque consecrated at the Metropolitan Opera House, positioned among the medals of Alfonso X El Sabio and La Orden de Isabel la Católica to honor her merits in the field of culture. ABOUT ARTIST Emmanuel Fougerat (French, 1869 – 1958) was a renowned French painter, museum curator and art historian. A former student of the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes, Fougerat studied in the studio of Albert Maignan and that of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was appointed director of the Nantes School of Fine Arts and was also the founder and curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in the same city. Emmanuel Fougerat was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1912. In 1923, he was placed on temporary leave from the French State in order to carry out a mandate as director of fine arts education in the Province of Quebec, Canada; where he served as an art teacher and director of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1923 to 1925. Emmanuel Fougerat’s paintings are in the following public collections: • Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, France. • Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France. • Rennes Town Hall: permanent decorations. • Museum of Fine Arts of Saint-Nazaire (destroyed in 1944), France • National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Canada. Emmanuel Fougerat is also the author of works on several French painters, including Albert Besnard, Paul Baudry...

Signed en verso B. Solotareff, Lautenberg. Original period frame, made personally by the artist. Dimensions (without frame): Height 16” Width 12 ½”. Dimensions (with frame...

Jean Da Milano (1928-2017), blue sphere composition, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated lower right, N°1406-77, n°20 1977, France. Measures: Height 92 cm - Width 73 cm Jean Da Milano ...

Nude Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scarf, Maurice Ehlinger, Circa 1940. We present a rare and refined work by a master portraitist of the 20th century. Details of the Artwork: ...

Dive into the artistic world of Antonio Collado Gonzalez, a master of sensitive and intimate portraits, with this painting depicting a little boy. This work highlights the artist's...

Jean Da Milano (1928-2017), Solar composition, Mixed media on paper, Signed lower left, N°828-74, n°496 1974, France. Measures : Height 65 cm, Width 50cm. Jean Da Milano is an ab...

Oil on panel, "Hiker with a Pipe," Michel Jamar, France, circa 1930-1940 We are pleased to present this oil on panel, a work by the renowned French artist Michel Jamar (1911-1997). ...

A very pieceful and rustic painting "Martigues" by Henri Olive Des Martigues, 1898-1980 Oil on canvas signed down at right, circa 1950 26.5 x 3...

Magnificent and large painting, oil on canvas, depicting a wild boar fight in the middle of a snowy forest at sunset. It is signed and dated lower right "J. Bardin 1948", after the o...

Cubist portrait with very strong expression by French artist Emmanuel Godefroy. Mixed technique, black stone, charcoal and glycero paint on paper, fixed on a wooden panel with frame....

Ayline Olukman, French artist, born 1981 "The Bridge, NYC", mixed media. New York skyline. Signed and dated 2009 on the back. In perfect condition. Dimensions: W 89 cm x H 116 cm.

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Gouache on canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. 1988. Perfect condition. Exhibited at "La Galerie" 67 rue Saint André des Arts, Pari...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Gouache on canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. From the 1980s. Perfect condition. Exhibited at "La Galerie" 67 rue Saint André des ...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Gouache on paper mounted on canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. From the 1980s. Signed. In excellent condition. Exhibited at "La Ga...

Celisson, French artist. "Futurist Architecture". Futuristic landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1962. Perfect condition. Dimensions: W 61.0 cm x H 72.0 cm.

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. From the 1980s. In perfect condition. Exhibited at "La Galerie" 67 rue Saint André des A...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Oil on two-piece canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. 1988. In perfect condition. Signed on the front and back. Exhibited at "La Gal...

Pair of French Restauration style rectangular reverse glass paintings representing baskets of flowers on a white background, one of peonies one of roses. The whole ensemble has a fir...

Talking to rocks 2 - Elodie Huré Oil on canvas 70x70cm 2020. Visual artist, videographer and collagist, also trained at the theater school, Elodie Huré expresses herself ...

Very large format for this magnificent still life entitled "Copper, Poppies, Wheat, Bread and Fruit". Oil on canvas painted by the French artist Marie-Madeleine de RASKY. This painti...

Set of 6 Biedermeier paintings steel engravings, circa 1820 Steel engraving behind glass with different scenes. Biedermeier cherry tree frame Histo...

This vibrant 20th-century French painting captures a lively rural scene, presenting a glimpse into pastoral life with an energetic and colorful flair. The artwork features farmers en...

This evocative 20th Century French painting captures the rich, textured essence of a still life. Nestled in an ornate gilt frame that complements its e...

19th century oil on canvas painting signed on the bottom left corner "P. Deligny", representing still life, grapes and peach basket , and a pitcher. The frame is in its original stat...

abstract painting by the Grenoblois painter Jacques de Feline in his last period. Abstract and lyrical work, Jacques' wife was a French poet who had a lot of influence on his way of ...

Superb and large framed canvas/painting depicting an autumn landscape: we see a walk / towpath in the forest, lined with trees losing their leaves, and along a stream. The trees on t...

Zingard, French artist. Flowers in a vase. Oil on wooden panel. 1995. Signed. In excellent condition. Dimensions: W 25 x H 34 cm.

Very large oil on canvas depicting Cupid asleep, with probably Psyche looking on. An inscription in the lower right, difficult to read, speaks of Psyche and her two sisters (the two ...

Antique 19th century French oil on canvas landscape painting, signed "Piere-Leon Girard," salon debut 1848.

Oil on canvas by Henri Hecht MAÏK (1922-1993). “Underwater Landscape”. sign and date lower right “MAÏK 56”. Framed with a natural oak and gilded brass...

Nicolas Issaiev (a/k/a Nikolai Alexandrovich Isaev, Russian-French, 1891-1977) was a painter, graphic artist, set designer, illustrator. In the early 1900s he studied in art scho...

A charming French 18th-century oil-on-canvas portrait of a pharmacist named Petrus Chevallier. Signed “Davila” verso, where it also dated “20 - 09 - 1753" and the title “Petrus Cheva...

Watercolor & ink depicting a prominent floral bouquet in a blue and white vase on a striped surface. The vase over-looks blue tonal waters and tan structures across the way. Presente...

Watercolor and ink depicting a harlequin and a woman to the right of a coastal landscape. The woman with poignant eyes and a blue shaded face. They are standing in front of a lattice...

Watercolor and ink depicting three women with soulful and prominent eyes, with their heads downcast, presumably prositutes, in a street scene. Other figures in the background in fron...

Watercolor and ink depicting two women standing to the right in a room setting with blue drapes in the background, one is holding flowers and both with forlorn expressions. The blue ...

Watercolor and ink depicting a portrait of a harlequin and a woman wrapped in fur. The harlequin standing with his arms crossed in red attire. The woman with a blue hat and having pr...

This is a large oil-on-canvas artwork with a distinctly mid-century French aesthetic. The composition emphasises earthy tones, primarily muted greys with subtle textures that create ...

19th century French oil on wood orientalist painting with frame. Dimensions with frame: 47 x 34 x 5.

A fine 18th century oil on canvas "Joseph and Potiphar's wife" This large and impressive painting depicting Joseph rebuffing Potiphar's Wife's advances. An act which stripped him of ...