“Portrait of a gentleman”, vers 1700

Oil on canvas, portrait of a gentleman,

Remarkable painting for lovers of old fabrics, and provocative looks, to look at it is to plunge into a world where everything is only “luxury, calm and pleasure”.

Circa 1700,

Italy

“Consolation” 18th century, french school

“Consolation”, oil on canvas (on its original canvas) depicting children who come to console their father who thinks of his young missing wife, against a landscape background.

18th century

French school

 

“Portrait of a girl”, dated 1884

Oval portrait of young Louise Guesde, daughter of Jules Guesde (1845-1922), by Spanish painter Fernando Tirado, trained in the Beaux-Arts School of Sevilla, and by painters Cano in Spain and Gérôme in Paris, France. Tirado also exhibited his work in the famous Salon parisien, between 1879 and 1884.

Portrait is signed and dated 1884.

Cephalus and Procris

Oil on Canvas
18 th. C.
France

Cephalus was married to Procris, a daughter of Erechtheus, an ancient founding-figure of Athens. The goddess of dawn, Eos, fell in love with him and kidnapped Cephalus when he was hunting.