“Diane and her suite”, 17th century

Oil on canvas depicting Diane and her suite.

Diana is originally a Latin goddess with power over procreation, childbirth, hunting and sovereignty. She quickly became the goddess of hunting and moon in Roman mythology.

Italy
XVII century

«Portrait of a diamond woman», Regency time

«Portrait of a diamond woman», XVIII s.
Oil on canvas depicting a woman dressed in the hurluberlu at the Anne-Marie d’Orléans (sister of Philip II of Orleans the Regent) decorated with pearls and holding a diamond.

Is the woman in our portrait the Regent’s favorite or perhaps the very personification of the Regency time.

Height with frame: 99 cm
Width with frame: 79 cm
France
Period: XVIII century, Regency

Pair of parrots lamps, Napoleon III period

Pair of lamps in the shape of parrots with floral and vegetable motifs in polychrome enamelled biscuit mounted on bases in gilded bronze chiseled, in the taste of Meissen, new lampshades in wild silk lined with water green color and fringe.

France,

Napoleon III period, 19th century

“Child with a dog”, 18th century

Court portrait of a child accompanied by a dog.
The portrait of a child became more popular in the second part of the 18th centuries; in the 17th centuries it was still reserved for princes of blood.