Oil on canvas depicting Sainte Barbara, on its original canvas, original gilded wooden frame.
XVII century,
Italy.
Oil on canvas, genre scene. It is probably about Suzanne Simonin, the narrator of Denis Diderot’s memoir “La Religieuse”, which is an ode to the freedom to choose one’s destiny…
18th century.
Italian school, entourage of Giuseppe Bonito.
Oak wood sculpture of the child Saint Luke holding a calf on his knees.
Circa 1800,
Flanders?
Oil on canvas, family portrait.
In the middle of the 19th century, the bourgeoisie, actor and beneficiary of the industrial revolution, wanted to leave to posterity the image of its economic and social success. Failing to belong to a noble line, she celebrates the family, keystone of this new bourgeois model. The challenge is then to create an image for yourself at the same time as to build a genealogy, a historical legitimacy…
19th century,
France.
Bust of a fauness after Clodion (1738-1814), in marble.
XIX century,
France.
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
Virgin in polychrome carved wood.
18th century,
Naples, Italy.
Oil on canvas “portrait of a woman with an ermine coat”,
Signed: Edward, dated: 1855
“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
Pair of terracotta women, dressed in an oriental, “turquerie” way.
Differences of pose, outfit, hair-dress and faces
Grey painting probably from the 19th century
End of the 18th century
France or Italie