“Family portrait”, 19th century

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.

Stern figure for the rear castle

Stern figure for the rear castle of a Spanish galleon, in polychrome wood representing a bust of allegorical sculpture crowned with flowers and fruits, symbol of abundance.

XVII century
Spain

“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

 

Terracotta “Turquerie”,18th century

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