$2,495.00
René Zimmermann (1904-1991) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator. His many landscapes includes this remarkable blue-skied oil painting, "Noria de la Province de Murcia, Espagne". A noria is a machine powered by water and used to lift and move water for a village. Zimmermann's painting is beautiful with its energetic brushwork, sensuously applied in varying thicknesses and textures.
The canvas is framed in gilt wood frame. The artist signed the work at the bottom right and wrote the title of the painting on the reverse wood support.
Measurements:
Frame: 28" width, 24 1/2" height, 1" depth.
Canvas: 21 1/2" width, 18 1/2" height.
$3,600.00
Painted in the 19th Century during the Qing Dynasty era, this portrait honors 4 members of an esteemed Mandarin family. It is rendered beautifully in watercolors and gouaches on paper. Each seated figure is dressed in richly hued robes bearing...
$3,200.00
These naturalist illustrations of monkeys were made around 1812 by J.H. Jacob. They are hand-colored copperplate engravings. This set of 4 is beautifully matted in gilt-wood, ebonized frames.Dimensions:Frame: 22 in. x 18 in.Sight: 11.25 in. x 7.75 in.Condition notes:In very...
$695.00
A set of 4 black-and-white engravings from the book La Cuisine Classique by chefs Émile Bernard and Urbain Dubois. Published in the 19th Century, the illustrations depict elaborate cuisine and centerpieces. Two engravings come in a giltwood frame, while the...
$3,800.00
Set of 6 hand-colored engravings by the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). They come from Leclerc's encyclopedic series Histoire Naturelle. As the accompanying text on the back of the frames states, these engravings are French in origin but...
