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Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (attributed) - Diana and Cupid - Circa 1850

Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, (born 1808, Bordeaux, France- died November 18, 1876, Menton), French painter and lithographer of the group of landscape painters known as the Barbizon school who ...

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18th Century German School - Portrait Of A Nobleman

Rare portrait depicting an unidentified German nobleman wearing a breastplate below his red dress coat. Breastplates were worn over the torso to protect it from injury, as an item of religious sign...

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French School - Portrait of a Man - Circa 1830

Portrait of a man, possibly a merchant from Nantes. Part of a pair of husband and wife portraits. Artist: Unknown (Unsigned).Medium: Oil on canvas.Condition: Excellent condition.Dimensions: 65 x 54...

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French School - Portrait of a Woman - Circa 1830

Portrait of the wife of a merchant from Nantes. Part of a pair of husband and wife portraits. French School. Artist: Unknown (Unsigned).Medium: Oil on canvas.Condition: Excellent condition.Dimensio...

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Louis Desplaces - Mythological Engraving - "Aqua", 1718

Water (The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite). Forth plate in a four-plate series entitled “The Four Elements” by Louis de Boullogne. Image analysis: Amphitrite is removed by force by Neptune and d...

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Louis Desplaces - Mythological Engraving - “Ignis” - 1717

Fire, from a series of four plates entitled: “The Four Elements”, after Louis de Boullogne. Image Analysis: Venus, seated on a cloud and accompanied by Cupid and the Graces, appears before Vulcan, ...

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A. Christophe - The Washerwomen - Circa 1870

Charming landscape representing three washerwomen on the river shore in the late afternoon. The work with colours, light and the reflection of the wood on the river’s calm surface is truly remarkab...

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Josef Plank - Portrait of a Peasant - Circa 1890

This magnificent portrait represents a model dressed in the fashion of a 17th century European peasant, with a light grey buttoned linen cape, a wide white collar and white tasselled cords. He also...

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Barbizon School - Peasant Women at the River’s Edge - Circa 1870

Barbizon School inspired landscape, painted around 1870, and reminiscent in subject and style to the romantic works of Camille Carot. It depicts two peasant women standing next to a wooded path nea...

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