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Jules Renard - Deux hommes libres - 1867

Coloured lithograph by Jules Renard (Draner) for the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris. It is the seventh illustration from a collection of fourteen, published by printers Dasacq & Cie, Éditeu...

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French School - Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a French woman from the Louis Philippe period. She is wearing a brown taffeta dress with a pink shawl. Noteworthy are her double pearl necklace and long gold earrings. Original Empire s...

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French School - River Barge - Late 19th Century

Lovely small format oil on canvas landscape painting. A calm before the storm scene on a river. Barely visible on the left, a cabin on the edge of a small bay and two docked boats.  Artist: Unknown...

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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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