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François Boucher 1703-1770, French “The Triumph of Neptune” François Boucher (French; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century. He also painted several portraits of his patroness, Madame de Pompadour. A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne. Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars. Boucher died on 30 May 1770 in his native Paris. His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: "Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it." OM-300 CL102794-139640801-2
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Antonio Joli (Italian, 1700-1777) “Figures Amongst Classical Ruins” Oil on canvas 15 ¼ x 30 ½ inches (38.7 x 77.5 cm) Antonio Joli or Ioli (1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of vedute and capricci. Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Panini, and in the studios of the Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters. He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and Perugia. In 1732 he moved to Venice, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro San Samuele of the Grimani family. In 1742 he went to Dresden, and then to London (1744–48) and Madrid (1750–54).
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Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602) “Ecce Homo” Oil on copper 11 7/8 x 9 ½ inches (30 x 24.3 cm) CL102794-66 325502-2 @NB-1040 #20
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) “Mars and Venus and Philemon and Baucis” Oil on copper 9 x 11 ¾ inches (22.8 x 29.7 cm) CL102794-116 439101-2 @NB-1040 #22
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Antonio Allegri, il Coreggio “Venus, Cupid and a Satyr” Oil on Canvas 32” x 21 ½” (81.3 x 54.7 cm) CL102794-126 564601-2 @Albertson (5/19/03)
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Raphael (Raphael Sanzio da Urbino)(Italian, 1483-1520) “HeligaFamiljen” Oil on canvas 48.4 x 36.6 inches CL102794-32 351002-2 @AL 7/13
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Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805) Oil on canvas 21 x 17 ½ inches S71791-147 1102508-3 @AL 7/13
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Jean A. Watteau (French, 1684-1821) Women in Nature Oil on canvas 12 ¾ x 9 ½ inches S71791-173 142001-3 @AL 7/13
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens ‘Daniel in the Lion’s Den’ oil on canvas, unframed 30 ¼ x 37 in. (76.8 x 94 cm) CL102794-119 328901-2 @Albertson
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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen “Portrait of a Lady in Profile Holding A Book” Oil on panel 13 ¾” x 10 ½” (34.9 x 26.7 cm) S71791-86
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Francesco Di Simone da Santa Croce (1480-1548) “Joseph’s Escape from Potiphar’s Wife” From the collection of Pinero Migliorati Lugano, Taken from Old Church in Northern Italy (one of five). @NB-1040 #88
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David Teniers ‘The Palm Reader’ oil on panel 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (17.5 x 11.7 cm) CL102794-253 39520-2 @AC-NB
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David Teniers ‘Topers in a Tavern Interior’ oil on white metal 10 3/8 x 12 ½ in. CL102794-244 318702-2 Price:4,500 @AC-NB
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Carlo (Vavaliere) Maratta (Italian, 1625-1713) “Time Revealing Truth and Justice” Oil on canvas 53 x 43 ½ inches (134.6 x 110.5 cm) CL102794-128 3108801-2 NB-1040 #49
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Willem de Poorter (Dutch, b. 1608) “Pharaoh’s Army Drowning in the Red Sea” Oil on panel 20 x 32 ½ inches (50.7 x 82.5 cm) CL102794-108 123802-2 @NB-1040 #16
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Sir Anthony van Dyck ‘Portrait of the Marchesa Lomellini-Durazzo, three quarter length, in a black Coat and white Sleeves’ oil on canvas 33 5/8 x 24 in. 85.4 x 61 cm. CL102794-266 5115602-2 @AC-sAlbert.
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Henri Gascars ‘Portrait of a Lady, half length in a blue Dress with a white Chemise and a brown Wrap, holding a Spaniel' Bears inscription on a label on the reverse ‘Mrs. Cunliffe' oil on canvas, in a painted oval 27 x 19 ½ in. 68.6 x 49.5 cm. Henri Gascar (1635 – 1 Jan 1701) (also Gascard, Gascars) was a French-born portrait painter who achieved artistic success in England during the reign of Charles II. He painted many leading ladies at court, including several of the King's mistresses, before returning to Paris. He subsequently relocated to Rome, where he died in 1701. Gascar came to England about 1674, probably at the behest of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles II's favourite mistress. Gascar (or Gascard, as he seems to have spelt his name at first) was already known as a skillful portrait-painter; among the portraits already painted by him was that of Nicolas de Lafond, author of the "Gazette of Holland", painted in 1667, and engraved by Peter Lombart. The patronage of the Duchess of Portsmouth ensured Gascar a rapid success in England. His flamboyant style, contrasting with the stolid English approach, seemed to suit the frivolity of the time and he painted many of the ladies of Charles II's court. His lack of attention to detail in the likeness he made up for by the sumptuous draperies and tawdry adornments around the subject. For a short time he became fashionable, and is said to have amassed a fortune of over £10,000.
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Donato Creti “Studies of Heads” Pen and brown ink on paper 10 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches @NB-1040 #26 Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger. Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.
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Lodewyck de Vadder ‘The Temptation in the Wilderness’ oil on canvas 17 ¾ x 44 in. (45 x 111.8 cm) CL102794-177 351003-2 @AC-NB
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F. Hohle (early 20th Century) after Frans Hals. ‘Two singing Boys’ signed lower right F. Hohle cop and with the monogram lower left FG, oil on canvas 66.5 x 53 cm The original, on canvas, 66x52 cm, is in the Staatliche Kunstammlung Kassel. It was acquired by Landgraf Wilhelm VIII of Hessen in 1749 (see S.Slive, Frans Hals, 1974, II.fig. 44 and III.pp.15/16, no.23) CA102894-46 734506-3 @Albertson
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Francisco Bayeu Y Subias (1734-1795) “An Allegorical Figure of Music, a Study for a Pedentive” Oil on paper laid down on canvas 13 ¼ x 16 ½ inches Francisco Bayeu y Subias (9 March 1734 – 4 August 1795) was a Spanish painter, active in a Neoclassic style, whose main subjects were religious and historical themes. Born in Zaragoza, Aragon, he received a broad childhood education. He then moved to Madrid, winning a scholarship with the painting of the ‘’Tyranny of Gerion’’ to study in the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. The death of his parents and the care of his brothers forced him to return to Zaragoza, until he was recalled by Anton Raphael Mengs to help decorate the Royal Palace of Madrid. He served as court painter to King Charles III of Spain. He was named a professor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1765 and director in 1788. He painted in the Charterhouse of Aula Dei in Zaragoza. In 1767 he was named court painter for Charles III, king of Spain. He was involved in the decoration of various Royal palaces near Madrid. He helped provide designs for tapestries. He also painted for the College of San Ildefonso, the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation (Madrid), the Basilica of our Lady del Pilar in Zaragoza, and the cloister of the Cathedral of Toledo.