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Attributed to Paul Chabas (French, 1869-1937) September Morning Oil on canvas 15 x 20 in. (38 x 51 cm)
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Italian School Late 19th Century In the Garden Pastel on canvas 29” x 22” (73.6 x 55.9 cm)
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Gabriel Metsu ‘The Game Seller’ oil on panel 19 x 16 in. (48.3 x 40.7 cm) CL102794-239 654401-2 @AC-NB
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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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Hippolyte Petitjean (French, 1854-1929) “Femmes dans le foret” Oil on canvas 39 ½” x 25 7/8” Signed and dated bottom left Painted in 1897 PROVENANCE: Estate of D. Gensburg, LA
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Marc Chagall (French, 1887-1985) “Le peintre et la crucifixion” pastel and gouache on paper 20”x 12.5” Executed in 1968 Signed lower left COA by Comite Chagall
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J. Fleming, circa 18 ‘Scottish Seascape' Plaque on fra Oil on wo 14¾ x 20 John Fleming (1792-1845) was a Scottish landscape painter who lived and worked in Greenock. He is best known for the series of views he painted for Swan's Lakes of Scotland, published at Glasgow in 1834. Fleming was born in about 1792, and apprenticed to a housepainter at the age of fourteen. He is thought to have had some contact with the portrait painter James Saxon before spending some time in London, where he worked as a housepainter and took the opportunity to the study paintings in galleries there. As a landscapist, Fleming specialized in small paintings of Scottish scenery, which became widely known through a series of collaborations with the Glasgow engraver and publisher Joseph Swan. He first worked with Swan in 1828 on a publication entitled Select Views of Glasgow and its environs, to which the Glasgow artist John Knox also contributed. Fleming and Swan followed this with Select Views on the Clyde (1830) and Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland (1834). The last of these, consisting of a total of 48 plates, issued in 16 parts, proved popular enough to justify the publication of further editions in 1836 and 1839.
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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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(Charles) Chester Harding 1792-1866 “Portrait of Ann McChait” Oil on canvas 29” x 24” AC7200 AC12000 @AC-NB
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Elizabeth M. Yates b. 1883, Landscape Scene Oil on wood 9 ¼” x 5 ½” @NB
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Henri Lebasque (French, 1865-1937) “Les deus Baigneuses près de la Plage” Oil on canvas 21 1/8”x 30” Signed lower right COA by V. Lebasque
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Jean Jacques Henner (French, 1829-1905) A Young Girl with Red Cape Signed ‘JHENNER’ lower left Oil on canvas 18 ¼ x 12 ¾ in. (46.4 x 32.4 cm)
