French 19th - 20th century
Joseph Bail
"Cats Playing around a Mirror"
on canvas: 45,5 x 37,5 cm
Hippolyte Camille Delpy
"Pêcheur au soleil couchant"
on canvas: 57 x 91 cm
Henri Pailler
"Crozant, Vallée de la Creuse"
on canvas: 62 x 81 cm
Georges Lemmen
"Nu au coussin blue"
on board: 55 x 67 cm;
Henri Charles Manguin
"La Flotte"
watercolour over pencil: 31 x 49 cm
F. Clairval
Various colourful roses in a glass vase
on board: 67 x 49 cm;
Hubert-Denis Etcheverry
"Une Consultation"
on canvas: 65,5 x 80,5 cm;
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker
"Jeune femme bretonne"
pastel on paper: 46 x 30,5 cm;
Louis Tauzin
"Bas Meudon"
on canvas: 56 x 38 cm;
Arthur Dupagne
"Head of an African Child"
bronze, black patina, on a marble soccle: height 30 cm;
Dietz Edzard
"Various flowers in a vase"
on canvas on board: 29 x 23,5 cm;
Paul-Désiré Trouillebert
"Pushing a boat on the river"
on canvas: 22,5 x 27,5 cm;
Léon Victor Dupré
"Rural landscape with cows watering "
on canvas: 27,5 x 36,5 cm;
Charles Camoin
"Au Bois de Boulogne, Lac St. James, printemps 1910"
on canvas: 81 x 100 cm
Médard Verburgh
"Barques de pêche au port Ostende"
on canvas: 65 x 80 cm;
Jean Dufy
Flowers in a vase
watercolour: 64 x 48 cm
Johan Barthold Jongkind
"L'Eglise de Blandin, Isère"
watercolour, black chalk and ink: 20 x 35 cm;
Defendi Semeghini
"Two ladies picking flowers on a sunny hill"
on canvas: 25 x 39,5 cm;
Joseph Bail
Maids polishing copper and silverware
on canvas: 72 x 58,5 cm
Charles Hug
Flowers in a vase and pieces of melon
on canvas: 63,5 x 54,5 cm
Charles François Daubigny
"L'Etang de Gylieu"
on panel: 38 x 67 cm
French 19th - 20th century
In the 19th century, landscape painting became an important genre. Artists were seeking reality and political liberalism thus gaining self-confidence and positivism in their work.
The essence of the Barbizon school, haven to well-known painters during the 1840s just south of Paris, was the urge to grasp nature by working 'en-plein-air' in preference to dark studios and academic studies. Working outdoors permitted light to play a major role and supported a more realistic way of painting.