All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1442045 (stock #431)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Julian Crump, Philadelphia African American Outsider artist. Cat looking at birds in a tree top from the cottage window, oil acrylic, and wood and fabric curtains. Measuring 22 x 29“ Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1970 item #1469807 (stock #xxx)
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All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1422225 (stock #JB05498)
A small watercolor on paper within an oval, featuring a short vase filled with wildflowers, the piece measuring 8" by 7" as framed; at the lower portion in pencil is an inscription in German: "Die Heimat Blumen Grussen Dich", and "Plauen Mai 1920". This translates roughly as "the flowers of home/homeland greet you". "Heimat" evidently is a German word with no clear translation into English...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1379527 (stock #TBD00254)
A well painted oil on board landscape of green fields in the foreground and a tan one in the distance with a group of trees on the left under a cloudy blue sky. The frame is a molded gilt frame. It is a good size; 19 inches tall by 21 ½ inches wide. With frame it is 26 ½ inches by 24 inches.

Condition is excellent with a recent cleaning and new frame.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 2000 item #1451057
FOR SALE: A superb Original Thai Classical Tempera Painting depicting "BENEVOLANCE OF THE LORD BUDDHA", by reknown Thai Artist CHAWAT BUAPHAN. Signed and dated 13.6.2540 (Buddhist Year), by the artist. Size: height 70 cm x width 50 cm unframed. Location: Maerim/Chiangmai,Thailand.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1459917 (stock #2457)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1837 VR item #1386260
what pdx
$275.00
"William Hogarth" The March to Finchley The Works of William Hogarth" as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All William Hogarth prints appearing after this date are copies of these original graphic works of art. Heath edition 1822 An original copperplate engraving — over 195 years old. Sheet size: approx...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1420703 (stock #JB05275)
A refined old drawing titled "Caterskill Clove" dated Oct. 7, 1859, the subject a famed rocky gorge in the eastern part of the Catskill mountains of New York State (google "Catskill Clove" for full information on this renowned scenic area). The work is apparently unsigned. There are any number of listed artists of the Hudson River School who could have created the drawing; Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Hart, Asher Durand and many others of note painted in the area...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1468509
David Anthony
$24,995.00
Joseph Harry Anderson (1906-1996) produced some of the most memorable commercial art of the mid 20th century, capturing the nostalgic mood of a mythical and bygone America...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1419555 (stock #JB02310)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) not many in color, this is a fine image in crayon on paper, 11 1/4" by 15" in the oak frame without mat, signed at lower left by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1900 item #677784
Superb 19th century Mexican folk retablo on tin depicting Christ crucified, yet living. The subject is sometimes referred to as "La Vindimia Mistica", and sometimes as "El Varon Eucaristo de Dolores". Blood flows from Jesus' wounds into a chalice and basin as a reminder that Christ suffers daily for the viewer's sins. Seven lambs, representing the seven sacraments of the Catholic church surround the fountain...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1434989 (stock #a1733)
A fine watercolor on natural wafer, signed lower left by Hyacinthe Mercier and dated 1813. The sitter is an attractive young woman posed in front of a column with a landscape featuring a church in the background. Presented in the original frame.

No condition issues, with a diameter of 2 3/4" and a framed size of 5 1/2" by 5 1/4".

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Mlle Hyacinth Mercier worked as a miniaturist in Paris, living at 27 rue Neuve Saint Rochet. She exhibited at the Salon in 1808 and 1810...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1144334
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, "Frio," Etching, aquatint and drypoint, image size 7 1/2 x 12 inches, 4th state, "Louis Legrand" pencil and plate signed l.r., Arwas A74.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1900 item #1423170 (stock #JB04862)
Lithograph print "The Tyresmith", 1890, featuring a Chelsea (London) wheelwright's shop, by JAMES ABBOTT McNEIL WHISTLER (1834-1903). Forges and smithies are said to have been a lifelong favorite subject of Whistler. My research online suggests that this example is one of the 500 to 1000 examples printed from a transfer stone, to be published in The Whirlwind 2, no. 20, issue of November 15, 1890...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #948843
Hermine David, French, 1886-1971, etching, "Dockside, Seine", image size: 9 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches, c. 1930, pencil signed lower right
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1950 item #1442038 (stock #376)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,800.00
Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life works, travel sketches, political satire, fairy tales drawn for his daughter, characters, with Sor Juana, Don Quixote, and Rembrandt being predominant.   His techniques include oil on linen, prepared by him in his studio with rabbit glue, linseed oil, and tempera; engravings on copper or zinc using burin, dry point, etching, or soft ground;...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1432591
An oil on rough side of the Masonite painting of a windmill in a landscape with a foreground cow, painted in a skilled impressionist hand, and signed by the artist, one PENNY SMITH, at lower left. The work was probably painted in the 1950's, judging from the signature and style/materials. I do not see a listing for a Penny Smith, but she was trained. Measurements are 14" by 12" and the work is unframed...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1421936 (stock #JB04407)
**NOT PRINTS**----A PAIR of fabulous original antique botanical drawings or paintings as they might be described, in watercolor, each 12" by 15 1/2" (and 19" by 25" as identically framed), both bearing old 1958 framing labels from the legendary Goodspeed's Book Shop on Beacon Hill in Boston. These drawings, found in Connecticut, are of the first half of the 19th century. The fruits depicted are the Large Jambu, otherwise commonly known as the Rose Apple; and the Rambutan (from the Malay "rambu...