All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1900 item #1445779 (stock #1887)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,100.00
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour. Carrier-Belleuse was born on 12 June 1824 at Anizy-le-Château, Aisne, France. He began his training as a goldsmith's apprentice.[1] Carrier-Belleuse was a student of David d'Angers and briefly studied at the École des Beaux-Arts...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Relief : Pre 1900 item #1445774 (stock #1886)
Beautiful Bronze roundel of Franz Liszt by artist Ellen Rankin (Cropp) dated 1891 measuring 12” diameter Ellen Rankin Copp (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1901), also called Ellen or Helen Houser Rankin, was an American sculptor. Her works were featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1445710 (stock #10866)
Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

Old Willow in Winter, Anacostia

Oil-on-artist board, signed lower right and titled on reverse

Painting: 11” 14”
Frame: 17” x 20”

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl ...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1445688 (stock #1882)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
Porcelain measuring 9 inches tall, 8 inches wide, and 5 inches deep. Karl Gerhardt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 7, 1853.[1] He attended Phillips School in Boston. By 1870 he was apprenticed to a house painter in Chicopee, Massachusetts, where he later became a machinist at Ames Foundry. He showed considerable talent in mechanics, and later became a designer of machinery at Hartford, Connecticut.[2] In 1874, he went to California...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445675 (stock #1736)
Buddha Sculpture Info & Price Pending, Chinese
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Contemporary item #1445674 (stock #1870)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
Saarinen's model 61 "Grasshopper " chair was the first lounge chair he designed for Knoll in 1946. Responding to what he saw as the relaxed posture a sitter desires, he sought to support the seat, back, shoulders, and head in an organized way. His desire to simplify a form to its fewest elements resulted in the arms and legs all being connected and formed of laminated birch. This is a rare prototype example in original condition that as its original upholstery Dimensions Height: 34.75 in...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1960 item #1445668
I offer this work on paper, 19" by 25" inside the mat, 26 1/2" by 33" framed in simple black frame (to be shipped without glass), as a print of some kind by the important Swiss modern artist HANS ERNI (1909-2015). Signed in the plate at lower right and dated there "60", this would appear to be a monotype, or possibly a lithograph, with hand coloring added. Several examples are to be seen in the auction record, and they are I believe mistakenly described as gouache, original, unique works...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 2000 item #1445610
A small, beautifully crafted oil on canvasboard landscape titled on reverse "Abandoned Farm Santa Clara River", dated June 1999, signed at lower right and again on the reverse, and with artist's business card affixed as well. The painting measures 8" by 10" and 11 1/2" by 13 1/2" in wood frame with liner. Condition is excellent. The artist was born in Pennsylvania and has been in Southern California for most of his life, with much of his subject matter taken from the Oxnard and Ventura area...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1980 item #1445562
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$245.00
Hand signed, Title No 690 14/45 limited edition serigraph print in silver and grey one of his more unique colors . The graphic has some scuffs or printing flaws and marks selling as is see images ask for more if you need framed a matt board would cover most all flaws. Size 27.25" by 23" listed Japanese/American artist, Takeshi kawashima Painter, sculptor and print-maker Takeshi kawashima lived and worked in New York City since 1963...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1445560
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$650.00
1972 Original William Weege Erotic nude 3 way Flocked silk screen and glitter 1/1. Stitched cloth paper with flocking stitching . As made condition , the back "1st Variation 22nd Ed Weege 72 ". size 11.25" 8.8"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1445486 (stock #1866)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
Ohio River branch Artist, school of Hudson river school painters, on signs beautiful landscape with Carl’s measuring 30 x 50“ circa 1860 in its original Gilded Frame. Beautiful fresh colors.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1445422 (stock #1865)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
A 1950s Modernist painting done in the Abstract Style that was very contemporary at the time beautifully done in oil, still life with striped cloth measures 24 x 20 an artist Panel Canvas see also #1250 for a very similar work by another artist that was their friend
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445411 (stock #1862)
Painting on silk Indian Elephant measuring 39x49 inches in an antique gilded frame, Early 20th Century Vintage
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1910 item #1445407 (stock #1856)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
American F. Livingstone Artist Charcoal Portrait of General Pershing 29x24 John Joseph Pershing GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), nicknamed "Black Jack", was a senior United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18. In addition to leading the A.E.F...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1990 item #1445356 (stock #1860)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space…. Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445350 (stock #1859)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,200.00
See that young Washington DC Artist dated 1970, little girl with doll, Oil on canvas Abstract
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1445347 (stock #1858)
American minimalist artist Jacqui McBride doing painter known for her beautiful oils with minimalist colors and realistic scenes this work is a oil on canvas sunset over Newport measuring, pupil of renowned Romantic painter John Court. 6 x 12“
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1445333 (stock #1741)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
From our African Collection: An Old Base with Yoruba Spiritual Figure, the base measures 12" across x 30" h. Circa 1940. "The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá) are an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million people in Africa...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445330 (stock #1748)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
From our African Collection: A Nigerian Eket Figure, circa 1950...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445328 (stock #1747)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,875.00
From our African Collection: A Luba (Lubua) figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7 x 27"h. "The Lulua tribes people, also known as Bena Lulua, migrated from western Africa during the 18th century and settled in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). They number 300,000 and live in small regional chiefdoms and in times of crisis elect a single common leader. The role of the village chief is to ensure juridical, political and social cohesion. In c...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445315 (stock #1746)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
From our African Collection: A Nkondi nail figure from Congo, circa 1950. 12" x 24" h. Nkondi (plural varies minkondi, zinkondi, or ninkondi)are mystical statuettes made by the Kongo people of the Congo region. Nkondi are a subclass of minkisi that are considered aggressive. The name nkondi derives from the verb -konda, meaning "to hunt" and thus nkondi means "hunter" because they can hunt down and attack wrong-doers, witches, or enemies. Nkondi with nails were made at least as early as ...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445311 (stock #1745)
From our African Collection: An Ibibio Movable Jaw Mask from southeastern Nigeria. Ibibio, people of southeastern Nigeria, mainly in the Cross River state. They speak dialects of Efik-Ibibio, a language now grouped within the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Ibibio comprise the following major divisions: Efik, Northern (Enyong), Southern (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and Eastern (the Ibibio proper). Mainly rainforest cultivators of yams, taro, and ca...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445295 (stock #1751)
From our African Collection: A Male Rhythm Pounder of the Senufo peoples, Ivory Coast Africa, circa 1960. The Senufo people, also known as Siena, Senefo, Sene, Senoufo, and Syénambélé, are a West African ethnolinguistic group. They consist of diverse subgroups living in a region spanning the northern Ivory Coast, the southeastern Mali and the western Burkina Faso.One sub-group, the Nafana, is found in north-western Ghana. The art of Senufo people inspired twentieth-century European art...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445288 (stock #1749)
From our African Collection: Ivory Coast Figure, circa 1960. Côte d’Ivoire was inhabited in the Neolithic era and possibly earlier, although the humid climate has effaced most traces of the country’s earliest civilizations. Portuguese explorers arrived in the early 1600s, and French missionaries landed near the Gold Coast (Ghana) border in 1637. European contact was limited until the 19th century, mainly due to inhospitable geography along the coastline. Akan peoples fleeing the Asant...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1445286 (stock #1756)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
From our African Collection: An Eastern Congo Stool, circa 1950.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445281 (stock #1755)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
From our African Collection: Salampasu Ceremonial Mask with Rafia straw, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Circa 1950. '“The 60,000 Salampasu people live on the frontier between the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Angola. They maintain strong commercial and cultural relations with their southern neighbours, the Tschokwe (Chokwe) and the Lunda, to whom they pay tribute. The Salampasu are ultimately governed by a few high-ranking chiefs who are, in turn, assisted...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445274 (stock #1754)
From our African Collection: A Zande figure, circa 1960. From Northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 16" h. Zande, also called Azande, also spelled Asande, a people of Central Africa who speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Extending across the Nile-Congo drainage divide, they live partly in South Sudan, partly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and partly in the Central African Republic. The regions they inhabit, savanna in the nort...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445272 (stock #1753)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: African Teke Figure from the Republic of Congo. 18" h. “The Teke people settled in a territory lying across the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Gabon. During the 15th century, they were integrated into the Tio kingdom, but attained independence in the 17th century. Today, they live in villages led by a clan elder known as the Mfumu, who answers to a hereditary land-chief called Mfumu na tzee. Their economy is mainly based...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1445271 (stock #3220)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
African Drum Democratic Republic of the Congo, 24" long.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 2000 item #1445256 (stock #05338)
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$300.00


FULL MOON BOARDS

Traces of layered moon. 20th century, Japan. approx. 73 x 20 x 1.4cm (28.74 x 7.87 x 0.55in), approx. 60 x 17 x 1cm (23.62 x 6.69 x 0.39in)


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All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1910 item #1445048 (stock #978)
Beautiful original antique oil painting of a mountain sunset and waterfall by William Keith c.1890 oil on artist panel signed lower left. Presented in a quality contemporary gallery frame 16.5ʺW × 3ʺD × 19ʺH. Good antique condition very fine age craquelure very minor touch ups.. Biography: A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean o...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1445036 (stock #1849)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1875 – 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia on 28 September 1875, the son of Albion W. Lever.[2] He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton and on leaving school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood art school. He was a charter ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 2000 item #1445034 (stock #1199)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
Alexandre Grégoire (August 29, 1922 – July 28, 2001) was a Haitian painter who typically depicted scenes of Vodou, daily life, and historical events in the naïve style. Born in Jacmel, Grégoire was educated from 1930 to 1937 by the Christian Teaching Brothers, and then studied cabinet making at the Jacmel vocational school for two years. In 1939 he joined the army and played the tuba and saxophone in the army band. He stayed in the army until the 1950s; during the presidency of Paul Magl...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445033 (stock #1851)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,500.00
Beautiful floral still life oil on canvas measuring 29 x 34“ circa 1970 unsigned
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1445032 (stock #1845)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Watercolor and Paper and measurin 28 x 36“ framed and matted and a beautiful presentation Frame
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 2000 item #1445030 (stock #1847)
L'Enfant Gallery
$11,000.00
The artist returned to Ellis Island to paint the location where he had first entered the United States in 1925. Adolf Konrad was born in Bremen, Germany in 1915; he died in 2003. The family settled in Newark, NJ and young Adolf studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts. He would later become a favorite of the Newark Museum, fondly known as the painter laureate of New Jersey’s largest city. His work was often compared to Edward Hopper’s—in fact, the two shared a New York exhibition in 1962....
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444971 (stock #1758)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
From our African Collection: A 3 Part Dogon Wooden Sculpture from Mali, circa 1960. 24" h. The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture, and their architecture. Since the twentieth century, there have been significant changes in the social organisation, material culture and beliefs of the Dogon, in part because Dogon country is one of Mali's major tourist attractions The Dogon (or Kaador, Kaado) are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plat...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444969 (stock #1757)
From our African Collection: African Baule Statue , circa 1960. Colon statues, a term derived from the French statues colon ("colon" is the French noun for a colonist), are a genre of wooden figurative sculpture within African art which originated during the colonial period. The statues commonly depict European colonial officials such as civil servants, doctors, soldiers or technicians or Europeanised middle-class Africans. They are often characterised by recurrent decorative motifs, such as pit...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444968 (stock #1763)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
Danish maker MIK Pair of Carved figure all lamps 16 inches tall
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Iron : Pre 1920 item #1444964 (stock #1766)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,125.00
An African Makonde Kneeling Figure, circa 1900. 1.5" w , 10" h. The Makonde are known as master carvers throughout East Africa, and their statuary can be found being sold in tourist markets and in museums alike.The name Makonde art refers to East African sculptures or, less frequently, to modern paintings created by craftspeople or artists belonging to the Makonde people of northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania, separated by the Ruvuma river. Art historians, dealers and collectors have c...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1920 item #1444963 (stock #1761)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
African Baule Figure, 3" x 12"h, circa 1900. The Baule create art in several media, including wooden sculpture, gold and brass casting similar to their Asante ancestors, and mask and figure carving, which have been greatly influenced by their Senufo and Guro neighbors. The Baule belong to the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The tale of how they broke away from the Asante has b...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1910 item #1444950 (stock #1840)
L'Enfant Gallery
$45,000.00
Attributed to the orientalist painter Karl Leopold Müller, The German painter 1834-1892. One of Mueller‘s most important compositions marketplace Cairo commission by the Austrian state on the advice of the historian, patron and government minister Rudolph Eitelberger is now in the Austrian gallery in Vienna
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444893 (stock #1767)
Nigerian Cone Figure with three horns, black and white detailing. circa 1950. 4 x 13" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444892 (stock #1762)
African Ivory Coast Horned Mask, 8 x 16" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444889 (stock #1765)
From our African Collection: Gray Guro Mask 8 x 16"h. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region. Village life is regulated by a council of elders, representing each main family, and by secret societi...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1940 item #1444887 (stock #1768)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
African Luba Bone Nude Female Figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lega peoples, circa 1940. Measures 10" tall. This possibly unique female figure in the corpus of Luba sculpture offers significant insights into the culture and worldview of the Congolese communities from whence it came. It is also the reflection of local aesthetic values in a world where the notion of “Buya” means both “beauty” and “goodness,” and where art is intimately intertwined with the enhanceme...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1940 item #1444886 (stock #1771)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,875.00
African Lega Bone Figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, circa 1940. Measures 12" tall. The Lega peoples live on the southeastern edge of the central African rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the mid to late 1800s, the Lega and adjacent peoples were raided for the Indian Ocean trade in slaves and ivory. In 1885, the Lega were brought into the Congo Free State, which became the Belgian Congo in 1908. Still, the Lega live in an isolated and mountainous region...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444884 (stock #1776)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: A Luba Mask from the Democratic Republic of Congo, circa 1950. 12 x 16" h, 6.5" deep. The Luba people or Baluba are an ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the south-central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The majority of them live in this country, residing mainly in its Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema provinces. The Baluba consist of many sub-groups who speak various dialects of Luba (e.g. Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga) or other languages, such as Swahili...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1837 VR item #1444881 (stock #1832)
L'Enfant Gallery
$40,000.00
Portrait of T. Donaldson Strangeways, by artist Thomas Hastings, 1778-1864, Oil on Canvas 58 x 37". painter, draughtsman, watercolour artist and etcher of landscapes, topographical views, marine subjects and coast scenes. Born Thomas Barnett; changed his surname to Hastings in 1812, under which name he exhibited and published after this date. Officer in the British Army 1795-1811, Captain from 1799. Customs Officer from 1819. Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Society of Painters in Waterco...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444880 (stock #1769)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
From our African Collection: African Baule Colon Statue Pair, circa 1960. olon statues, a term derived from the French statues colon ("colon" is the French noun for a colonist), are a genre of wooden figurative sculpture within African art which originated during the colonial period. The statues commonly depict European colonial officials such as civil servants, doctors, soldiers or technicians or Europeanised middle-class Africans. They are often characterised by recurrent decorative moti...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1960 item #1444879 (stock #1775)
African Yoruba Beaded Vessel, measuring 4"d, 12" h. The arts of the Yoruba are as numerous as their deities, and many objects are placed on shrines to honor the gods and the ancestors. Beautiful sculpture abounds in wood and brass and the occasional terracotta. Varied masking traditions have resulted in a great diversity of mask forms. Additional important arts include pottery, weaving, beadworking and metalsmithing. he oral history of the Yoruba describes an origin myth, which tells of God...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444878 (stock #1773)
From our African Collection: a Red Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1970. This work measures 7 x 17' h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region. Village life is regulated by ...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444877 (stock #1774)
From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1970. This work measures 6 x 18" h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region. Village life is regulated by a co...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444875 (stock #1780)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: A Lwena Ceremonial Mask from Zambia, circa 1950 9 x 16" h . The Lwena people, also spelled Lovale,Luvale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but they also share cultural similarities to the Kaonde to the east, and to the Chokwe and Luchazi, important groups of eastern Angola. The Luvale are noted f...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1837 VR item #1444874 (stock #1835)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
French school of David, portrait of an aristocratic woman measuring 31 x 27“ oil on canvas, Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling,[1] harmonizing with the moral climate of the final year...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1444873 (stock #1779)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
From our African Collection: Ngere Mask (also called Guéré or Wè, and Kran in Liberia), from South West Ivory Coast, Liberia. 7" x 12" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444866 (stock #1778)
From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1960. This work measures 6.5 x 20" h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region. Village life is regulated by...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1960 item #1444815 (stock #1825)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Measuring 37” x 15” the sculpture is A beautiful mesmerizing piece of gilded artistry. Like most former (and present) capitals of Burma, Mandalay was founded on the wishes of the ruler of the day. On 13 February 1857, King Mindon founded a new royal capital at the foot of Mandalay Hill, ostensibly to fulfill a prophecy on the founding of a metropolis of Buddhism in that exact place on the occasion of the 2,400th jubilee of Buddhism.[10] King Mindon is the founder of Mandalay royal capit...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444803 (stock #1822)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,400.00
Measuring 31 inches high by 14 inches deep by 14 inches wide made of exotic pinewood Sculpture depicting the God of plenty one of the immortal of Japan
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1910 item #1444796 (stock #1820)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1838-1915, was born in Baltimore Maryland the descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first president of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts. He had a successful career as a naval engineer, working on such projects as the Statue of Liberty and the race rock lighthouse off Block Island. By the 1880s Smith gave up engineering to pursue art in writing among other pursuits. Smith was self taught and quickly achieve great skill and pastel charcoal...