All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1419609 (stock #JB02551)
By the highly important German impressionist and expressionist artist LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925) is this soft-ground etching, 9" by 6 1/2" inside the present mat, the size as framed 20" by 15 1/2", titled "Portrait of Hermann Struck", signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right margin and by the printer Heinrich Wetterroth at lower left margin (along with other difficult to decipher information, written in fine pencil), and dated in the plate at upper right "1911"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1483637 (stock #3577)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,500.00
A wonderful watercolor seascape by American artist Alfred Thompson Britcher 1837-1908. Measuring 20” x 15”…… Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in an academy at Newburyport, Massachusetts. He began his career as a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts. When not working, he studied at the Lowell Institute. He also studied with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1920 item #1437158 (stock #824)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,800.00
"Floral Still Life" by French artist Alisev , Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16", Frame Size 24 x 20"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1419268 (stock #JB02980)
**ONE OF SEVERAL WORKS BY THIS ARTIST IN MY SHOP**Oil on canvas laid on board painting of colorful, flowering shrubs and bushes alongside the Pacific shore, 8 3/8" by 11" (11 3/4" by 14 3/4" in very attractive vintage pie crust style frame), signed at lower right center by the well listed California painter WILLIAM CONSTABLE ADAM (1846-1931). This is a typical work of an artist who is today best known for his depictions of the landscapes, gardens, and houses of the Monterey Peninsula area...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1430128
A small unframed painting of a creek or pond in the forest, 3 3/4" by 5 1/2", signed at lower right and dated 1918 by early San Francisco artist ALICE MEUSSDORFFER (1871-1949). The work, roughly the size of an index card, is painted in oil on a thin card laid on a thicker card. Meussdorffer was born in San Francisco in 1871, the daughter of a well-known hat maker...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1920 item #1441666 (stock #312)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
Portrait of Steiglitz by Georgia Engelhoshf, Framed silver print photo, 20 x 17". Taken in Lake George, 1940.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1920 item #1418258 (stock #JB02483)
American circa 1910 or at least early twentieth century pastel on paper drawing of grapes, apples and a banana, 17" by 20 3/4" framed in an oval, unsigned. The work is typical of pastel still life of the period, though I do not believe it by the "Chandler" workshop. Modest homes of the period were lucky to have an original work of art rather than a print. This one has survived in very good condition...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1920 item #1481933 (stock #3520)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
An early American painting circa 1820-40 , portrait of a woman holding a sealed red wax letter, which the family always called THE SCARLET LETTER. THE WORK MEASURING 38” x 32”
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1325719
Tavik F. Simon, Czechoslovakian, 1877-1942, "Puente Nuevo at Rondo- Spain". This is a remarkable original etching by Czechoslovakian artist T. F. Simon, depicting the stunning architecture of the Puente Nuevo bridge in Ronda, Spain. The image size is 13 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches, published in 1913 in an edition of 150, cat: Novak-206, nunmbered in pencil with the artist's stamp lower left, pencil signed lower right...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1423797 (stock #39B47-1418)
Cast bronze portrait bas relief plaque of New York stationer, William Makepeace Hastings (1831-1912). Dated 1910. Size: 15 in. x 10 in. Signed with a monogram (artist not identified by us).
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1449528 (stock #1333)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
Bronze Sculpture of Aurora The Goddess of the Dawn by Artist Gustav Michel, 1854-1924. Gustave Frédéric Michel (1851–1924) was a French sculptor, and medallist, according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today. He also taught sculpture; among his pupils was the American Edith Howland...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1376374 (stock #10967)
Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Old Kington Covered Bridge over the Juniata River, Bedford, Pennsylvania"

Oil on board, signed lower right and titled on the reverse

Painting: 8" x 9.6"
Frame: 14.5" x 16"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1920 item #1377916
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Collotype hand signed limited edition 1917 Les mères pendant la guerre sight 9.5" by 13.5" with original matt board
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1318450
Introduction; Hans Muller was born in Vienna Austria on January 10th 1873. He was a pupil of the sculptor Edmund Hellmmer at the Vienna Academe of Art. Much of his work is on permanent display in the Simu Museum in Bucharest, Hungary. Description; Superbly crafted bronze sculpture of standing gentelman, it seems to be elder Goethe. This item stands 10.5 inches long on a 2 inches marble base, total height is 13.5 inches. sculpture is from late 19th/early 20th century period...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1920 item #1461090 (stock #2577)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,600.00
Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962), color etching depicting the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, signed in pencil bottom center. Image: 17.5" H x 12.25" W; frame: 27.25" H x 20.75" W ……. 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 : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #909395 (stock #9899)
Justin Faivre (American)

Decline of the Windjammers

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated: “1934” and titled in pencil on the reverse.

Sheet size: 12.5” x 18.5”
Mat size: 19.5” x 25.5”
Unframed

Justin Faivre was born in Matthews, Indiana. At the age of 5, however, he moved to Portland, Oregon ...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1104059
Incredible Miniature Pair Continental Bronze Busts of Children, on marble base. Size: The girl statue ans a height of 4 1/2 inches and the boy's height is 4 1/4 inches. Condition Report: Excellent.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1920 item #1434274
An accomplished colored pencil drawing of a watery landscape, the sun reflecting off those waters, 6 1/2" by 4" (17 1/2" by 15" framed), signed in pencil lower left by the noted American artist CHARLES MELVILLE DEWEY (1849-1937). Dewey was born in northwestern New York state between the Adirondacks and Buffalo. Confined to bed as a youngster by a hip injury, he studied art. By the mid 1870's he was studying at the National Academy and shortly thereafter, in Paris with Carolus-Duran, who he as...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1920 item #1434609
A lovely pastel drawing of a young woman, with skilled modeling of the face and careful attention to hair and spring blossom background, not signed on front but sliver of preserved old paper affixed to backing by a modern day framer states subject is one Ruth Noble, age 17, the work drawn by one Mildred Stillman, art teacher at Wyoming Academy, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Kingston is in northeastern Pennsylvania not far from Scranton and near Wilkes-Barre. There does not seem to be any firm inform...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1423332 (stock #JB03649)
Old mountain and canyon landscape with foreground water and fog in the trees, 22 1/2" by 12 3/4" framed, unsigned, painted on old gray art board. The work likely dates to about the first quarter of the 20th century or possibly last years of the 19th. The vertical format would complement a narrow small wall. Old gold frame has some chip losses especially at corners. The whitish clouds in the sky might exhibit some definite paint wear; but to the degree that this almost blends into the clouds,...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1416220 (stock #JB03455)
Old American watercolor painting, early 1900's, featuring a leafless tree in what is apparently late autumn, a flash of color in the middle distance giving an indication that winter has not completely arrived. The work appears unsigned. Measurements are 15 1/4" by 10" and 18 1/4" by 12 1/2" in the old frame, which shows wear. The watercolor itself has survived the decades in good condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1920 item #948353 (stock #2388)
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Samuel John Peploe, Britain, Edinburgh 1871-1935. This large impressive dreamy impressionist painting is oil on canvas, signed lower right and on stretcher bar. It is 24 2/16"H by 36 3/16" W in a newer impressionist style frame 37 3/4"H by 49 5/8"W. It has been lined with some scattered inpainting. Peploe studied at the College of Art in Edinburgh and the Academie Julian under Bouguereau and a member of the Scottish Royal Academy. His work is in the Edinburg and Glasgow Museums, is listed in Ben...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1416637 (stock #JB02514)
Executed on heavy watercolor paper, this is a beautiful work by a trained hand, 18" by 26 1/2", unframed, and unsigned. At lower left is written "Valley Ten P/1912", and to the right of and below that "After a fire". On the reverse in pencil is "Valley of Ten Peaks" and "MORAINE LAKE". The painting has foxing in the sky and the reverse is also foxed, but the colors are not faded. There are tack holes in each of the lower corners, and two sharp but short creases, each near the edges, as show...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1281120
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, "Le Mee". This is a very fine original etching with beautiful plate tone by French artist Louis Legrand. The image size is 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches, published in 1911 in an edition of 50 impressions, cat: Arwas- 426, state II/II, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1920 item #56578
4 PAINTINGS by the Artist Frank Russell Green. 1. An IMPRESSIONIST Depiction of a WINDMILL by the ARTIST. Oil on BOARD sight size is 7.75" X 10"; framed size is 10" X 12" both approx. Viewer will find some age cracking to this Oil. Signed lower right: Frank Russell Green/ HOLLAND. Back has a label: Salgamundi Club/ Thumb-box Exhibition/ FRANK RUSSELL GREEN. 2. Painting of a Horse Drawn Cart. 3. Watercolor titled A GRAY DAY. 4. Self Portrait Oil on Canvas. ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1446012 (stock #2015)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
Sir Frank William Brangwyn Frank Brangwyn c1900e.jpg Born 12 May 1867 Bruges, Belgium Died 11 June 1956 (aged 89) Ditchling, Sussex, England Nationality British Awards Albert Medal (1932) Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer. Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, table ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1420455 (stock #JB03124)
Watercolor of a classic English church, the Holy Trinity Church, in the park-like autumnal setting of world-famous Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of everything Shakespeare, of course. The final resting places of Shakespeare and Ann Hathaway are actually in this church. The water which appears as a small pond or lake is the River Avon. This piece measures 10 1/4" by 14 3/8 " (16 3/4" by 21" nicely framed), and is signed at lower left "R. W. Sayle", who was a local painter there. The artist ha...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1422602 (stock #JB04947)
A pleasant watercolor painting of a working windmill in an extensive landscape, the sheet 9 3/4" by 13 1/4", currently loose under a mat, no frame, signed at lower left by listed English artist ALFRED WILLIAM RICH (1856-1921). Other than normal age toning of the paper, there are several spots of foxing, a missing extreme upper right corner, which is easily hidden by the mat, and reverse browning from residue of varnish or old adhesive. The watercolor is firmly in the tradition of English water...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1920 item #1464009 (stock #2693)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Berlin Estate Franz Joseph Haydn[a] (/ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] (listen); 31 March[b] 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio.[2] His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".[3][4] Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy fam...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1920 item #1441138 (stock #438)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,700.00
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of St. James, Hand Colored Lithograph Measuring 28 x 38“, frame size 36 x 44“ Schessle is the original artist
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1920 item #1421487 (stock #JB04878)
A rare woodcut color print of exotic cacti in small pots on a yellow and white cloth, 9 3/8" by 9 3/8" inside the innermost mat, 18 1/4" by 17 1/2" as framed, pencil signed at lower right by the artist, EMMA (EMILIE LEONORE) MEYER (1859-1921). The paper use is an exceedingly delicate tissue-like paper. This is a finely crafted work by an artist from Denmark, who obviously deserves to be better known. Meyer was a Danish landscape painter, Arts & Crafts artist, etcher and woodblock print ma...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #1420328 (stock #JB03199)
This is a drawing in watercolor, gouache, pencil and even some gold paint, 11 3/4" by 9 1/4", (19" by 16" in simple modern day framing), the subject wall paper or other wall details of an elegant parlor or salon of the 19th or 18th century, signed at lower right by the artist, REINHOLD VOLKEL (VOELKEL) and inscribed just below the signature "WIEN" (Vienna). The drawing is typical of the mostly works-on-paper oeuvre of the artist, who was known in the late years of the 19th century and early yea...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1920 item #1457123 (stock #2376)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
Alberto Lorenzi 1880-1969 Italian born artist known for his work in the early nineteenth century. This work is a colorful woodblock done in the Japanese style in a frame with a fan shape opening
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1920 item #1333369 (stock #10717)
Joseph Pennell (American 1857-1926)

The Inauguration Steps, 1912

Lithograph on ivory laid paper

17 x 22 (image); 19 x 24.5 (sheet); 17.75" x 22.25" (sight); 24" x 30" (frame)

Wuerth 265

Washington D.C. series. Edition of 25. Signed on stone and in pencil and inscribed: " #2 The Inauguration Portico"

This is from a series of six lithographs made for the Century Magazine entitled "The Capitol at Washington” and described as the "East Front of the Capitol" ...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1920 item #642130 (stock #59)
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“Flirtation” Watercolor on paper 11” x 15” view size \ 26 1/8” x 30 1/8” framed Aureli was a native of Rome, Italy. He became most famous for his watercolors depicting scenes of courtship and flirtation between Victorian era subjects in formal dress within opulent interiors . Aureli is an extensively listed artist appearing in Mallet, Davenports and Art Price to name a few. The well executed of these compositions, such as this one, have commanded thousands of dollars at au...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1920 item #1377806
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$95.00
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Collotype hand signed limited edition 1917 Les mères pendant la guerre sight 9.5" by 13.5" with original matt board