19th Century French School, '"L'optique" Peep Show,' A rare early French genre painting depicting a traveling vendor with his peep show. A unique country setting of a mother and her children viewing a display titled "Le Vrai Jesus". This work done circa 1820's is unsigned but suggests the work in style and subject of Louis Leopold Boilly,(1761-1845). The painting has been lined and has some areas of inpainting, mostly the bottom edge and upper right. The painting may have been reduced in size...

Samuel Lancaster Gerry, American, 1813-1891, "Lake in the Mountains," oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches, c. 1875, signed "SL Gerry," l.l, in what appears to be the original gilt frame. Samuel Gerry was a self-taught artist known for his majestic mountain landscapes, especially of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Although he didn't have much formal training, he was greatly influenced by the work of Thomas Cole and A. B Durand, as well as some artists of the European schools...

William Preston Phelps, American, 1849-1923, "springtime, Chesham, NH," oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, c. 1890, signed "WP Phelps", in a period gilt frame. Phelps was known as the "Painter of Monadnock." He lived most of his life in Dublin, NH, with the exception of several years he spent studying art in Europe. He painted many scenes of the area landscape of farms, fields and forests, most of which set against the backdrop of the majestic Mount Monadnock.

Max Weyl, German-American, 1837 - 1914, "Autumn in Virginia," oil on canvas, image size 21 x 26 1/2 inches, ornate period gilt frame, signed l.l. "Max Weyl". Born in Germany but brought to the US as a child, Weyl became one of the most popular landscape painters of the Washington D.C. area. In 1879 he traveled to Europe and was greatly influenced by the Barbizon style and for the next two decades his landscapes of the D.C. area won him renown.

Samuel John Egbert Jones, active 1820-1855, Sunset Landscape, oil on canvas, image size 16X24 inches, signed and dated 1851 L.R., contemporary gilt frame

Emile Lambinet, French, 1815-1877, oil on panel, Punts at a Quiet Landing, 11 x 16 inches, cradle backing, signed lower right.

Robert Riggs, American, 1896-1972, "One Punch Knockout," Lithograph, image size 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches, 1934, edition of approx. 50, cat: Bassham-49, pencil signed, titled and numbered "2", framed.

William Henry Howe, American, 1846-1929, oil on panel, "Low Lands - Korten Hof Holland", 13 1/2 x 19 inches, signed "Howe" lower right

Jacques Villon, French, 1875-1963, drypoint and aquatint etching, "Renee a Bicyclette"image size: 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 1906, numbered 14/50 l.l., pencil signed l.r., published by Sagot, Paris with the blind stamp l.r., A richly inked impression with ample margins.

Milton H. Lowell, American, 1848-1927, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, signed "MH LOWELL" lower left. A primarily self-taught artist, Lowell preferred landscapes and worked mainly in the Adirondacks and Hudson River Valley.

Theodor V.C. Valenkamph, American, 1868-1924, oil on canvas, "Salt Bark Leaving Harbor", 24 x 36 inches, 1903, signed and dated lower right, framed.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle,1775-1862, British, Returning Home, a shepherd ad his flock, watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1807, L.L. image size 20X27 inches, period gilt frame