'Hera' by Eduard Niczky (1850-1919). A fine 19^th century neoclassical portrait of the Greek queen of the gods depicted in her golden diadem and yellow robe. The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commissioned, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All our paintings are sold in the finest condition they can be for their age having been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Eduard Niczky trained at the Kassel Art Academy before moving to Munich in 1871 to study under Arthur von Ramberg at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Over the next 30 years he built an international reputation of as gifted and versatile painter of historical subject pictures, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Dimensions: (framed) 67cm x 87cm (26½” x 34¼”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 49½cm x 69½cm (19½” x 27¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers. Condition: Excellent. Professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

'La Femme en Noir' by Eugène Accard (1824-1888). The painting - which depicts a young Parisienne beauty in a a salon interior - is signed by the artist and presented in a superb quality, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. As with all the paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Born in Bordeaux, Eugène Accard moved to Paris to study with the eminent French Academic painter Abel de Pujol (1785-1861) and at École des Beaux-arts with Léon Cogniet (1794-1880). Accard went on to achieve critical and commercial success with his historical subject pictures and portraits of Parisienne society beauties, being particularly famous for his rendering of period costume. Eugène Accard exhibited at the Salon in Paris from 1846 until the year before his death in 1887. Dimensions: (framed) 70cm x 91cm (27½” x 35¾”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 52cm x 73cm (20½” x 28¾”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private French collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, lined, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.

'En Garde' by Jean Beraud (1849-1936). The painting - which depicts a fashionable young Parisienne escrimeuses - is signed by the artist and presented in a fine quality, bespoke gold metal leaf frame. As with all the paintings we sell it is offered in the finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned, conserved and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Jean Béraud was one of the most famous painters of Paris during La Belle Époque. Rather like his contemporary Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) his evocative paintings of Parisian high society glimpsed in the gardens, salons and boulevards of the French capital are a blend of the academic art of the Salon and that of his friend Édouard Manet and the other French Impressionists. Béraud studied at the Lycée Bonaparte before enrolling with the studio of Léon Bonnat (1833-1922). Béraud first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1873. His association with Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), one of France’s most influential dealers, helped bring him considerable commercial success and by 1890 Beraud had established himself as the painter of Parisian life. Jean Beraud was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1887 and an Officer in 1892. Today his paintings are found in the National Gallery in London, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Dimensions: (framed) 52cm x 74cm (20½” x 29”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 33cm x 55¼cm (13” x 21¾”) Medium: Oil on mahogany panel. Provenance: Artist’s panel supplied by F. Dupre of Paris circa 1900. Various auction stencils verso. Private collection. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Patrick Offenstadt, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, November 20, 2019. Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers. Condition: Very good. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.  

'L'Extase' by Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891). The painting - which depicts a young Parisienne society beauty - is inscribed by the artist verso and sold in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf neoclassical frame. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Chaplin’s celebrated portraits of young Belle Epoque beauties are reminiscent of the 18th century romanticism of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) and François Boucher (1703–1770) and established him as one of the foremost French academic painters of the period. By the late 1850’s Chaplin was being inundated with commissions from the French aristocracy requesting portraits of their wives and daughters. Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, was also a big fan and appointed him an artist of the court. Her and her husband’s enthusiastic support would soon come in especially useful when, in 1859, the Chaplin’s portrait ‘Aurora’ was banned by the judges of the Salon for being “too erotically suggestive”. The disqualification order was subsequently overturned when Napoleon III himself sprung to Chaplin’s defence. During his lifetime Chaplin was awarded numerous medals at the Paris Salon and in 1865 he was declared a Chevalier and later Officer of la Légion d’Honneur (1881). Today, works by Charles Chaplin are held in the collections of the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Dimensions: (framed) 92cm x 68cm (36¼” x 26¾”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 73cm x 49cm (28¾” x 19¼”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private UK collection. Presentation: Newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. All of the new frames we commission are especially made for us to order by one of the UK’s top period frame makers. Condition: Excellent. Newly professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.