Help.. Painting ID
Jeffrey Burchard
Can anyone help identify the folling two artworks:
19TH CENTURY BATHING NUDES:
TANTALIZING EUROPEAN OIL ON CANVAS OF 3 WOMEN BATHING: This
painting is an outstanding decorative composition done with fantasy
laced tone and subject matter, unsigned, 24" x 18 1/2"
http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l050.jpg
BEAUTIFUL MID-19TH CENTURY LANDSCAPE: One of the top ten best
paintings in the last year! This oil on canvas landscape could be
European, but it also could be by an American who studied abroad in
Europe, ie. Daniel Ridgeway Knight etc. It is illegibly signed
lower left, and measures 20" x 30".
http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l098.jpg
Signature: http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l098s.jpg
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!!
JB
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Jeffrey Burchard <burc...@atlantic.net> wrote:
>http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l050.jpg
>http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l098.jpg
>Signature: http://www.auctions-fl.com/gifs/sept2897/l098s.jpg
>http://www.auctions-fl.com
I am responding only to the landscape whcih is a sophisticated
painting by a knowledgable artist.The signature is totally illegible,
but I can tell you a little on style. The influences of late Corot is
obvious, but if the color is accurate, the painting is also a
conservative response to impressionism. The purples, violets and
oranges in the foliage and even the coolness ofthe color in the
brownish house point to a date after the 1880s. It might even have
been painted as late as 1900-10 by an artist formed earlier. It is
clearly Europe but because of the obvious skill, and the early
influence of impressionism I would point to an artist not in his
school years but older. So a European. Possibly not French but
Belgian like Mauve or someone influenced by him. But someone close to
academic French painting. This painting or another by the same artist
could have gotten into one of the annual salons. Looking through a
cache of these catalogs from the years 1880-1900 might turn up a
painting similar enough to identify. When you have seen black and
whites[since color is crucial to identification here], you could go to
the Frick Collections' great library of individual paintings most
often in color, cataloged with a view to the exact problem you have.
It is often consulted by dealers for this purpose. But first you need
to identify the "suspects".
Sincerely,
Gabriel