Francois Batet

20th century color lithograph French scene female figures cathedral signed

1986

"Manomon (L'Estampe Moderne Volume I)" is an original estampe originale in color by Rene-Xavier Prinet. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece was published in "L'Estampe Moderne," an Art Nouveau publication, and features a seated woman in a white robe and large, coiffed hair. 15 3/4" x 12" art 25 1/4" x 21 1/2" frame René-Xavier Prinet , born on December 31 , 1861 in Vitry-le-François and died on January 26 , 1946 in Bourbonne-les-Bains is a French painter Prinet exerts a spiritual talent, holding a distinguished place in Parisian society. He is noted for his bourgeois interiors and his portraits (families Saglio and Desgranges for example). His home region, Franche-Comté , as well as the Normandy coast where his residence the "Double Six...

"Robert Macaire Banquier et Jure" is an original lithograph by Honore Daumier. It depicts a banker and his contemporary having a conversation. 1/2 D. 371 (Charivari) Artwork Size: 14 1/4" x 9 1/2" Frame Size: 21 5/8" x 19" Artist Bio: Daumier was a prolific draftsman who produced over 4000 lithographs, he was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen, although posthumously the value of his painting has also been recognized. His works offer a commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. French caricaturist and painter, born at Marseilles. He showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and subsequently with a bookseller. Having mastered the technique of lithography, Daumier started his artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, and illustrations for advertisements; these were followed by anonymous work for publishers, in which he followed the style of Charlet and displayed considerable enthusiasm for the Napoleonic legend. When, in the reign of Louis-Philippe, Philipon launched the comic journal, La Caricature, Daumier joined its staff, which included such powerful artists as Devéria, Raffet and Grandville, and started upon his pictorial campaign of scathing satire upon the foibles of the bourgeoisie, the corruption of the law and the incompetence of a blundering government. His caricature of the king as "Gargantua" led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months at Ste. Pélagie in 1832. The publication of La Caricature was discontinued soon after, but Philipon provided a new field for Daumier's activity when he founded the Charivari. For this journal Daumier produced his famous social caricatures, in which bourgeois society is held up to ridicule in the figure of Robert Macaire, the hero of a then popular melodrama. Another series, "L'Histoire Ancienne", was directed against the pseudoclassicism which held the art of the period in fetters. In 1848 Daumier embarked again on his political campaign, still in the service of Charivari, which he left in 1860 and rejoined in 1864. In spite of his prodigious activity in the field of caricature -- the list of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled in 1904 numbers no fewer than 3958 -- he found time for flight in the higher sphere of painting. Except for the searching truthfulness of his vision and the powerful directness of his brushwork, it would be difficult to recognize the creator of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas bleus, Les Bohémiens de Paris, and the Masques, in the paintings of "Christ and His Apostles" at the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam, or in his "Good Samaritan", "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza", "Christ Mocked...

"Battle of Monmouth June 28, 1778" is an original lithograph by Kurz & Allison. It depicts a battle in the American Revolutionary War. 12 1/4" x 18" art 21 1/4" x 27" frame Kurz &...

"Daphnis et Chloe (Two Bulls & Person in Water)" is an original lithograph by Pierre Bonnard, signed in lower left. It is a black and white work ...

Original Back Our Girls Over There Y.W.C.A. WW1 antique poster: Linen-backed original Beautiful Y.W.C.A. Telephone operator sitting at the control pane...

Original linen-backed 1974 Spoleto poster. Roman Polanski directed Alban Berg's opera LuLu at the Spoleto Festival, which was conducted by Christopher K...

Duke Ellington Jazz Music Legend African American Grammys NY Times Published Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) Duke Ellington Sight Size: 12 x 12 1/4 inches Etching with aquatint Signed ...

The Paint Horse: Magritte is a lithograph on paper, 9.5 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 241/275 (there were also 100 Roman a...