19th century art

Cascading Falls

(Augsburg 1822–1906 Vienna) Floral still life, signed, dated Birkinger (18)79, oil on canvas, 84 x 53 cm, framed, (Rei)

Gaston de Latouche 1854-1913 Frankrijk

A bacchanal in a wooded landscape, a temple with an offer to Bacchus beyond, in a trompe l'oeil frame

View Rocky Coast in the Moonlight (1830) By Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger; oil on canvas; 64.5 x 51.5 cm; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

What’s a better inlook inside the past world than the art? Today I want to take you back to the 19th-century Polish countryside (mostly the 2nd half of that century) and therefore I prepared …

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky loved painting the sea. A Crimean native, he was born in Feodosia, a port town, and thus had great waters as a constant companion. This 19th century Russian Armenian painter had real knack for depicting waves. Light and translucent, they perfectly capture the essence of the real thing. Many of these paintings featured a human element, too, with ships showing the struggle between man and nature.

(Amalfi 1863-1920 Naples) Amalfi, signed and inscribed P. Scoppetta Amalfi, oil on canvas, 46 x 25 cm, framed, (GG) Provenance: Galleria d'Arte Mario Bianchi d'Espinosa, Naples; Italian private collection.

When famous Realism artists emerged in France after the French Revolution of 1848, they wanted to portray the common man as he was. They went against the idealized paintings of Neoclassical artists and the often overly dramatized paintings of Romantic artists. These two art movements had been dominant during the first half of the 19th century. It went hand in hand with the political situation at the time. #Artworks #paintings #Realism #Realismpaintings