Dimensions: Height: 46 in (116.84 cm)Width: 58.5 in (148.59 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm) Hay Gatherer at Rest in the Field by Francois Alfred Delobbe 1881 Oil on Canvas

 SOLD

A beautiful large and important masterpiece by Francois Alfred Delobbe.

A similar artwork old master was sold April 18 2008 at Sotheby's for $181,000.00 + 20%

Delobbe's two most powerful inspirations were his deep connection to the French countryside and William Bouguereau, his teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts. Born in Paris and absorbed in his studies for so many years, the young artist had few opportunities to escape the city. It was not until Delobbe journeyed to Concarneau, the native home of his friend and fellow artist Alfred Guillou, that he began to explore Brittany's rocky fields and ancient villages. While the region was painted by many of Delobbe's contemporaries, most famously Jules Breton, Delobbe's Parisian upbringing perhaps made him particularly sensitive to the effects of the open skies, verdant fields, and sweeping, sandy beaches. Most of his traveling took place in spring and summer, and he used the plein air sketches completed then during the winter in his City Studio. Many of his favorite models came from the areas around Beuzec-cap-Sizun and Lanriec,

As with his mentor's canvases, Delobbe's smooth brushwork erases the presence of the painter and creates a balance between immobile, static form and rich surface details, textures, and colors. Visual evidence that a rustic, rural way of life remained, such portraits eased late nineteenth century anxieties about France's growing industrialization. There is a naturalistic truth to Delobbe's representation of the Characters, the skin slightly reddened by rough winds and harsh sun, taking a break on a pile of Hay by her infant and older daughter. Almost effortlessly, from her tool to the back right side, while on her lap rests a large sifting tool. While this process was notoriously labor-intensive, Delobbe's working woman reveals little of the effort involved. With her stoic stance and calm expression the artist creates an epic figure to join the ranks of Breton's strong-armed field hand in or the maid busy haying in Julien Dupré's The Harvester (figs 2, 3). In her solemnity, Delobbe's sifter becomes an icon of rural labor, her powerful strength and work never ceasing, her connection to the land monumental, yet sensitively portrayed.

Height: 20.25 Inches Width 24.5 Inches and thickness 1.5 Inches High time the California Desert Wall Art Oil on Canvas Decorative object framed . A Nicely painted Artwork oil on Canvas of the high time in the California Desert. Framed and colorful.

At first look, desert habitats might appear harsh and desolate with lack of rain and high temperatures . On the contrary, Cactus plants store water and are home to different desert animals.

The desert landscape is wildly varied – shimmering white sand dunes, natural rock arches, craters from volcanic eruptions, canyons with layers of red, green, pink, yellow rocks, mountainous rock formations two billion years old. Desert oases are filled with lush greenery.

In spring, after winter rains, the deserts bloom with colorful wildflowers such as depicted in this beautiful work. February to April is the ideal time when wild flowers are in bloom – red ocotillos, orange poppies, purple lavender, lupine, heliotrope and sand verbena.

it's a stunning piece to add to your special collection, add a touch of color and charm to your home. very decorative and versatile, it can go in a bedroom a  living room , office , entry . or simply mounted on top of your fireplace as a focal point. The frame is beautiful with some cracks and losses as seen in the pictures, overall good condition. Antique Dealer West Hollywood CA Melrose Ave La Cienega Blvd. This painting is timeless and helps you dream and relax. it can be in a traditional décor as well as a farm, a winery , a modern house , midcentury.

A great gift idea for a house warming, or to add to your collection of unique beautiful happy Artwork.

Height: 20.25 Inches Width 24.5 Inches and thickness 1.5 Inches 

Height: 64.5 in (163.83 cm)Width: 55 in (139.7 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm) Large 18th C. Bucolic Painting Garden Nature Scene Landscape Dog Flowers Antique . A Beautiful Hand painted bucolic " Bucolique " painting in the spirit of Jean-Honoré Fragonard  , depicting a beautiful Garden Scene With a large pallet of colors from blue to pink , red and green.

Distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism where pleasure plays a central role Psychological or motivational hedonism claims that human behavior is determined by desires to increase pleasure and to decrease pain .  Romantic, inspiring , uplifting tableau of a beautiful dog sitting by a Summer compagne hat ornate with flowers and ribbon calling for the spring season , at the base of a carved stone pedestal with an Urn mounted and decorated with an ocean of flowers. The perfect romantic touch of the love for animals throughout history . Original Hand carved wood Gilt frame.

To mount in a drawing room , Library , bedroom , entryway on top of a console or chest of drawers. Very decorative and colorful. It will be a fantastic touch on top of a mantle fireplace surround instead of the trumeau .  Art Gallery Antique Dealer Los angeles , west Hollywood Melrose Ave La Cienega Blvd. A gift idea for a house warming for someone special . As seen in the pictures , some work was done over the centuries frame canvas. Cracks losses etc . adding even more charm to this painting. 

Dimensions: Height: 98 in (248.92 cm)Width: 106 in (269.24 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Pair of 18th Century Very Large Oil on Canvas Panels framed Wall mount Art LA CA . Very RARE 18th century very large and impressive pair of French / Continental painted oil on canvas panels , fit for Grand Estates .

Outstanding Colors and design. Each panel have Two medallions and each representing Putties at play. On one we have the little Angels amorini representing cupids playing in the Clouds the game of Love heart Target with bow and Arrow. Represented with very beautiful figures and incredible face expression, surrounded by a wreath. The 2^nd medallion representing A putto Painter by the side of another winged friend , both putti in a work of art depicted as a chubby male children both winged . The Artist of the two is represented with an older face expression, possibly the painter depicting himself in it.

On the 2^nd panel, the 1^st medallion representing the little winged angels At work in the fields, representing nature, hard work, and a clear representation that we reap what we sow, and in this case, they are reaping the rewards of the hard work. The 2^nd medallion on that panel with Two Amorini one at sleep and protected by the other Amorini bearer of light. Floating in the skies above the clouds.

Celebrations Garland all throughout with flowers , bows, nature, leaves , pedestals and urns ornate with the generosity of nature, overflowing with the wealth and blessings. Imposing Huge panels that will Elevate your interior design. Continental panels that can go in a living or dining room, grand entrance hallways , a library , a high end office.

Antique dealer Los Angeles CA West Hollywood Melrose Ave La Cienega blvd. , interior design element , high end decor . Very Large Scale art with a beautiful Hand made Frame .

Dimensions: Height: 98 in (248.92 cm)Width: 106 in (269.24 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Museums Include:

Victoria and Albert Museum : Rocky Promontory / The Harvest Moon / Landscape, Evening /  A Coming Storm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC) /  Landscape, Driving Cattle.

Museum of London : Collins's Farm, North End, Hampstead, London

At Yale Center for British Art : John Linnell, 1792–1882, A Finished Study for 'Reaping', 1858

New York Metropolitan  and National Portrait Gallery.

Comparable art work sold at Auctions: 

1-      John Linnell (1792-1882)  49 x 73 in.  The Return of Ulysses London 19 February 2003 Price realized  GBP 171,650 + 25% Fee   TOTAL $302,000

2-      SMALL Art WORK John Linnell (1792-1882)  SMALL  11 x 13 7/8 in.    The potato field - Isle of Wight Price realized GBP 50,000   Sold July 2017

3-      John Linnell (London 1792-1882)  39½ x 54¼ in Reapers at Noon June 2009 Price realized USD 206,500+ 25%  TOTAL $258,000 Dollars

John Linnell was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.

John Linnell was born in Bloomsbury, London on 16 June 1792., where his father was a carver and gilder. He was in contact with artists from an early age, and by the age of ten was drawing and selling portraits in chalk and pencil. His first art teacher was the American-born artist Benjamin West, and he spent a year in the house of the painter John Varley, where William Hunt and William Mulready were also pupils, and made the acquaintance of Shelley, Godwin and others. In 1805 he was admitted to study at the Royal Academy, where he obtained medals for drawing, modelling and sculpture. He was trained as an engraver, and executed a transcript of Varley's "Burial of Saul."

In 1808, the 16-year-old Linnell moved into the house of the painter William Mulready, whose wife had accused him of infidelity with both other women and boys. Linnell's association with Mulready may have caused the breakup of Mulready's marriage.

In later life Linnell occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1833, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and, in 1840, superintending the issue of a selection of plates from the pictures in Buckingham Palace, one of them, a Titian landscape, which he engraved in mezzotint. At first he supported himself mainly by miniature painting and execution of larger portraits, such as the likenesses of Mulready, Richard Whately, Peel and Thomas Carlyle. Several of his portraits he engraved in line and mezzotint.

He painted many subjects like the "St John Preaching," the "Covenant of Abraham," and the "Journey to Emmaus," in which, while the landscape is usually prominent the figures are of sufficient importance to supply the title of the work. But it is mainly in connexion with paintings of pure landscapes that his name is known. His works commonly deal with some scene of typical uneventful English landscape, which is made impressive by a gorgeous effect of sunrise or sunset. They are full of true poetic feeling, and are rich and glowing in colour.

Linnell commanded large prices for his pictures, and about 1850 he purchased a property at Redhill, Surrey, where he lived till his death on 20 January 1882, painting with unabated powers until within the last few years of his life. He devoted himself to painting landscapes notably of the North Downs and Kentish Weald. His leisure was occupied with a study of the Bible in the original, and he published several pamphlets and treatises of Biblical criticism. Linnell was one of the best friends and kindest patrons of William Blake. He gave him the two largest commissions he received for single series of designs—£150 for drawings and engravings of The Inventions to the Book of Job, and a like sum for those illustrative of Dante Aligheri.

He was a friend of the painter Edward Thomas Daniell. A blue plaque commemorates Linnell at Old Wyldes' at North End, Hampstead. The plaque mentions that William Blake stayed with Linnell as his guest.

Subject Terms in this art work: agriculture | animal | clouds | corn | cutting | dog (animal) | farm | farming | farmland | fields | gathering | harvest | hay | labor | laborers | landscape | men | reapers | rural | study (visual work) | summer | woman | work

it's a stunning piece to add to your special collection, add a touch of color and charm to your home. very decorative and versatile, it can go in a bedroom a  living room , office , entry . or simply mounted on top of your fireplace as a focal point. The frame is beautiful with some cracks and losses as seen in the pictures, overall good condition. Antique Dealer West Hollywood CA Melrose Ave La Cienega Blvd. This painting is timeless and helps you dream and relax. it can be in a traditional décor as well as a farm, a winery , a modern house , midcentury.

A great gift idea for a house warming, it’s a Rare collector’s painting to add to your special collection of unique beautiful happy Artwork. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. To sending your expert to create an independent Condition report , by appointment only at la maison francaise antiques.  Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Lamaisonfrancaise, Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. We have many additional pictures of the back and under the blue light. No apparent flaking  or losses but as you can see the cracks which is normal after 150 years. You are welcome to send your experts.