Henri Charles Manguin - Walk in Saint Tropez [1905]

Henri Charles Manguin - Walk in Saint Tropez [1905], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874 – Saint Tropez, September 25, 1949) was a French painter. Manguin was very much influenced by impressionism as is seen in his use of bright pastel hues. He married in 1899 and made numerous portraits of his wife, Jeanne, and their family. In 1902, Manguin had his first exhibition at the Salon des Independants and d'Automne. Many of his paintings were of Mediterranean landscapes; these represented the height of his career as a Fauve artist.

[Oil on canvas, 73 x 91.5 cm]

Thomas Le Clear - Young America [c.1863]

Thomas Le Clear - Young America [c.1863], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

In Young America, Le Clear (American, 1818 – 1882) alludes to the complex racial, labour, political, and financial problems surrounding the Civil War, but softens his message by letting children tell the tale. Each figure in the painting can be associated with hotly debated issues such as immigration and emancipation and with tensions between New York's Republican-majority state legislature and Manhattan's Democratic machine. As a plainly clothed boy makes a speech, another boy seated at his feet gestures upward toward a handbill that reads "Meeting Tomorrow/Young America." Inspired by European youth movements of the 1830s, the Young Americans were founded in the mid-1840s and became a faction of the Democratic Party in the 1850s. They advocated free trade and westward expansion and supported the war for the sake of the Union's preservation, not the liberation of slaves. Le Clear underscores the nation's divisions of many issues in the vignette of the two wrestling boys, one in a blue jacket and the other wearing a white shirt and red vest.

[Oil on canvas, 67.3 x 86.4 cm]

Unknown Artist - An Old Woman Peeling Pears [after 1640s]

Unknown Artist - An Old Woman Peeling Pears [after 1640s], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

To the right of the woman is a greyhound, and to the left objects that include earthenware and brass pots and cauliflowers. The furniture in the background recurs in David Teniers 'An Old Peasant Caresses a Kitchen Maid in a Stable.' This composition was probably inspired by Teniers's style of the 1640s. It is reminiscent of a work by the artist's brother Juliaen Teniers the Younger.

[Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 66.5 cm]

Unknown Artist - An Old Man holding a Pilgrim-Bottle [c.1650s]

Unknown Artist - An Old Man holding a Pilgrim-Bottle [c.1650s], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

A pilgrim bottle could be attached by cords to the waist of a traveller or pilgrim. The subject may be the Greek philosopher Democritus, who is often shown grinning, worldly wise, at a globe that represents the world. Once thought to be Spanish, a recent attribution to Pietro Bellotti (1627 - 1700) has been proposed.

[Oil on canvas, 112.5 x 91.5 cm]

Claude-Marie Dubufe - The Surprise [c.1827]

Claude-Marie Dubufe - The Surprise [c.1827], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

A startled woman draws her shawl around her. Her pose is based on the famous classical sculpture, The Medici Venus. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828. Dubufe (1790 – 1864) was born in Paris. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He exhibited at the Salon from 1810.

[Oil on canvas, 65.2 x 54.3 cm]

Frits Thaulow - Night [1880s]

Frits Thaulow - Night [1880s] , originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

Frits Thaulow (Christiania, October 20, 1847 – November 5, 1906) was a Norwegian impressionist painter, best known for his naturalistic depictions of landscape. Thaulow was educated at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 1870-72, and from 1873-75 he studied with Hans Gude at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe from 1873 to 1875. After a stay in Skagen during the autumn of 1879, Thaulow returned to Norway in 1880. He became one of the leading young figures in the Norwegian art scene. He moved to France in 1892, living there until his death in 1906. 

[Oil on canvas, 61 x 82 cm]

Frits Thaulow - River [c.1883]

Frits Thaulow - River [c.1883], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

[Pastel on canvas, 60 x 81 cm]