Emil Reynier 1836-1927 "Banquet Scene" oil on canvas signed dated 1889 lower right, presented in its important gilded and carved wooden frame (dim: 217x311cm)
Painter of portraits and history, he stays in Vienna and Prague, our painting has old exhibition labels, probably exhibited at exhibitions.

Pierre Auguste BRUNET HOUARD 1829-1922 "portrait of parrots" oil on canvas signed lower left, stucco frame1800

French School XIX "Portrait of dandy on his gray horse at the trot" oil on canvas, gilded stucco frame

Charles Paul LANDON 1760-1826 attributed to, "portrait of Procurator" oil on canvas in a gilt frame of Empire period.

Italian school, end of XIXe-beginning of XXe century, "Landscape with birds, fruits and flowers" Oil on canvas

Jacobus Josephus EECKHOUT 1793-1861 "Young woman and her servant with parrot in an interior" Oil on wood signed lower left, presented in gilt stucco frame (102x120cm)

Antoine Van DYCK after "Portrait of the Children of Charles I of England" copy of the famous painting kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin Oil on canvas presented in a wooden frame and gilded stucco

Léon ESPINASSE XIX-XX "Two dogs of Mr Le Gaudy" Oil on wood signed lower right titled on the back, gilt stucco frame (48x41)

Italian School of the nineteenth "View of the Bay of Naples" oil on canvas, lacquered wood frame molded (modern 74x48cm)

Lionel ROYER 1852-1926 "Portrait of Charles Vesins in front of Zouaves" oil on canvas signed lower right in its frame in gold stucco (65X94)

Victor de Grandchamp XIX "Still life with pomegranates faience and Luth" oil on canvas, (rentoilage) signed dated 1854 on the top right.

Adèle Romanée ROMANY 1769-1846 workshop "Portrait of Auguste Vestris" oil on canvas original and its Empire period frame (dim: 43x51cm) Natural son of Gaëtan Vestris and Marie Allard, Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, said Auguste Vestris and nicknamed Vestr'Allard, is a French dancer born in Paris on March 27, 1760 and died in Paris on December 5, 1842. Trained by his father, he started at the Paris Opera in 1772 and is engaged as a soloist in the Ballet in 1776. His brilliant career takes place mainly in Paris, but he also performs in Lyon, Montpellier and Bordeaux, as well as at King's Theater in London. It is Pierre Gardel who will offer him his most beautiful roles, especially in Psyche, Télémaque on the island of Calypso and La Dansomanie. He retired in 1816 to devote himself to teaching dance at the Paris Opera, and become one of the most renowned teachers of all time. Inventor of a multitude of new steps, Auguste Vestris is among those who, first, were able to integrate the old dance of the eighteenth century "down to earth", brilliant and fast, with new steps of great elevation (big allegro) aroused by the musical advances of the time, including those of Beethoven. Among his students, the Franco-Danish choreographer Auguste Bournonville (1805-1879). The latter devotes several very interesting and detailed pages in his memoirs My Theater Life, reissued in London in English in 1968. The act I ballet Bournonville The Conservatoire, still danced nowadays, reproduces faithfully a lesson given by Vestris at the Paris Opera in 1820, and still remains, for our generation, an extreme technical requirement. Nicknamed "the god of dance", Auguste Vestris has marked the spirits and the history of dance by his interpretation of the gavotte of Grétry Panurge's operatic comedy on the island of lanterns, in 1785: since then, this passage is known as the gavotte of Vestris.