Pierre OUTIN 1840-1899 "portrait of the dog Starck" oil on canvas signed lower right.

Italian school late nineteenth "Allegory of painting" canvas imitating the mosaic in a black lacquered frame decorated with rosettes (107cm x 189cm)

Anatole DEVOSGE Dijon 1770-1850 "Alcibiades taking his wife Hipparete before the archon" oil on canvas in his original frame, picture of the Salon of 1801.
Son of Claude-François III Devosge, he was the pupil of his father and then of David. His first works "Sappho inspired by love" 1795 and "innocence in danger" engraved by Copia in 1798 reveal the influence Of Prud'hon. Then he undergoes the ascendancy of David and conforms to the theories of his master. At the end of his life he seems to have been sensitive to romantic fashion.
He succeeded his father in 1811 as director of the School of Fine Arts of Dijon where he taught drawing, this museum exhibits some neo-classical sketches painted by him.
Our monumental work with the theatrical figures: Alcibiades and Hipparetus oil on canvas appeared in the salon of 1801 according to the preparatory drawing wash of bistre on cream white paper signed and dated A.DEVOSGE 1800 and preserved in the museum of Dijon
The theme:
David imposed upon his pupils the reading of Plutarch to inspire male virtues, and induce them to choose from the lives of illustrious men scenes worthy of great painting.
Here is the anecdote narrated by Plutarch:
Hipparteus, a woman of great virtue, who loved her husband, grieved over his wrongs against her, and his trade with foreign and Athenian courtesans. "She went out of her house and fled to her brother's house, The divorce was to be handed over to the archon, not by other hands, but by the woman in person: Hipparteus went to the magistrate to obey the law Alcibiades rushes in: he seizes her by the middle of her body, and takes her to his house through the public square, without anybody daring to hinder her or take her away from her, and she remained in her husband's house until her death "
Anatole Devosge transcribed this text with scrupulous fidelity, on this work to the left the archon sitting on a platform, expects to receive the act of divorce. In the center, Alcibiades seized his wife and is about to win. Around them, the crowd marks his surprise as a man with a long beard (Socrates also lover of the beautiful Alcibiades) encourages a young couple, in the background the Acropolis.

TOMA de ANNUNCIACAO 1818-1879 "Roosters chickens and ducks" pair of paintings oil on canvas (rentoilage) signed dated 1858 lower right carved wooden frames (104x128)

Italian school of the early nineteenth copy after Raphael "The beautiful planter or Virgin and child with the little Saint John the Baptist" Oil on canvas

Joseph Auguste KNIP 1777-1847 "Sheep in a landscape" oil on canvas signed and dated down right 1825

French Scholl Paul Rossert 1851 1918 attribued to "Elegant on the beach of Trouville" oil on canvas frame gilded stucco (dim85x56cm)

DUDGEON James Ec English XIXth "Portraits of horses SUNBEAM and ANNIE" pair oil on canvas signed dated1882 bottom left, frame gilded stucco

French School of the nineteenth "for animated characters palace inside" Oil on canvas, in a gilded stucco frame

Jean BENNER 1836-1909 "Elegant and her dog" oil on canvas signed lower left

ROBERT Alexandre Nestor Nicolas 1817-1890 Ec Belge "The singing lesson monks" Oil on mahogany panel frame gilded stucco 93x79cm

French School late nineteenth "Putti" oil on canvas in a lacquered wooden frame richly carved rock.