Léon-François Comerre

Figure of Man - Original Drawing by Léon François Comerre - Late 19th Century

Late 19th Century

Gentleman is an Original Drawing in pencil realized by Eugène Giraud in the Late 19th Century. Applied on a Cardboard, included a blue Passepartout: 41 x 33 cm Good conditions. Sta...

Figure is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an unknown artist artist of the early 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower left. Good conditions. Applied on a Passepa...

Figure is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Alexandre Bida (1823-1895). Good conditions. No signature. F. Alexandre Bida (1813–1895) was a Frenc...

Naked Man Standing is an original artwork realized by George Henri Tribout. Original pencil drawing on paper. Signed G.T. This interesting drawing shows a beautiful nude of a man....

This powerful antique life drawing is a masterclass in the late 19th-century French Academic tradition. Rendered in charcoal and soft tonal washes, the work depicts a male nude in a ...

A Finely Drawn 1950s Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking pastel drawing by Haydon sho...

Graphite on laid paper, signed verso and paper watermarks and atelier stamp Image size: 23 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches (60.25 x 43.5 cm) Gilt Whistler frame Leon Bellemont Born on August 20, 1866, in the family home on rue du Grand-Cloître, Léon Bellemont studied from 1875 to 1883 at the Diderot college, where he was an excellent student. At the same time, he joined the municipal drawing school, where his exceptional predispositions were very quickly noted. In 1884, at the age of 18, Léon Bellemont left Langres to join Paris and its National School of Decorative Arts, then the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. There, he followed the teaching of Léon Bonnat, a renowned portraitist, and obtained his first rewards and several prizes. It was in 1892, however, that his artistic career took off, with his first participation in the Salon des artistes français, where he exhibited until 1956. A landscape and impressionist painter, particularly impressing marine worlds, Léon Bellemont stayed more and more regularly in Brittany at the beginning of the 20th century, where he painted numerous paintings. His notoriety grew, as did the profits from his sales, and the State itself ended up placing a few orders with him. His work “The Breton Faith” was, for example, acquired by the museum in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Subsequently, always in search of inspiration, Léon Bellemont travelled extensively. He was in Bruges from 1907 to 1909, then traveled across France for several years participating in exhibitions. During the First World War, he settled in Algiers where he remained for several years. He then returned to Paris, worked extensively there and achieved great fame. A socialite, he frequented salons and regularly received his friends Jules Adler...

A delicate academic study by the artist Pierre Neveu (b.1929). Signed. On laid. Image size: 63 x 47.5cm.