Stanisława Kszetanowicz

Naturalistic Fanciful Townscape

20th Century

Naturalistic fall landscape with beautiful green hues. There is a small man in the foreground of the painting. The work is framed in a painted wooden frame with a red, slanted greek key pattern. The artists' name is signed on a gold plate in the bottom center of the frame. Dimensions without Frame: H 12.5 in x W 15.5 in. Artist Biography: From Switzerland, he became noted for his paintings of Alpine mountains, although he also painted scenes from his travels in Germany and especially Italy. He studied with landscape painter, Francois Diday, and by 1835, had sold a landscape to the museum in Bern. He also exhibited with the Paris Salons beginning in the late 1830s. Calame lived most of his life in Geneva, but in 1863, he moved to the French Riviera for health reasons. His composition method was often placing a large clump of trees at one side of the painting and "a sharply receding diagonal leads away from it to a view, often of mountains in the far distance." (83) It was a motif that had much appeal to American collectors of that era, and one of his landscapes, a part of the bequest of James Suydam...

Stormy landscape scene in which a Cupid-like figure seen in the clouds appearing to have shot a number of wounded and dying men in the foreground. The men have a number of women and ...

Architectural landscape painting by Anthony V. Martin of a white house with a lovely green velvet mat and a gold frame. Artist Biography: Anthony V. Martin grew up in east Texas. H...

Naturalistic painting of a rural farm landscape with a barn that has the iconic red Coca-Cola sign painted on the side. Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner and currently ...

C. 20th Century European Countryside Scene / Oil on Canvas Board ( NO visible Signature )

A commanding view over a vast city landscape, painted in an impressionistic light with soft sunset hues. Unsigned. Well-presented in a decorative gilt-effect frame. On board.

This charming landscape painting captures a serene path lined with trees, leading towards a sun-drenched Mediterranean town. The artist's loose brushstrokes and choice of colour effe...

Work on canvas