Edmond DUPAIN 1847-1933 "Venice, boats docked" oil on canvas signed and located Venice bottom left, presented in a Louis XV style wooden and golden sctuc (dim: 97x84cm

French School at the beginning of the 19th century "portrait of a young man" oil on wood with oval view, frame in gilded stucco (67x78cm)

Gustav MUSS-ARNOLT (1858-1927) "Cat and its four kittens" oil on canvas signed lower right, stucco frame gold L XV style (dim: 65 x 77cm)

French school 19th "Portrait of a man riding on a background of landscape" oil on canvas in gilt stucco frame (104x91cm)
Provenance castle of Malicorne.

Maurice LELOIR 1853-1940 "The trader of rat traps" oil on his original canvas signed and dated 1879, molded frame with brass cartridge.

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.

Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG 1838-1904 attributed to, "animated seaside landscapes" oil pair on cardboard in gilded stucco frames

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