SOLD
Country of origin: United States
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed centre lower right
Dated: c. 1890
Condition: Unlined original canvas - old repair verso
Size: 19.00" x 12.00" (48.3cm x 30.5cm)
Provenance: Private french collection
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£5,950.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£3,250.00
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Pierret et Monocole
by Armand Francois Henrion
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£8,400.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1897
Oil on panel
£5,750.00
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The Young Hunter
by Victor Gabriel Gilbert
1946
Oil on canvas
£5,200.00
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Le Coucher
by Pierre De Belay
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£4,950.00
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Nu Couche
by Fernand Toussaint
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,750.00
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Joyeux pierrot
by Armand Francois Henrion
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,950.00
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Pierrot Surpris!
by Armand Francois Henrion
Frederick Bridgman started out in 1863 as an engraver for the American Banknote Company and went on to produce steel engravings. He went to Paris in 1866 and worked in Gérome's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. He spent time in Brittany at Pont-Aven until 1871, before going to North Africa and Egypt in 1872 and remaining there for five years. He took part regularly in the Paris Salons, notably the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français. He also exhibited in London at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery. Bridgman exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, 1889 and 1900, receiving a silver medal at each of the exhibitions. He was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur in 1878 and was made Officier in 1907. He became a member of the National Academy, New York, in 1881, and of the Société des Artistes Peintres, Paris.
Bridgman's travels in North Africa and Egypt brought about a radical change in his palette, which became much paler. He was also a photographer and often worked from his photographs when painting, depicting a world of richly adorned women in veils and using transparent effects and white on white. As well as his scenes of everyday life, Bridgman also painted historical subjects from Ancient Egypt and Assyria, such as Pharaoh Crossing the Red Sea and Royal Entertainment at Nineveh. A cultivated man, Bridgman studied musical composition with Charles-Marie Widor and wrote several books on art. In New York in 1890, he published Winters in Algiers, which he illustrated with his paintings.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Boston (MFA): Armenian Woman (1882, oil on canvas)
Detroit (IA): Moorish Interior (c. 1875-1879, oil on canvas)
Liverpool (Walker AG): The Diligence
New York (Brooklyn Mus.): An Interesting Game (1881, oil on canvas)
New York (National Academy of Design Mus.): Oriental Interior (1882, oil on canvas)
St Petersburg (Gosudarstvennyj Russkij Muz.): Pharaoh Engulfed by the Red Sea; Calm, Coast of Algeria; Bacchantes
1874
Oil on canvas
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Kiosk of Emperor Trajan on Philae Island
by Frederick Arthur Bridgman - SOLD
c. 1890
Oil on canvas
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Nude
by Frederick Arthur Bridgman - SOLD
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
SOLD
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Sunset
by Frederick Arthur Bridgman - SOLD
1874
Oil on canvas
SOLD
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Thebes – Colossi of Memnon – 1874
by Frederick Arthur Bridgman - SOLD