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John · February 2nd, 2011, 10:12 PM

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February 6th, 2011, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mp2deming

I have a painting like this. It is an oil. Approximately 30" x 45" in a heavy golden frame. This artist is K. Able, I believe the date on the painting is 1888.

If you would like, send me your e-mail address & I'll e-mail you a picture of it.

I inherited this painting from my grandfather who got in it lieu of rent for an apartment at 282 Central Park West during the depression and it has bee in my family ever since.

I have an oil painting by K. Able. it is a cabin by a lake with mountains in the background. It was purchased at The House of Oils,Inc. in 84 by Betty Gaither.I would like to know more about it, or someplace I could find out more. Ida Ingle--junida48@att.net

PaulineG · February 12th, 2011, 03:16 PM

Hi

I have an oil painting which I think is of Hong Kong harbour. It is signed K. Able HK with no date. Do you have any info about the artist? I would love to know more. Pauline G

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tommylr · February 23rd, 2011, 12:36 PM

I have the painting you're talking about. The one I have is in oils and bears the signature William Downs after Bonnat. I have tried to find out about it but have found little information. I believe William Downs may studied under Bonnat and some of his artwork seems to be Maryland scenic scenes. The painting is an exact replica of Leon Bonnat's Roman Girl at the Fountain. I would love to find out more about the painting so please email me with any information you may have.. Thanks

jmjonas · April 3rd, 2011, 09:50 AM

I have a oil paining of this, it is the same as the Bonnat that hangs in the New York Meausium of Art. Are you all saying that there are many copies of this same piece?

katherine · April 25th, 2011, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Amaurer42

I would like to find a painting, I believe in oil, but maybe also in watercolor
called either "Roman Girl at the Well", possibly by an artist named Farley,
but I'm not sure who the artist is. It could also be called "Italian Girl at the Well." My grandmother owned a reproduction many years ago. It is of a dark-haired young girl in a peasant dress standing on tiptoe at a well or fountain by a wall. Any information you can give would be appreciated. Thank you.
A. Maurer

I have a watercolor of a peasant girl leaning into the water fountain looking up,wearing a green skirt with a yellow embroiderd apron on her tip toes. I do not know the artist. I would like more information. I have seen a larger oil painting of the exact same scene.

September 28th, 2011, 02:47 PM

I am looking for a dark haired woman seated with back turned in a (I believe black) dress, leaning over and reaching towards the ground with her left arm. I believe the background is yellow. Very clean painting, not abstract. Do not have the artist nor painting name, but desperately trying to find it. Says it many years ago on a cruise.

TCDC · October 1st, 2011, 09:54 AM

Looking for info on this painting? Artist, content etc.
Thanks!

gjfaber · October 28th, 2011, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mp2deming

I have a painting like this. It is an oil. Approximately 30" x 45" in a heavy golden frame. This artist is K. Able, I believe the date on the painting is 1888.

If you would like, send me your e-mail address & I'll e-mail you a picture of it.

I inherited this painting from my grandfather who got in it lieu of rent for an apartment at 282 Central Park West during the depression and it has bee in my family ever since.

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Hi I'm from Australia. I too have a painting from K.Able.
Did you find any info on this person. Any information you can give would be
appreciated. gjfaber@bigpond.com

Thank you.
Gerard Faber.

JCG · November 2nd, 2011, 06:32 PM

I'm trying to identify a painting I saw years ago in a textbook. It was of a pretty young woman sitting, knees to the side I believe, perhaps a floral dress. The singularly striking thing about the woman was the look on her face. 'off, intense, perhaps mad. The eyes spoke most strongly of some affliction, and the painting was a study on the normality of the setting and the woman until one reaches her face, when the whole experience is redefined. I actually saw it in a nuerology textbook, siting it as an example of modern day knowledge reinterpreting a classic painting, perhaps being able to speculate on some underlining illness then undefined...

John · November 3rd, 2011, 01:55 AM

Can you give an estimate of when the painting would have been made? 19th century, Renaissance, mid-20th century, etc. The first thing that comes to mind is one of Andrew Wyeth's paintings of Anna Christina Olson, e.g.

http://www.andrewwyeth.org/images/ga...stina-1967.jpg

November 3rd, 2011, 06:09 AM

I do not know any further information, but it was almost certainly pre-industrial revolution, perhaps much more, given that it was an example of redefining something in light of more modern knowledge. Think Alice in wonderland wearing an expression better fit on Cinderella's stepmother....
thanks for taking a look.

domski · November 3rd, 2011, 06:24 AM

hi & thankyou for reading this,im in a dilemma which im sure you people can help.attached is a picture of a painting which im deperately trying to locate for home.ive found near decent what i would call copies on fine art america by (Dewa Putu Artanegara) decription arabian eyes but if you look close is definately not the same.please please can someone put this 2 year search to bed for me thankyou dominic

sophie1150 · December 26th, 2011, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mp2deming

I have a painting like this. It is an oil. Approximately 30" x 45" in a heavy golden frame. This artist is K. Able, I believe the date on the painting is 1888.

If you would like, send me your e-mail address & I'll e-mail you a picture of it.

I inherited this painting from my grandfather who got in it lieu of rent for an apartment at 282 Central Park West during the depression and it has bee in my family ever since.

Will you please send me a picture of the painting. Been trying to find this painting. Thanks

sophie1150 · December 26th, 2011, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amaurer42

I would like to find a painting, I believe in oil, but maybe also in watercolor
called either "Roman Girl at the Well", possibly by an artist named Farley,
but I'm not sure who the artist is. It could also be called "Italian Girl at the Well." My grandmother owned a reproduction many years ago. It is of a dark-haired young girl in a peasant dress standing on tiptoe at a well or fountain by a wall. Any information you can give would be appreciated. Thank you.
A. Maurer

I am also trying to find this painting. Have you had any luck?

Kathy Smyth · December 29th, 2011, 11:44 AM

I have a painting, inherited, it is oil on canvas and seems quite old.
The subject appears to be as family group, husband and wife and their mother and father with a little boy,They are all grouped around an anvil with what appears to be the ghost of another child just out of the light of the forge.
It is rather dark in colouring but the light is glowing on the subjects beautifully. Looks Dutch School. Any ideas?

John · December 29th, 2011, 02:11 PM

Does it look sort of like this painting by Joseph Wright of Derby? He did a number of paintings of workshop type scenes with an exaggerated Chiaroscuro effect.

http://www.anvilmag.com/0004cov.htm

Don't know of any that had a ghost in them, but that might be just the effect of the light.

February 1st, 2012, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi,
I also have a reproduction of this painting, purchased by my parents probably in the 1920's. It is called "Roman Girl at a Fountain," originally painted by Leon Bonnard in 1875. You can see it online at:
http://wwar.com/masters/b/bonnat-leon.html

According to the website, it is also displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, though I'm not clear whether it was a temporary exhibit or is in the Museum's permanent collection.

My repro has no other initials at the bottom.

I wonder how many of these reproductions are around?
Barbara D

I also have reproduction, mine is signed by Leon Bonnat, it also says Metropolitan Musem of Arts Series NO.22 01/08/1893.
I like to know if there is any value, I recevied it my grandmother.

March 3rd, 2012, 01:50 PM

Hope this helps. My mother painted three of these for her sons.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Leon+Bonnat's+Roman+Girl+at+the+Fountain& qpvt=Leon+Bonnat%27s+Roman+Girl+at+the+Fountain&FO RM=IGRE

“Roman Girl at a Fountain”
Léon Bonnat (French, Bayonne 1833–1922 Monchy-Saint-Eloi)
Date:1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 67 x 39 1/2 in. (170.2 x 100.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
Accession Number: 87.15.137

Leon Bonnat, the fashionable French portraitist of the last third of the nineteenth century, probably agreed to paint this genre scene for the New York collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe about 1873. It was delivered to her Madison Avenue home two years later, where it hung in her library, along with Cabanel's three-quarter-length portrait of Wolfe herself (on view in the Museum's 19th-century galleries), which was painted the following year. In October 1885, soon before she died, Wolfe moved "Roman Girl at a Fountain" to a specially constructed niche in her dining room.

April 3rd, 2011, 09:50 AM	#26
jmjonas Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 1	roman girl at a fountain I have a oil paining of this, it is the same as the Bonnat that hangs in the New York Meausium of Art. Are you all saying that there are many copies of this same piece?

September 28th, 2011, 02:47 PM	#28
Unregistered Posts: n/a	Help! Need to find this painting I am looking for a dark haired woman seated with back turned in a (I believe black) dress, leaning over and reaching towards the ground with her left arm. I believe the background is yellow. Very clean painting, not abstract. Do not have the artist nor painting name, but desperately trying to find it. Says it many years ago on a cruise.

December 29th, 2011, 11:44 AM	#37
Kathy Smyth Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 1	Does anyone recognise this painting I have a painting, inherited, it is oil on canvas and seems quite old. The subject appears to be as family group, husband and wife and their mother and father with a little boy,They are all grouped around an anvil with what appears to be the ghost of another child just out of the light of the forge. It is rather dark in colouring but the light is glowing on the subjects beautifully. Looks Dutch School. Any ideas?

March 3rd, 2012, 01:50 PM	#40
Unregistered Posts: n/a	“Roman Girl at a Fountain” Hope this helps. My mother painted three of these for her sons. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Leon+Bonnat's+Roman+Girl+at+the+Fountain& qpvt=Leon+Bonnat%27s+Roman+Girl+at+the+Fountain&FO RM=IGRE “Roman Girl at a Fountain” Léon Bonnat (French, Bayonne 1833–1922 Monchy-Saint-Eloi) Date:1875 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 67 x 39 1/2 in. (170.2 x 100.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Accession Number: 87.15.137 Leon Bonnat, the fashionable French portraitist of the last third of the nineteenth century, probably agreed to paint this genre scene for the New York collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe about 1873. It was delivered to her Madison Avenue home two years later, where it hung in her library, along with Cabanel's three-quarter-length portrait of Wolfe herself (on view in the Museum's 19th-century galleries), which was painted the following year. In October 1885, soon before she died, Wolfe moved "Roman Girl at a Fountain" to a specially constructed niche in her dining room.

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PaulineG Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 2	Hi I have an oil painting which I think is of Hong Kong harbour. It is signed K. Able HK with no date. Do you have any info about the artist? I would love to know more. Pauline G

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February 23rd, 2011, 12:36 PM	#25
tommylr Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV Posts: 1	I have the painting you're talking about. The one I have is in oils and bears the signature William Downs after Bonnat. I have tried to find out about it but have found little information. I believe William Downs may studied under Bonnat and some of his artwork seems to be Maryland scenic scenes. The painting is an exact replica of Leon Bonnat's Roman Girl at the Fountain. I would love to find out more about the painting so please email me with any information you may have.. Thanks

November 2nd, 2011, 06:32 PM	#31
JCG Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 1	I'm trying to identify a painting I saw years ago in a textbook. It was of a pretty young woman sitting, knees to the side I believe, perhaps a floral dress. The singularly striking thing about the woman was the look on her face. 'off, intense, perhaps mad. The eyes spoke most strongly of some affliction, and the painting was a study on the normality of the setting and the woman until one reaches her face, when the whole experience is redefined. I actually saw it in a nuerology textbook, siting it as an example of modern day knowledge reinterpreting a classic painting, perhaps being able to speculate on some underlining illness then undefined...

November 3rd, 2011, 01:55 AM	#32
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	Can you give an estimate of when the painting would have been made? 19th century, Renaissance, mid-20th century, etc. The first thing that comes to mind is one of Andrew Wyeth's paintings of Anna Christina Olson, e.g. http://www.andrewwyeth.org/images/ga...stina-1967.jpg

November 3rd, 2011, 06:09 AM	#33
Unregistered Posts: n/a	I do not know any further information, but it was almost certainly pre-industrial revolution, perhaps much more, given that it was an example of redefining something in light of more modern knowledge. Think Alice in wonderland wearing an expression better fit on Cinderella's stepmother.... thanks for taking a look.

December 29th, 2011, 02:11 PM	#38
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	Does it look sort of like this painting by Joseph Wright of Derby? He did a number of paintings of workshop type scenes with an exaggerated Chiaroscuro effect. http://www.anvilmag.com/0004cov.htm Don't know of any that had a ghost in them, but that might be just the effect of the light.