{"title":"Impressionist Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Impressionist and plein-air paintings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, each signed, authenticated and ready to hang. From Salon exhibitors who painted alongside Monet and Pissarro to the plein-air tradition that carried the language of light into the 1900s, every work in this collection is an original oil, framed and shipped free from France to the United States and Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew to the school? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/art-movements-schools\/impressionism\"\u003eImpressionism\u003c\/a\u003e and meet \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/artist-directory\/tagged\/impressionism\"\u003eour Impressionist painters\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cals-haystacks-impressionist-oil-canvas-framed-19thc","title":"Signed Oil Painting, Haystacks Landscape by Adolphe Felix Cals (1810-1880), Listed French Impressionist, Oil on Canvas","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGolden Stacks in a Low Normandy Light\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo haystacks sit heavy in the foreground, their rounded shapes catching a warm golden light that separates them sharply from the cooler tones of the field behind. Cals painted them with real weight. The straw reads as solid, textured mass rather than as a flat shape, and you can see where he built up the surface with short, thick strokes that follow the curve of each stack. The ground around them is a patchwork of green and brown, handled loosely enough that you feel the unevenness of the terrain without seeing any single blade of grass. Behind the stacks, the landscape opens up into a flat, wide horizon under a sky that takes up nearly half the canvas. The sky itself is layered: a warm gray-blue in the upper register that lightens toward the horizon into the kind of pale, luminous band you get in northern France on a late summer afternoon. This is a small painting, but the composition has a sense of space that feels much larger than the canvas. Cals understood how to use a low horizon line and a wide format to give a seven-inch-tall painting the breathing room of a much bigger landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdolphe Felix Cals (1810-1880) was a French painter and printmaker who occupies a distinctive position in the history of Impressionism. He began as a student of Leon Cogniet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and spent years working in a conventional academic manner before gradually shifting toward plein-air painting and the direct study of light that would define his later career. By the 1860s and 1870s he was painting alongside the Impressionists and exhibiting with them. Cals participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and continued to show with the group in subsequent years. He was a close friend of Johan Barthold Jongkind and, through him, connected to the wider circle of painters working on the Normandy coast and in the Ile-de-France. His work is held in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, and other French public collections. 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He wears a dark coat or smock over a white collar, and his brown hair is parted and brushed to the side. The background is built with broad, muted strokes of olive and gray that frame the face without competing for attention. The paint is applied in thick, confident touches across the forehead, cheeks, and collar, with visible brushwork throughout. The signature \"grun\" is placed at the lower left in white paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJules-Alexandre Grün (1868-1938) was a French painter and illustrator born in Paris to an Alsatian family. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and became known for his large-scale paintings of Parisian social gatherings, banquets, and public celebrations. His major works were exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais, where he received multiple awards. Grün maintained a property called \"Les Girouettes\" in Le Breuil-en-Auge, Normandy, where he painted in a looser, more private register. This portrait of his son belongs to that personal body of work, far from the grand social scenes that built his public reputation. 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The palette is built on earthy tones with touches of green and muted purple, and the brushwork is loose and textured in the manner of late 19th century French Impressionism. The composition is horizontal and quiet, focused on the light and atmosphere of the landscape rather than on figures or narrative. The painting is signed in the bottom left corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937) was born in France and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where he became a recognized figure in the American art scene. He exhibited in both France and the United States, and his landscapes show the influence of the Barbizon school and early Impressionism. His work is held in several American collections. 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