Segoura Fine Art

The Galerie Segoura stand will be showcasing the treasures of 18th and 19th century European painting (by French, Belgian, Italian and Spanish painters). The gallery is keen to showcase 18th-century paintings, and will be exhibiting four works by Charles-François Lacroix, known as LACROIX de MARSEILLE (Marseille 1700-1782 Berlin), a major 18th-century painter renowned for his detailed seascapes, and a sublime Portuguese harbour landscape by Jean Pillement (1728-1808).  Eighteenth-century landscape painting is a major focus of the BRAFA exhibition, with works by Hubert Robert, known for his landscapes, architectural scenes, picturesque ruins and mysterious, evocative atmospheres. 

19th-century works include landscapes, genre scenes, portraits and Symbolist paintings. An extraordinary work, unknown to the art market and exhibited for the first time: Allégories de la Force et du Droit, c. 1872, by Charles Revel (1829-1888) or the struggle of Prussia overthrowing France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Charles Revel illustrates the words given to the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck: "Strength prevails over Law". He succeeded in sublimating the French defeat into a moral victory over an adversary caricatured by a carnivorous black eagle. Symbolism will also be represented by works by Jules Clarin, Nicolas-Auguste Laurens, Ange Supparo and others, as well as magnificent portraits by Franz-Xaver Winterhalter of the Countess Esher, the painter Aimée Brune-Pagès and Auguste Loustaunau. Finally, paintings depicting the Belle Époque and Parisian life: various portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, including one painted by Louise Abbema as an illustration...