Alfred Boisseau Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Alfred Boisseau Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 19, 2021
Boisseau, Alfred - Portrait de Pierre-Étienne Picault (1809-1885) - 1883
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Boisseau, Alfred (1923-1903) Portrait de Pierre-Étienne Picault (1809-1885) (1883) Description (FR): Huile sur toile, signée et datée en bas à gauche ABoisseau 1883 Né en 1809 à Courtenay (France), Paul-Étienne Picault immigre à Montréal en 1833. Exerçant en tant que médecin, il ouvre une pharmacie en 1838 et prend part à la vie montréalaise. Il participera par exemple à la création de la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste en 1834 ainsi qu'à la fondation du Collège des médecins du Bas-Canada en 1847. Il sera également nommé vice-consul de France en 1869. Il meurt en 1885 et sa pharmacie sera reprise par son associé, le pharmacien Joseph Contant (1848-1938). Description (EN): Oil on canvas, signed on lower left ABoisseau 1883 Born in 1809 in Courtenay (France), Paul-Étienne Picault immigrated to Montreal in 1833. Working as a doctor, he opened a pharmacy in 1838 and took part in Montreal life. For example, he participated in the creation of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1834 as well as in the founding of the Collège des médecins du Bas-Canada in 1847. He was also appointed vice-consul of France in 1869. He died in 1885 and his pharmacy will be taken over by his partner, pharmacist Joseph Contant (1848-1938). Dimension (PO): 27" x 22" Dimension (CM): 68.6 x 55.9 cm Rapport de condition: Sur demande, nous nous ferons un plaisir de répondre à vos questions de manière détaillée. Condition report: Upon request, We will gladly answer all your inquiries in a detailed manner.
Champagne Auctions
May. 18, 2021
Boisseau, Alfred - Portrait de Pierre-Étienne Picault (1809-1885) - 1883
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Boisseau, Alfred (1923-1903) Portrait de Pierre-Étienne Picault (1809-1885) (1883) Description (FR): Huile sur toile, signée et datée en bas à gauche ABoisseau 1883 Description (EN): Oil on canvas, signed on lower left ABoisseau 1883 Dimension (PO): 27" x 22" Dimension (CM): 68.58 x 55.88 cm Rapport de condition: Sur demande, nous nous ferons un plaisir de répondre à vos questions de manière détaillée. Condition report: Upon request, We will gladly answer all your inquiries in a detailed manner.
Champagne Auctions
Dec. 13, 2017
ALFRED W. BOISSEAU | Le Crépuscule (The Twilight)
Est: £6,000 - £8,000
bronze, dark brown patina
Sotheby's
Dec. 11, 2016
Alfred Boisseau (French/American, 1823-1901)
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Alfred Boisseau (French/American, 1823-1901), "Miss Mary Tanner (b. 1833/1834), Waubun Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana", 1849, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left center, exhibition label (probably New Orleans Museum of Art) en verso, titled on brass artist plaque, 39-1/2" x 31-1/2". Presented in a giltwood frame. Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter; Ex-collection Don Didier, New Orleans, Louisiana. Illustrated: Pennington, Estill Curtis, Down River: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950 (Pelican Publishing: Gretna, LA, 1991), p. 2. Rarely is a portrait from Alfred Boisseau?ÇÖs brief tenure in Louisiana "discovered", even rarer is its sale at auction. Since 1976, only eight recorded portraits have been sold at auction, and only one of those is of a Louisiana belle of equal execution- Portrait of a Young Lady, possibly Mrs. Alfred LeMore, nee Marie Xavier Athenais Chretien (b. 1830). The portrait offered here of Miss Mary Tanner painted in September, 1849, is both one of the first portraits Boisseau is known to have done after his return from France and one of the last Louisiana ones he painted before he embarked for New York. Boisseau, a native of France, studied under Paul Delaroche, a Neo-Classical painter of historical and mythological scenes, before debuting at the Paris Salon in 1842. Boisseau, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp and Jacques Amans sought a more lucrative market abroad in the "New World." Classical style paintings, marked by strong lighting, fine detail and a polished finish, appealed to the burgeoning French Creole class of merchants and plantation owners eager to commemorate their success. Boisseau's early portraits very much belong to this tradition- the sitters rendered at three-quarter to full profile occupy the entire picture plane dominating the landscape, fields and finery before which they are placed, evoking a sense of pride and mastery. Miss Tanner, though a mere girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, presents a commanding stature with her black hoop-skirt, piercing eyes and hair, framed before a window with lush crimson drapery swept aside to reveal an impressive, though diminutive, landscape of Live Oaks and a family plot loosely painted in tertiary colors. As the portrait, painted at Waubun Plantation, indicates, Miss Tanner comes from an illustrious family, one that along with the Verrets, and Thibodauxs, had been instrumental in the development of Terrebonne parish, which was partitioned from Lafourche in 1822. The sitter, Mary, was the fifth daughter of Lemuel Tanner (1786-1843) and Marie Agnes Celeste Belanger (1797-1864). Mr. Tanner, born in Screven, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the War of 1812 in the Seventh Regiment of the Louisiana Militia. In 1814, he settled in Lafourche and married Belanger, who was jointly related through blood and marriage to the Thibodaux family. The Belanger and Tanner families were wealthy planters, who owned lands in both parishes that adjoined near Bayou Terrebonne. In the 1860 census, Mrs. Tanner recorded the Waubun Plantation real estate value at $1000,000; personal property at $230,000. The Plantation (also near Bayou Terrebonne) was purchased in 1845, following the death of Lemuel Tanner in 1843, and remained in the family until after the death of Celeste in 1864. A decade before her death, Mrs. Tanner gifted two large parcels of the land to the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railway, which would later become greatly contested in the Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1895 and 1911 when the title was acquired by riverboat Captain John T. Moore (a childhood friend of Mark Twain), who owned the plantation from 1895-1916. The Tanner?ÇÖs land (via succession) was wrought with legal issues. In 1852 the Supreme Court of Louisiana overturned a previous ruling and mandated that restitution be paid to Lemuel Tanner?ÇÖs heirs that listed Mary, her mother and eight of her sisters and brothers. Mary's sister Rosella (b. 1830) was not noted as an heir, because she died in 1846, leaving her older sister Elizabeth (b. 1823) and younger sisters Brigitte (b. 1836) and Louisa (b. 1840) in the home at the time of the portrait commission. What became of Mary after 1852 is shrouded in mystery. Marriage certificates issued in Louisiana for women named Mary Tanner (born 1833-1835) list that a Mary Ester Tanner, born 1834, (Ester is also the name and middle name of two of her sisters) married Edmund W. Barnes (b. 1828) of New Orleans in 1856, and later Oscar Cheney (b. 1829) of Magnolia Plantation in Rapides Parish in 1869. According to periodicals published in the Alexandria Weekly Town Talk, she died a few years before her daughter Rosa's wedding to Martin Lacaze in 1895. References: Southern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, vol. 17-18. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1895, p. 319-321; Louisiana Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1852, vol. 7. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1895. p. 672-674. Ibid. 1909, vol. 126. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1911, p. 844-902; Louisiana Democrat 9 January 1895: 3; "Descendants of Nicholas Lanier". User Trees, Geneaology.com. Accessed: Nov. 11, 2016.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Nov. 04, 2015
Alfred W. Boisseau, "Flood of the Mississippi"
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Alfred W. Boisseau, "Flood of the Mississippi" oil on canvas, 1896. Signed and dated lower right, "A Boisseau / 1896". Canvas: 37"H x 52.75"W; Frame: 51.25"H x 67.25"W. PROVENANCE: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York. Altmayer Limited Partnership, Mobile, Alabama (until 2003). Hammer Galleries, New York (label verso). From the Collection of Sam Wyly, Dallas, Texas (acquired from the above in 2003). EXHIBITED: "Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Paintings, 1800-1950," New Orleans Museum of Art, 1990. LITERATURE: Ashurst, Suzanne and Jessie Halverson, "Jay P. Altmayer's Princely Digs," Mobile Bay Monthly, 8 (October 1973), ill. p. 52. Pennington, Estill Curtis, "Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Paintings, 1800-1950," Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 1991, p. 107, color ill. p. 107. NOTE: Although little is known about Parisian born Alfred Boisseau, his time spent in New Orleans during the 1840s would serve as inspiration for many of his works, like this powerful piece titled, "Flood of the Mississippi". Executed in 1896, Boisseau illustrates a dramatic, emotion filled scene of a family being rescued from the roof of their home by a rowboat. While natural disasters were not uncommon in this region of the Deep South, this particular image is thought to allude to the disastrous flood of the Mississippi in 1882. Alfred W. Boisseau (French, 1823-1901).
Dallas Auction Gallery
Sep. 13, 2014
Alfred L. Boisseau (French/American, 1823-1901)
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Alfred L. Boisseau (French/American, 1823-1901), "Woman with a Basket on her Head in a Tropical Landscape", 1866, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, artist's information on paper label en verso of stretchers, 13 in. x 9 1/2 in., period frame
Neal Auction Company
Mar. 16, 2014
Alfred L. Boisseau (USA/Louisiana, 1823-1901)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Alfred L. Boisseau (American/Louisiana, 1823-1901), "Portrait of Edward Boisseau, the Artist's Son", oil on artist's board, signed and dated lower right, 12-3/4" x 17-1/2". Framed.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Jan. 11, 2014
A. Boisseau O/C Lincoln Portrait
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Alfred L. Boisseau (1823-1901) Oil on Canvas Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln is signed in the lower right corner A. Boisseau, 1865. Canvas is relined, has few damages to the front of the original canvas across the nose and lips and the background to the right of the figure's ear. 30 in. high x 25 in. deep.
Fontaine's Auction Gallery
Nov. 14, 2013
ALFRED BOISSEAU (CANADIAN, 1823-1901)
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
ALFRED BOISSEAU (CANADIAN, 1823-1901) WAITING AT THE FOUNTAIN; OIL ON ACADEMY BOARD; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; SIGNED AND TITLED VERSO 18" x 12" - 45.7 x 30.5 cm.
Waddington's
Oct. 13, 2013
Alfred Boisseau (French/New Orleans, 1823-1901)
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Alfred Boisseau (French/New Orleans, 1823-1901), "Portrait of a Creole Gentleman", 1848, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 24-1/4" x 20-1/4". Attractively framed. Provenance: Collection of Phyllis Hudson, New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Nov. 17, 2012
Alfred L. Boisseau (French/New Orleans, 1823)
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Alfred L. Boisseau (French/New Orleans, 1823-1901), "Portraits of a Choctaw Indian Man and Woman", two oils on academy board, signed lower left and lower right respectively, Morgenson Wunderlich Galleries, Ltd., Chicago; The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, South Carolina; and remnant of Devoe & Co. labels en verso, 10 5/8 in. x 9 1/4 in, framed. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York City; Morgenson Wunderlich Galleries, Ltd., Chicago; The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, South Carolina Note: Alfred Boisseau was born in Paris where he studied painting with the noted academic artist Paul Delaroche. He worked in New Orleans at various times from 1845 to 1865. During his first visit in 1845-47, he painted two works with Louisiana subjects which he then exhibited at the 1848 Paris Salon. One of these works, Marche d'Indiens de la Louisiane (Louisiana Indians Walking along a Bayou), 1847, is now in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. A major painting and iconic image of mid-19th century Louisiana, the work shows Boisseau's interest in the distinctive Louisiana landscape and its native inhabitants. The pair of paintings offered here are sensitively rendered portraits of a youngChoctaw man and woman. Showing him bust-length with a colorful scarf and bolo, he wears an outfit indicative of the European influence that affected the Choctaws. A teepee is painted behind him with the flat delta landscape... Starting Bid: $17000
Neal Auction Company
May. 31, 2012
Alfred Boisseau 1823 - 1901 Canadian oil on academy board Waiting at the Fountain
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Alfred Boisseau 1823 - 1901 Canadian oil on academy board Waiting at the Fountain 18 x 12 inches 45.7 x 30.5 centimeters signed and on verso signed, titled and inscribed "Montreal" Provenance:Private Collection, Ontario
Heffel
Dec. 03, 2011
Alfred Boisseau (1823-1901, New Orleans), "Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman," 1867, oval oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r., presented in a period gilt and gesso floral relief decorated frame, H.- 17 1/4 in., W.- 14 1/4 in.
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Condition is not stated in the description of the item. The absence of a condition report does not mean that the item is free of damage or condition issues. Some items do show signs of age or wear. CCAG Strongly suggests that you do not bid without requesting a condition report. Requests for condition reports will not be honored after 5 p.m. CST Wednesday, November 30th.
Crescent City Auction Gallery
Sep. 22, 2011
ALFRED W. BOISSEAU INDIAN CAMP ON BRANDON HILLS,
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ALFRED W. BOISSEAU INDIAN CAMP ON BRANDON HILLS, oil on board; signed 18 1/4 ins x 24 1/4 ins; 45.6 cms x 60.6 cms
Waddington's
Dec. 17, 2010
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
THE PHOTOGRAPHER ALFRED W. BOISSEAU FRENCH 1823 - 1901 signed A. Boisseau and dated 1895 (lower left) oil on canvas laid down on board 36 ¾ by 52 ¾ in. (93.3 by 134 cm)
Sotheby's
Nov. 23, 2010
ALFRED W. BOISSEAU 1823 - 1901
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
ALFRED W. BOISSEAU 1823 - 1901 INDIAN CAMP ON BRANDON HILLS signed lower right A. Boisseau oil on board 46.4 by 61.6 cm. 18 ¼ by 24 ¼ in.
Sotheby's
Jul. 15, 2009
Framed Oil on Canvas Barn Scene with Sheep Attributed to Alfred L. Boisseau (Franco/American, 1823-1901),...
Est: $400 - $600
Framed Oil on Canvas Barn Scene with Sheep Attributed to Alfred L. Boisseau (Franco/American, 1823-1901), inscribed "A Boisseau" l.l. (tears with surrounding losses, scattered losses and lifting).
Skinner