The Prouté family offers for sale over ten thousand prints and drawings, old master, modern and contemporary works covering six hundred years of history in images. Unique or multiple works, objects by famous artists or young talented creators, they have all been selected using demanding criteria based on quality. All periods, all drawing and printmaking techniques, all subjects are included, allowing a broad variety of choice for the client, with a wide range of prices.
At 74 rue de Seine, connoisseurs will find works by old masters, studies from the 19th century and contemporary compositions. The Galerie Paul Prouté has placed an emphasis on Italian baroque and classical French drawings. Defenders of Romanticism, Orientalist painters, landscape artists of the Barbizon School, the Impressionists, the Nabis, the School of Pont-Aven, the Surrealists... each movement is represented by several personalities. Among major figures of the history of art exhibited regularly at the gallery, artistic dynasties such as Bassano, Zuccaro, Coypel, Tiepolo, as well as famous printmakers Stefano Della Bella, Franceschini called Il Volterrano, Hubert Robert, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Jongkind, Denis, Delaunay, Estève, Marfaing, Debré, Nemours, Asse.
Sophisticated collectors will appreciate the diversity and quality of the prints from the 15th century to today, from the beginning of printing to contemporary editions – figurative and abstract – by artists who died at the end of the 20th century or who are still alive: original prints, intaglio and relief prints, original lithographs and monotypes, stencils, cliché verre and original silkscreen prints, in colour and black and white. A few famous names such as Dürer, Brueghel, Callot, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Géricault, Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rivière, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Zao Wou-Ki, Soulages have always been presented at the gallery. It is also possible to find topography, vintage views (of Paris and elsewhere), maps, seascapes, portraits and caricatures.
In contemporary art, the gallery has chosen to celebrate living artists who make both drawings and prints and those who have a particular relationship with the world of books. This stock is always changing, enriched through encounters and discoveries. The gallery also regularly offers works by artists from the second half of the 20th century, especially those working in lyrical and geometrical abstraction.