Antique Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1928 Decorative Arts "Prise de Corsaire" (The Pirate's

"Prise de Corsaire" (The Pirate's Prize) and signed "Villanis" to the lower right side

and began making annual summer visits where he became a friend of Mark Tobey—printing linocuts for the artist and collecting his work

the chest is raised on stile feet

A good & finely engraved antique Russian Kiddush cup or beaker of larger size

5" tall X 24

Antique Russian French Impressionist Watercolor Gouache Landscape Painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus 1928 Decorative Arts "Prise de Corsaire" (The Pirate'sImportant Russian French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus ( in French Pierre Nilouss (18691943), signed & dated 1928. Nilus was a celebrated French Russian impressionist painter & writer of Swiss descent, please biography below. This rather beautiful impressionistic painting depicts a pastoral landscape, with a row of trees to one side & a fence to the other side of a pathway. The painting is signed to the lower