Board Figurative Paintings

17th century Dutch old master painting - A countryside road in a dune landscape Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) was a renowned Dutch landscape painter of ...

Follower of Adriaen BROUWER (Dutch, 1605/06-1638) Making merry in a tavern Oil on canvas 8.1/2 x 10.1/8 in. (21.7 x 25.8 cm.)

Portrait of a sultan page with turban is an original oil on canvas realized in the 18th Century by Neapolitan School Master. Original oil on canvas on panel. Gilded wood Frame is i...

Late 17th - early 18th century Italian Old Master painting depicting a very fine view of an oriental harbor. In the lower right one can see two people, clothed in eastern fashion, wa...

19th century English portrait of a man sowing cloth or leather in his studio or workshop. A very well painted and unique composition dating from the first half of the 19th century. Muller was a very famous English artist who traveled throughout Europe painting scenes of people and landscapes. If you look through the window you will see slatted wooden window shutters and terracotta roof tiles which I think would make this one of Mullers Italian period paintings...

A rare chance to acquire an amazing oil painting by old master Francesco Francia dated c.1500. Apart from these works that can be accurately dated, Francia's corpus of work includes many other paintings, in particular his admirable Madonnas. Vasari reports that, in his lifetime, Francia was regarded by the people of Bologna as a god. Francesco Francia belonged to a distinguished Bolognese family, though at the time of his birth the family fortunes were at a low ebb. His father, Marco Raibolini, a wood engraver or carver, apprenticed him to the jeweller Duc, known as Francia. Francia became a highly reputed jeweller in his native town, and his works were acquired by men of power and influence. In a letter dated 1546, he is mentioned as the foremost jeweller in Bologna. He also made medals, designed the Bolognese coinage, and cut the first characters used in printing. He is thought to have produced the first Italic fonts, which he supplied to Aldus Manutius. As a goldsmith, he was particularly noted for his niello work. He is generally thought to have been taught by Marco Zoppo and Squarcione. It is believed that Francia's decision to become a painter was determined by Lorenzo Costa's arrival in Bologna in 1483. The first painting known to be by Francia, dated 1494, is a Madonna and Child with Six Saints, kept at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. The technical skill displayed in the painting gives the lie to the idea that this was his first work, as Vasari affirms. Dated from the following year is a Virgin and Child with St Joseph, which Count Jean Palffy acquired at the Dudley Sale in 1892. In 1499, Raibolini painted an altarpiece for Giovanni Benlevoglio for the chapel the latter had built in the church of S Giacomo Maggiore. This work earned Francia a commission to paint a Nativity for the church of the Misericordia; the work is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. For the same church, Raibolini also painted the small predella, depicting the birth and death of Christ (also now in the Bologna Pinacoteca). As well as these works, the Gallery houses the famous Masignoli Madonna, which, according to Vasari, Francia painted for the same church. In 1500, Francia painted an Annunciation for the outside walls of the church of the Annunziata. Dated from 1502 are a Virgin in Glory with the Child Jesus and Saints and two Annunciations, one kept in the Bologna Pinacoteca, the other produced for the duke of Mantua and now in Milan. Vasari also mentions a Birth of Christ, made for Paolo Zambeccaro, now in the Farli Gallery. From the same period date a Madonna and Two Saints, in the Vienna Museum; a St Francis, in the collection of Dr Frizzoni; a Madonna in the Rose Garden, kept in Munich; a Head of the Man of Sorrows...