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Period: 17th Century
Madonna and Child with Saints Oil on canvas Giovanni Balducci known as Cosci
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Balducci known as Cosci (Florence, 1560-Naples, 1631)
Madonna and Child, St. John, St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth
Oil on canvas, 120 x 110 cm
The Madonna and Child, well-li...
Category
17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Still life with musical instruments Oil painting on canvas Antonio TIbaldi
By Antonio Tibaldi
Located in Milan, IT
Antonio Tibaldi known as the Count (Rome, 1633 - documented until 1675)
Still life with musical instruments, sheet music and riser with sweets
Oil on canvas, cm 120 x 169
Frame, 1...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Soldier in an Interior, Early 17th Century Dutch Oil
Located in London, GB
Pieter Symonsz Potter
Dutch 1600 - 1652
Soldier in an Interior
Oil on oak panel, red seal to reverse
Image size: 15 x 10 3/4 inches
Dutch Ebonised frame
Bathed in a well lit roo...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
17th century English figure painting - Portrait nobleman - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (17th century) - Portrait of a gentleman.
73.5 x 63.5cm.
Oil on canvas, unframed.
Condition report: Canvas applied on panel. Good state of conservation of the pict...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of Jacob Ruisdael, Landscape with Riders and a Well, Flemish Art
Located in Greven, DE
Circle of Ruisdael, Riders in a Landscape passing by a well
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
17thC Spanish Colonial School Frame with orig. Painting St. Joseph Jesus Child
Located in Meinisberg, CH
17th Century Spanish Colonial School (Likely to be School of Cuzco in Peru) - St. Joseph with the Christ Child carrying a basket, housed in its original carved, hardwood frame.
• Painted in oil on canvas (laid on to fiberboard), ca.58 x 48 cm
• Original frame, ca. 64 x 54 cm
• Visible image ca. 52.5 x 42.5 cm
Centuries ago this religious painting, depicting St. Joseph with his flowering staff and the Christ Child carrying a basket, was originally displayed in a church or chapel in 17th Century colonial...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large 17th century Flemish old master painting - Diana and Callisto - Rubens
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish Old master painting "Diana and Callisto" attributed to Victor Wolfvoet the Younger
Our painting is based on Rubens' great work of...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
The Fishmonger Painted by Giacomo Francesco Cipper known as the Todeschini
By Giacomo Francesco Cipper (Todeschini)
Located in Milan, IT
Giacomo Francesco Cipper, called the Todeschini (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736)
The fishmonger
Oil on canvas, 64 x 83 cm - Framed, 85 x 101 cm
The crisp harbor air that saturates ...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Immaculate Madonna within garland painting Giovanni Stanchi and Girolamo Pesci
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Stanchi (Rome, 1608 - 1675) and Girolamo Pesci ( Rome 1679 - 1759)
Immaculate Madonna within floral garland
Oil on canvas, cm 95 x 72
Frame, cm 106 x 83
Expert opinion o...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Still Life with Dishes Painting Oil on Canvas Giuseppe Ruoppolo
Located in Milan, IT
Joseph Ruoppolo (c. 1630 - 1710)
Still life with copper crockery, cuttlefish and oysters
Oil on canvas, 102 x 152 cm
Frame 122 x 172 cm
The absolute authorship of the present pai...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Abraham Bloemaert, Bacchus
By Abraham Bloemaert
Located in Tricase, IT
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT - GORINCHEM, 1564 - 1651, UTRECHT
Bacchus oil on panel 60 x 45 cm.
Abraham Bloemaert is a Dutch Golden Age artist, born in Gorinchem in 1564, initial...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait Of A Noblewoman. Attributed To Carlo Ceresa. About 1640.
By Carlo Ceresa
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a noblewoman.
Attributed to Carlo Ceresa. (1609 - 1679, Bergamo)
Oil on canvas.
Size cm 110x86,5cm with frame
Around 1640.
This portrait depicts a middle-aged woman w...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still life with two women Oil painting on canvas by Felice Boselli
Located in Milan, IT
Felice Boselli (Piacenza, 1650 - Parma, 1732)
Still life with two women
Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 164 cm
Frame 108 x 175.5
The refined composition depicting a floral still life with...
Category
17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
St. John's Day Fest Crowded Scene 17th century Flemish school Large Oil painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Masterly painted crowded scene of St. John's Day celebration in wooded landscape. It is well detailed with numerous figures of resting folk partly dressed in the manner of Saint John...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wood
Painting with Daniel in the Pit of Lions, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The biblical episode depicted refers to the story of Daniel, the prophet in the court of King Darius the Mede who, for praying to his God, was condemned to be thrown i...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Master Painting, Flemish School from 1600s, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small Flemish painting, measuring only 24.5 x 18.5 cm and executed on a copper plate, depicts Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. Created in the 17th century, the artist remains unknow...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
17th Century German Baroque Oil Painting Shepherds & Flocks in Landscape
By Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shepherds in Field
German School, late 17th century
circle of Philipp Peter Roos (1655-1706)
oil on canvas
19 x 31 inches, unframed
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flemish School, 17th Century, Mary Magdalene
Located in Stockholm, SE
Flemish School, 17th Century
Mary Magdalene
oil on copper
17th century
plate dimensions 23 x 17 cm
frame 27 x 22 cm
Restored by professional art conservator 2022.
Provenance: ...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
After Joseph Heintz the Elder's Entombment of Christ
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Late Renaissance copper after Joseph Heintz the Elder's Entombment of Christ
The entombment of Christ, after Joseph Heintz the Elder. Oil on copper...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Baroque Flemish painter - 17th century figure painting - Death Cleopatra
Located in Varmo, IT
Flemish master (17th century) - Suicide of Cleopatra.
87 x 116 cm without frame, 104.5 x 133.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Ascension Day in Venice, Louis de Caullery (1582-1621), Flemish 17th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Ascension Day in Venice
17th century Antwerp School
Attributed to Louis de Caullery (1582-1621)
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions: h. 19.68 in, w. 34.25 in
Flemish style frame in ebonized ...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Virgin with child
By Peter Paul Rubens
Located in MADRID, ES
Oil on panel
17 century
Category
17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel
Rococò Italian painter - 18th century landscape painting - Festival
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian master (18th century) - Landscape with ruins and characters.
97 x 138cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Painting subjected to relining. G...
Category
Rococo 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1600's Flemish Old Master Oil Painting The Virgin & Child Mastertpiece Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Virgin & Child
Flemish School, circa 1600
circle of Cornelis van Cleve (Flemish c. 1520-1614),
oil painting on canvas
canvas: 37 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Circle of David Teniers, Landscape with Peasants by an Inn and a River, Dutch
Located in Greven, DE
Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
17th Century Baroque Old Master Oil Painting Stag Hunting Party in Landscape
By Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Hunting Party
German/ Italian School
circle of Philipp Peter Roos (German 1655-1706)
oil on canvas, unframed
19 x 31 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Devotional Scene The Miracle of Soriano, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The canvas recounts the miracle of Soriano: in this locality in Calabria, the Madonna with Mary Magdalene (recognizable by the jar of ointment) and Catherine of Alexa...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1600's French Old Master Oil Painting Nude Figures in Landscape Oil on Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Figures in Wooded Landscape
French School, 17th century
oil on wood panel, framed
framed: 25.5 x 21.5 inches
board: 20 x 15.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condi...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century Holy Family Italian School Madonna and Child Oil on Canvas Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Examining with interest this "Sacred Scene" from the end of the 1500s/beginning of the 17th century (oil painting on canvas, 32 x 26 cm without frame and 40 x 33 cm with frame) repre...
Category
Italian School 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac by Adriaen Van Stalbemt, C. 1605-1610
Located in Stockholm, SE
Artist: Adriaen van Stalbemt (Stalbempt) 1580-1662
Title: Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac “Das Opfer des Abraham”
According to the Old...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
A 17th c. Italian school, Capriccio with the Colosseum, circle of V. Codazzi
Located in PARIS, FR
A capriccio with the Colosseum in Roma
17th century Italian school
Circle of Viviano Codazzi (1604-1670)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: h. 35.43 in, w. 51.18 in
Modern 17th century style ...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Dutch Flemish Old Master Oil on Panel Figures Grape Harvest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Grape Harvest
Flemish/ Dutch School, 17th century
oil on wood panel
panel: 13 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, Belgium
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judith Beheading Holoferne - Oil painting by G.R. Badaracco - Late 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Judith Beheading Holoferne is an oil painting made by Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco, mid-17th Century.
Oil on canvas, cm. 102x75..
Very good condition.
Prov. Sotheby's, Amsterdam,...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century French Old Master Oil Painting Classical Robed Semi Nude Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
17th century French School
circle of Nicolas Poussin (French 1594-1665)
"Figures in Arcadia"
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound condition
Nicolas Poussin was a renowned French painter of the 17th century. He is considered one of the greatest figures of classical French Baroque art...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Italian painter - 17th century figure painting - Holy Family - Virgin
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian master (17th century) - Holy Family with St. John the Baptist.
66 x 99cm.
Oil on canvas, unframed.
Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface, there...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil Painting Wood Panel Figures in Tavern Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Topers in a Tavern'
Circle of Jacob Toorenvliet (Dutch 1635 - 1719)
oil on panel, framed
framed: 9 x 7 inches
panel: 7.5 x 6 inches
provenance: priv...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circle Teniers, Flemish Art, Peasants smoking and drinking in a Tavern Interior
Located in Greven, DE
Circle or Follower of David Teniers, Peasant in a Tavern Inn, drinking and smoking. Oil on canvas, Framed: 39 x 47 cm. Typical Flemish Baroque Interior...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Allegorie della Prudenza e della Giustizia, 1600s
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Scuola italiana del XVII secolo.
I due dipinti fanno probabilmente parte di un gruppo raffigurante le quattro virtù cardinali, ovvero Giustizia, Prudenza, Temperanza e ...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century Flemish Old master - Silenus feasting - Wine God
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century old master painting "Silenus feasting", likely studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Born in Antwerp in 1599, Anthony Van Dyck entered the studio of Rubens (1577 - 1640) at the age of nineteen. Quickly, the master perceives the talents of the young prodigy and makes him his first assistant. Van Dyck, for his part, has a particular admiration for the man whose name is known throughout Europe. In 1619, he was inspired by a drunken Silenus by Rubens, produced one or two years earlier for a composition on the eponymous theme. This work, now in the Dresden Museum, appears to be the first version of our painting. That work has an illustrious provenance; it was recorded in the private collection of Leopold Wilhelm (Archduke of Austria) in 1662, in 1722 it was bought by the famous German painter Antoine Pesne for the King of Saxony in Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, inventory number 1017). From 1945 until 1955 it was on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moskou, after having been taken by Russia after the Second World War. It was then returned to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden where it is still on display.
Our painting is of a fine quality and has been painted by a skilled and confident hand. It displays some slight variations in the composition when compared to the original; the legs of Silenus are smoother and less hairy, more humanoid than satyresque. There might also be a pentimento visible at the level of the legs where one observes traces of hair on and under the material. This area can be compared to that of a canvas by Van Dyck kept in Brussels, of a still drunk Silenus whose animal legs are formally treated in the same way as the ones in our composition. Furthermore, the skirt of the figure to the far left has a purplish-red colour in our work, whereas in the first version it appears to be white.
There also appear to be differences in the sky, firstly the clouds are shaped slightly different, the sky in our painting has a more vivid colour and there is also a golden hue of a sunset visible to the far left. This treatment of the background appears close to that of a Saint Rosalie, now kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and dated 1625, which might offer a reference for dating our painting. In the evanescent aspect, as non finito of its figures, it is interesting to compare our Silenus to a Saint Sebastian, conserved in the Escorial Museum in Madrid.
Also, the theme remains rather curious. According to Barnes and Porter, Rubens, like Van Dyck after him, was partly inspired by Book XI of Ovid's Metamorphoses, but a second literary or pictorial source remains unknown (1).
For the original composition, Stephan Maaser, art historian, establishes a correspondence between the position of Silenus, referring to that of a Christ at the moment of the Lamentation or the Descent from the Cross (2); the female characters on the left and the male on the right refer more to Mary Magdalene and Saint John than to the Phrygians or the members of a bacchanalian procession. Finally, note that Silenus is not usually a faun. The success of the composition at the time of its public reception and its engraving by Franciscus van der Steen really contributed to the dissemination of the work. At the same time, it testifies to the intense activity of the painter and his studio in Antwerp, before he left to work at the English court.
About Silenus:
In greek mythology, Silenus was the tutor and foster-father of the wine god Dionysos, who was entrusted to his care by Hermes after his birth from the thigh of Zeus. The young god was raised by Silenus and nursed by the Nysiad nymphs in a cave on Mount Nysa. Silenus was, in essence, the spirit of the treading dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the words seiô, "to move to and fro," and lênos, "the wine-trough."
Once, when Dionysos was travelling through Phrygia, Seilenos became lost and was captured by King Midas. The king treated him hospitably and as a reward Dionysos granted him his golden touch.
The artists biography:
Born in Antwerp on 22 March 1599, Anthony van Dyck was the seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant, and Maria Cuypers, who was renowned for her embroidery skills. In 1609, when he was ten years old, his parents apprenticed the precocious youth to Hendrik van Balen (1575-1632), a painter of small cabinet pictures and dean of the city's Saint Luke's Guild. Although the length of Van Dyck's stay with Van Balen is not known, it probably lasted three to four years.
Van Dyck registered as a master in the Antwerp Saint Luke's Guild on 11 February 1618, by which time he was already in demand as a portrait painter (see the NGA painting, Portrait of a Flemish Lady...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rare and fascinating 17th Century German Classical British royalty Old Master
By (Circle of) Godfrey Kneller
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646 – 1723)
Amelie Sophia von Wendt as Aphrodite in the judgement of Paris, later as King George II’s Courtesan, bestowed the title of the Countes...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century Dutch School
Located in ROUEN, FR
17th Century Dutch School"
17th century Dutch school. Marine in heavy weather. Oil on canvas. High. : 38.5 cm - Width. : 58cm
Category
Dutch School 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Adoration of the Magi by Joseph van Bredael
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph van Bredael
1688-1739 Flemish
The Adoration of the Magi
Oil on copper
Painted on copper and exhibiting an exquisite luminosity, this exceptional painting...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Italian Veneto Baroque Religious Figurative Painting 17th century oil paper wood
Located in Florence, IT
This small painting (oil on paper attached on a wood panel, 18 x 12.5) represents Saint Jerome, dressed up as a cardinal, sitting outside, in reference to his experience as a peniten...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
Baroque Italian painter - 17th century landscape painting - Port Scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (17th century) - Port landscape with figures.
65.5 x 95.5 cm without frame, 73.5 x 107.5 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined c...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ter Borch, Interior with elegant Ladies and a Gentleman, The Letter, Old Master
By Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Located in Greven, DE
Painting after Gerard Ter Borch. The orginal "The Letter" is in Munich, Alte Pinakothek . It measures height: 56 cm (22 in); width: 46.5 cm (18.3 in) and dates from c. 1655.
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
17th c. Flemish - Landscape with Flight to Egypt - Antwerp circa 1630
Located in PARIS, FR
LANDSCAPE WITH FLIGHT TO EGYPT,
JASPER VAN DER LANEN (ANTWERP, 1585 - 1634)
17TH CENTURY FLEMISH SCHOOL
ANTWERP CIRCA 1630
Oil on copper, dimensions: h. 10.23 in, w. 14.96 in
Flemish style frame in ebonized wood adorned with wavy moldings and wood veneer.
Framed dimensions: h. 17.32 in, w. 21.65 in
Provenance:
Philips auction...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Painting with Female Bust with Flower Garland, late 17th, early 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Central-Italian school of the late 17th-early 18th century.
The composition proposes a female bust in the center, portrayed as if it were a sculptural effigy, because ...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diana and Actaeon, a Mannerist painting after Joseph Heintz the Elder
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting seduced us with its rich colors. Depicting Diana and her companions surprised by Actaeon, it was inspired by an engraving by Aegidius Sadeler II after a painting by Jos...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
17th century Italian figure painting - Fall of Fetonte - Oil on copper Landscape
Located in Varmo, IT
Roman master (c. 1650) - The Fall of Phaeton.
40.5 x 52.5 cm without frame, 56.5 x 59.5 cm with frame.
Oil on copper, in carved and gilded wooden fra...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
17 century.
Oil on copper.
Located in MADRID, ES
Abraham Teniers
Category
17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Dutch 17th Century Oil Painting - The Card Game by Ter Borch
By Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Located in London, GB
Gerard ter Borch
The Cards Game
Oil on canvas
14 x 15.5 inches unframed
19 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches framed
Gerard ter Borch (Dutch; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 17th century Italian figure painting - The garden of the sorceress Falerina
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian master (17th century) - The garden of the sorceress Falerina (from "Orlando in love").
97 x 130 cm without frame, 111 x 144 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gild...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of Giuseppe-Maria CRESPI - Dressmakers
By Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Lo Spagnuolo
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Giuseppe-Maria CRESPI (1665, Bologna - 1747), circle of
Dressmakers surprised at work
Oil on canvas
H. 35 cm; L. 23 cm
This small painting, charming and of very good quality, is representative of Italian genre painting...
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French School 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle Wouwerman, Horseman by a Tent, Riders Playing Cards, Dutch Old Master
By Philips Wouwerman
Located in Greven, DE
Circle Wouwerman, Horseman by a Tent, Riders Playing Cards (?), Old Master
Dutch Art, Travellers or Riders resting by a tent and gambling
Category
Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Battle Scene Oil On Canvas 17th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on canvas. Mittel-European School. There is a No.S monogram on the back and numbers probably from an inventory. The painting reminds of pieces from the Austrian area. It represen...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Continence of Scipio, Erasmus Quellinus, School Rubens, Baroque Art, Old Master
By Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Located in Greven, DE
Erasmus Quellinus
The Continence of Scipio
Oil on Canvas
The painting is included in the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist.
The Roman commande...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies
Attriubted to Cornelis Schut
(1597 - 1655) Flemish
ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount
size: 4.75 x 7 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overa...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
Located in Como, IT
Circle of Bernardo Castello (1557-1629)
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
1600-1615 circa
Oil on canvas in gilded frame
Measures in cm: 84 x 63 cm (104 x 84 cm including frame)
Measures in inch: 33.07 x 24.80 in (40,95 x 33,08 in including the frame)
One of the most widespread iconographies in Italian painting from the Renaissance onwards, that of the Holy Family, is set in a sober and at the same time elegant interior, as the presence of the gold-edged green curtain that closes the space like a backdrop states. Whether it takes place in the intimacy of the house in Nazareth, as in the painting presented here, or it is placed outdoors, the scene includes the presence in the role of protagonists of the Madonna and Child Jesus, flanked by the protective figure of Joseph, always held a slightly aloof. In some cases, including ours, the Child is in dialogue with the little John the Baptist, thus alluding to the role played by the latter in the history of salvation, as the gesture of Jesus explicitly indicates in our canvas, who blesses the one who will be destined to baptize him in the waters of the Jordan.
The 'room' dimensions, the calm religious intonation that pervades the representation, underlined by the very evident presence of the haloes, attest that the painting was conceived for the private devotion of its client and probably intended for a bedroom or for the walls of a small home chapel.
The cleaning carried out in recent times allows you to appreciate the bright and lively chromatic range, orchestrated on the refined harmony between the shades of the Virgin's robes - blue and carmine red - and the bright green of the curtain that forms the backdrop to the scene. A particularly delicate pictorial drafting, well appreciated in the soft rendering of the faces and limbs of the two children - observe, for example, the suffused chiaroscuro transitions of the face of Jesus - is combined with a sensitive and tender description of the 'affects', allowing us to place this painting in the context of the painting of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and of the principles of verisimilitude and naturalness advocated by it in reaction to the expressive licenses and formal abstractions of the Mannerist figurative culture derived from Michelangelo's lesson. The return to a sober and juxtaposed pictorial language and simplified compositional schemes, often inspired by the early sixteenth century examples of Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, which we also recognize in our Holy Family, characterizes the work of numerous artists scattered throughout the various centers of the Peninsula , from the Bologna of the Carracci, to the Tuscany of Santi di Tito, to the Marche of Federico Barocci, up to Rome, Naples and Milan, where Camillo Procaccini and Guglielmo Caccia...
Category
17th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil