18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Color: Black
Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John
By Domenico Puligo
Located in New Orleans, LA
A masterful example of Italian Mannerist painting, this exceptional panel was composed by the renowned Florentine painter Domenico Puligo. Alongside Jacopo Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, Puligo is remembered as one of the foremost figures of the Mannerist movement that rose to prominence during the 16th century in Florence. This panel of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and Saint John the Baptist is a characteristic example of his celebrated devotional images, which grace museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museo del Prado (Madrid), Palazzo Borghese (Rome), and Palazzo Pitti (Florence), among many others.
Puligo’s skill with color is fully demonstrated in the beautifully preserved work. Considering its age, the vibrancy and the sheer range of color is remarkable. The Virgin Mary’s crimson dress...
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Mannerist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Banquet Attrib to Van Den Hoecke Religious Oil on Table Old Master 17th Century
By Gaspar van den Hoecke (Antwerp, 1585 - 1648)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Gaspar van den Hoecke (Antwerp, 1585 - 1648)
Herod's banquet
Early 17th century
oil on panel, with gold highlights (in the guise of Salome and in the curtains of the building in the background)
56 x 80 cm.
framed 72 x 90 cm.
Note: The painting probably dates from an original by Frans II Francken (1581 - 1642), which is shown under the number 0000344789 in the RKD.
Valuable oil painting on panel depicting King Herod and the beautiful Jewish princess Salome according to the episode taken from the Gospel of Matthew (14.3-11), which sees her as the protagonist in the story of the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The event shown is a cross between history and legend, a myth faced for centuries by artists in every field: Caravaggio in painting, Oscar Wilde in theater, Richard Strauss...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil
17th Century Italian Old Master Oil - Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 17th Century Italian School
Title: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size: canvas: 21” x 16” (53.3 x 40.8cm)
Pro...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil
17th Century by Mexican Maestro Virgin of Solitude Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Dimensions: 165 x 123 cm without frame - 194 x 152 cm with frame
Black painted, carved, sculpted and guilloché wooden frame, gilded parts in the inner groove.
Publications: unpubl...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Peasants smoking and drinking - Gillis van Tilborgh (c. 1625 - 1678)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
At the forefront, a child barely reaching the height of the table, sits upon a modest chair, engaged in her simple meal. Her youthful visage captivat...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Dipinto antico olio su tela con cornice coeva 18secolo
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Dipinto antico olio su tela raffigurante ritratto di Maria Giovanna Battista di Savoia Nemours con cornice in legno dorato coeva allo stesso.
La nobildonna di alta estrazione social...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas
Dipinto antico olio su tela raffigurante Madonna col Bambino.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
In questa “Madonna col Bambino”, Francesco Solimena esprime diversi elementi della sua poetica con una delicatezza pienamente rococò.
Il pittore campano, variando i toni del chiaros...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century Darius' Family with Alexander Magnus Roman School Oil on Canvas
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas, measuring 78 x 110 unframed and 97 x 122 cm with coeval frame depicting the family of Darius with Alexander the Great, from the Roman school of the second hal...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 18th Century English Old Master Oil Painting Portrait of Lady on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
English School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 31 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: good and sound condition
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
16th Century by Venetian Maestro Deposition of Christ Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Formerly Canesso Collection, Paris.
Publications: Bozzetti, modelletti, sketches: dalla collezione di Giorgio Baratti (From the Giorgio Baratti Collection) curated by Anna Orlando, ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Wood Panel
16th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Vision of Saint John in Patmos Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Without frame.
Expertise by Prof. Antonio Vannugli
A brightly lit gash opens up in the middle of the sky; within it appears the figure of the Virgin with the Child and beside her a...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Dutch School, Elegant Couple, Tavern Interior Scene, Cabinet Piece, A PAIR
Located in Greven, DE
Dutch School, Elegant Couple, Tavern Interior Scene, Cabinet Piece, A PAIR
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel
17th Century Saint Ignatius Italian School Adoration Oil on Canvas Brown Orange
Located in Sanremo, IT
Oil painting on canvas, sized 149 x 124 cm (149 x 124 cm) unframed and 158 x 133 cm (158 x 133 cm) with antique hook depicting St. John the Baptist. Ignatius of Loyola in adoration o...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 17th Century Spanish Old Master Oil Painting Wounded Pilgrim with Angel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pilgrim and Angel
Spanish School, 17th Century
oil on canvas, gilt framed
framed: 48 x 37 inches
canvas: 43 x 32 inches
provenance: private collection, Barcelona, Spain
condition...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
FINE EARLY 1700'S ITALIAN BAROQUE OLD MASTER - MARY MAGDALENE WITH CHERUBS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, early 18th century
Title: Mary Magdalene attended by Cherubim
Medium: oil painting on canvas laid on board, framed
Size: painting: 34cm x 49cm
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique painting depicting the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine. Naples 19sec
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting the mystical marriage of St. Catherine.
The work is rich in iconographic invention and intoned in full-bodied, ringing colors, with effects ...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas
Antique painting Madonna and Child. Lombardy 18th century.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Madonna and Child with gilded and carved wooden frame.
Mary is depicted according to classical iconography, holding Jesus in her arms.
Jesu...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas
Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oval Portrait of Lady on Copper Wooden Frm
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady (female saint?)
Italian School, 17th century
oil on copper, framed
frame: 9 x 8 inches
board: 5 x 4 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 18th Century English Oil Aristocratic Portrait of a Gentleman Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic Gentleman
British artist, first half 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection, Dorset, England
condition...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Fine Quality 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Wood Panel Trial of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trial of Christ
Dutch Old Master, 17th century
oil on panel, unframed
panel: 11 x 7.5 inches
provenance: private collection, England,
Christies auction stencil marks verso
condi...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fine 17th Century Flemish Old Master Oil Painting Travellers Country Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers in a Country Landscape
circle of Jacques d'Arthois (Flemish 1613-1686)
oil on canvas, framed
frame: 13.5 x 18.5 inches
canvas: 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collectio...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School FINE DETAIL GOLD GILT FRAME
Located in Ferndown, GB
DESCRIPTION
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School
FINE DETAIL
GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF Scottish HISTORY
Description
( Late 18th centur...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 1700's Italian Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of a Clerical Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Clerical Gentleman
Italian artist, mid 18th century
Circle of Giovanni Battista Carboni (1725-1790)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 22 inches
provenance: private c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
18th Century English Marine Oil Painting on Wood Panel Fishing Boats Stormy Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stormy Seas
English School, 18th century
oil on thick wood panel, unframed
panel: 25 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, East Anglia, England
condition: very good and sound c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jan Miel ( 1599- 1663 ) - Hunters Resting - 17th Century Flemish Oil Painting
By Jan Miel
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Attributed/Close circle:
Jan Miel
(Flemish, 1599- 1663)
A Hunting Party resting by Ruins
• Oil on canvas, relined, ca. 52 x 70 cm
• Later Frame, ca. 70 x 8...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Matchmaker, oil on canvas by Jan Baptist Lambrechts
By Jan Baptist Lambrechts
Located in Gent, VOV
Jan Baptist LAMBRECHTS (Antwerp, 1680 - after 1731), L'entremetteuse Canvas. On verso, wax stamp. 40 x 31 cm Expert : M. René MILLET
Lambrechts was born in Antwerp in 1680. His fathe...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Large 18' Century French Oil Paintings after Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing works of the genre scene, dates to the late 18th century. After the famous French artist Francois Boucher, who was the court painter to King Louis XV.
It is in its origina...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Apostle Painted in the Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Peter Paul Rubens (circle of)
An Apostle
circular 15.15 inches (38.5 cm)
oil on canvas
Provenance: Bukowskis Auctions, lot 725149, as "Peter Paul Rubens, circle of".
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17 Century Holy Family Francesco Nuvolone Holy Family Oil on Canvas White
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas measuring 102 x 120 cm without frame and 110 x 128 cm depicting a Holy Family by the painter Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (Milan 1609 - 1702).
A member of the dyn...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 25 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 18th Century French Rococo Old Master Oil Allegorical Nude Winged Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Allegorical Winged Nude Lady, adorned with the attributes of Spring
French School, 18th century (Rococo period)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 52 inches
provenance...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
17th-18th Century By Daniel Seiter Saint Sebastian Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Without frame.
Already been in Koelliker collection (no. inv. LK1372).
Daniel Seiter (Vienna, 1642 or 1647 – Turin, Italy, 1705) was an Austrian Baroque painter who worked and trai...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Flemish Old Master Oil Tavern Interior Drinkers Sloped over Tables
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tavern Interior
Flemish School, 17th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 13.5 x 18
canvas: 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th-18th Century By Hendrick Govaerts Genre Scene Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Oral Expertise by Lisa Greaves.
Hendrick Govaerts' work takes place between two centuries: between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. Flemish by origin, his ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) The Prophecy of Simeon Large Antique Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Italian
Title: The Prophecy of Simeon
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
Painting: 21.5 ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th-18th Century By Louis Cretey Saint Sebastian Oil on Canvas
By Louis Cretey
Located in Milano, Lombardia
With a "cassetta" frame in carved and gilded wood.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th-18th Century By Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi Mary Magdalene Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in carved, sculpted and gilded wood.
Oral expertise by Prof. Massimo Pulini.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Mondino Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria Oil/Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
"Cassetta" frame in sculpted, carved and gilded wood.
Antonio Mondino (information from c. 1610 to c. 1626) was an Italian artist who was active from 1617 to 1633. The painting, whi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Giovanni Battista Spinelli Jacob's dream Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The painting by Giovanni Battista Spinelli (1613 - 1647), an Italian painter, depicts Jacob’s dream. Giovanni Battista Spinelli was active during the mid-17th century mainly in Naples. His works can be found in private collections, and some are at the Uffizi and at the National Gallery, London. This painting can be dated around 1655. Spinelli’s canvases might be difficult to date and they are of uneven quality. The painting depicts Jacob in a deep sleep while he is surrounded by dark and threatening clouds, but a ladder of light, where angels are ascending and descending, appears in his dream.
Publications:
- Expertise by Prof. Nicola Spinosa;
- I. Maniscalco, in From Sacro to Profano. The Giorgio...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Hendrick Van Somer Saint Jerome Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Ancient frame.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Guidotti aka Cavalier Borghese Salomé and the Baptist Oil/canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original canvas.
Frame in sculpted, carved, gilded wood
Publications:
- M. Pulini, in La croce, la testa, il piatto. Storie di San Giovanni Battista, Cesena, Galleria Comunale d...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Giuseppe Caletti The Court Jester From Dosso Dossi Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in carved and gilded wood.
Oral expertise by Prof. Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Johann Carl Loth Saint Mark Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Publications:
- Expertise by Prof. Dario Succi;
- M. Pulini, in Lo studiolo di Baratti, catalogue of the exhibition curated by M. Pulini, Cesena, Galleri...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Paulus Bor Heraclitus and Democritus Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
"Cassetta" frame in ebonized wood.
Publications:
- Expertise by Prof. Gianni Papi;
- G. Papi, Un misto di grano e di pula. Scritti su Caravaggio e l’ambiente caravaggesco, Roma 2...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
17th Century By Livio Mehus Allegory of Augustinian Order Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Publications:
- Expertise by Prof. Sandro Bellesi;
- S. Bellesi, in Barocco spaziale: dialoghi di luce, forma, colore fra pittura barocca e spazialismo, catalogo della mostra a cura...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
16th-17th Century By Giacomo Cavedone Susanna and the Elders Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Publications:
- E. Negro, N. Roio, Giacomo Cavedone 1577-1660, Modena 1996, pp. 164, 165.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Agostino Beltrano The Procession to Calvary Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in walnuts wood with decorations in gold.
Publications:
- Expertise by Prof. Nicola Spinosa;
- N. Spinosa, in Barocco spaziale: dialoghi di luce, forma, ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Gian Giacomo Barbelli Paradise and Purgatory Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Already been in Koelliker collection (no. inv. LK0431)
Publications:
- C. Alpini, Ritratto di Gian Giacomo Barbelli nel IV centenario della nascita, in “Insula Fulcheria”, XXXIV, ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1600's Dutch/ Flemish Old Master Oil Painting Head Portrait of Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Head Portrait of a Man with Beard
Flemish/ Dutch School, circa 1580-1620 period
circle of Adriaen Thomasz. Key (Dutch, 1544, Antwerp – after 1589)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 20 x ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique oil on canvas painting 18secolo Naples
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting the mystical marriage of St. Catherine.
The scene takes place in the foreground, and the Madonna is seen holding the Child toward St. Cather...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique oil on canvas painting 18secolo Naples
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting The Immaculate Virgin and Jesus "Hunter."
Mary Immaculate is depicted with Jesus in her arms killing the serpent with the cross,indicating t...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th c. Antwerp studio of J. Brueghel & H. van Balen - The Virgin with Child
Located in PARIS, FR
Workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678) & Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632)
17th century Antwerp School
The Virgin and Child ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young fisher - Phlegmatism allegory
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Attributed to Godfried SCHALKEN
(Made 1643 – The Hague 1706)
Young fischer
Oil on panel in one board
H. 32.5 cm; L. 25.5 cm
Around 1670/75
Related works:
- Autograph version with numerous variants, Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Inv. N°837
- Copy or workshop version of our painting with slight variations but of inferior quality, Germany, sold at Berlinghof Auktionshaus in 2002
The object of this notice is not to produce a biography of Schalken, the reference work by Thierry Beherman published by Maeght in 1988. The goal here is to understand this version of a painting of formidable craftsmanship and to compare it to the work preserved in Berlin with its many variants in order to draw some hypotheses for conclusions
Our young angler is a very interesting subject that can be found as early as the 16th century to invoke one of the four temperaments. Not melancholy as one might think at first glance, but phlegmatic character. The interpretation of astrological symbols closely linked peach and phlegm, laziness, slowness, often represented alongside the moon. Here the composition is very clear in this sense. The young man, chin resting on his arm, looks at his modest cane, the cork of which he soaks alongside snails and butterflies located in the Irises. All near a willow under a heavy sky, like a night sky. All the elements are there to give an explanation of the subject and not to leave the spectator in front of a simple genre scene. Let's go back to the willow, a tree that loses its fruits before they mature. It is often considered a symbol of lost youth, a reference to passivity or times of debauchery. Plato advised in his time to banish fishing from the education of children since it is an activity of expectation and not of exercise or reflection. Needless to explain the presence of small slow-moving animals with short lives or flowers… The image speaks for itself!
Let's go back to the differences between the Berlin version and ours, of which it must be recognized that the quality is slightly lower and therefore can hardly be given with certainty to Schalken itself. This version has some additional elements compared to ours. In our version, the row of willows cut into trunks located to the left of the composition is replaced by a simple area of reeds that opens up to a luminous sky. The sky is also different by the clouds represented. A white butterfly flying in the middle of the Irises has been removed, as has a large leaf located on the back of the young fisherman at the foot of the willow. Only addition to our table in addition to the Berlin version: a second fish near the earthen pot...
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Flemish School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Presumed portrait of Baron de Vennac
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Marianne LOIR
(Paris 1705 – Paris 1783)
Presumed portrait of Jean-Jacques-Blaise Baloin de Belvèse, Baron de Vennac (?-1781)
Oil on oval canvas
H. 54.5 cm; W. 46 cm (around 90 cm hig...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Presumed portrait of Princess de Conti, Marie-Anne de Bourbon
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE
(Paris 1656 – 1746)
Portrait of a woman, presumed to be Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princess of Conti (1666-1739)
Oil on oval canvas
H. 80 cm; L. 61 cm (107 x 91 c...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis coveted "Boucher." France
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Venus and Adonis.
The painting depicts in a sublimated atmosphere the death of Adonis, the young man loved by Venus, who was mortally wounde...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Judith and Holoferne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jacques STELLA
(Lyon, 1596 – Paris, 1657)
Judith and Holofernes
Oil on slate
H. 23.5 cm; L. 24 cm
Son of François Stellaert, a painter of Flemish origin who settled in Rome in 1576, then in Lyon, Jacques Stella was born in this city in 1596. Around 1619, he left for Florence where he worked for Cosimo II de Medici. He probably already met Nicolas Poussin and Jacques Callot there. Stella left Florence for Rome in 1622 or 1623, where he befriended Poussin, who arrived in 1624. Stella became famous in the world of Italian amateurs for his small paintings painted on precious supports: marble, agate, lapis, slate, as well as by his engravings and drawings. In 1634, having received offers from the King of Spain, he left Rome in the suite of Marshal de Créqui, French ambassador. He passed through Venice, stopped in Lyon in 1635, then in Paris. Retained by Richelieu who took him into his service, he settled in the capital of the kingdom. Covered with favors, he benefited from accommodation in the Louvre and a considerable pension. He later received the Collar of the Order of Saint-Michel, a rare honor for an artist...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Paintings
Materials
Slate
