18th Century Nude Paintings

Follower of Hans von Aachen (18th-19th century) - Athena. 24 x 19 cm without frame, 29 x 23 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame. - The painting i...

Venetian painter (18th century) - Erotic scene. 32.5 x 27.5 cm without frame, 49.5 x 44 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame. - Bears label: “No confunder arte con porn...

Female nude in front of a curtain with clothes is an old master artwork realized by an Italian artist in the early 18th century, Mixed colored oil on canvas. Good condition.

Oil on board, 53cm x 49cm, (71cm x 47cm framed). The painting is in good condition, having recently been cleaned. It was previously in the Cobbe Collection, at National Trust, Hatchl...

We would like to thank Marco Riccòmini for his help in preparing this note and in particular for pointing out the existence of the drawing in the Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia. The ...

This painting, by Johann Franz Meskens, represents a satyr discovering a sleeping naiad. Behind the mythological alibi, it is easy to see an alleg...

At the Salon of 1742, François Boucher presented a painting inspired by the theme of Leda and the swan. By depicting her as a nymph pressed against the breast of a female companion, he offers a very personal reading of this theme highlighting its erotic character. The studio version we are proposing, similar in size to the original, is a very faithful rendition of the painting presented at the Salon, which is now in a private American collection. 1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre. As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him. On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale...

in this depiction of the “Triumph of Galatea” (oil painting on canvas, 110 x 84 cm without a frame 115 x 84 with frame) a basic pictorial imprint and a loose display taste emerge wh...

This painting of a murky sensuality by Johann Franz Meskens represents the terrible moment when Lucretia is about to kill herself. It bears witnes...

Artist/ School: French School, 18th century, after Rubens, with attached frame plaque claiming 'workshop of Rubens' (in French). Title: The Cherubs Medium: oil painting on canvas,...

Fine and very decorative painting , oil on canvas. It shows Jupiter disguised as Diana to seduce Callisto. The Myth of Jupiter and Callisto. Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' (II, 417–440) t...

Roman master of the 18th century - "Mythological scene with a chained soldier". 74 x 101.5 cm without frame, 86.5 x 115 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wood frame.