Mid-19th Century Nude Paintings

Great neoclassical Italian painting from the first half of the 19th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a mythological subject of great charm, the wounded Philoctetes. A famous ...

Work on canvas

French Romantic School, mid 19th century Saint John the Baptist Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard 32.5 x 28 cm In a modern frame : 40.5 x 35.5 cm This St. John the Baptist, and ...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century/ 1960's Title: The Fishermen Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 21.5 x 15 inches Provenance: private collec...

‘Apprehension’ by Geskel Saloman (1821-1902). This large fine mid-19th century Orientalist oil painting is signed by the artist and was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1855. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Though born in Denmark, Geskel Saloman trained with Johan Ludwig Lund at the Royal Swedish...

His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Moreover, I was born on November 11, 1908 in Bellinzona, one day became a portrait painter of the president of the confederation, residing most of his life in Geneva, Vivaldo Martini...

The painting comes with the richly carved gilded wood frame (watercolors tempera on paper, 17.7 x 24.4 inch; with frame 28.7 x 33 inch). Reclined in a relaxed position aimed to emphasize the muscular tension, the figure stands out from a warm ochre and brownish nuances landscape, blending with the colour of the environment. The attributes (a club and the Nemean lion’s skin, of which the man touches the tail) and the physical size let him being identified in the demi-god Hercules from Thebes, depicted in a moment of rest during the Twelve Labours. The only details distracting from the apparent tranquillity is the head-alert and with a gloomy look-and the club-well sustained and ready to be used. The body of the hero takes inspiration from the canons of the tradition of the Farnese Hercules, based on a strong rendering of the physical anatomy, in which also the feet-wide feet, well curved, with big toes and evident metatarsus-are giving the idea of strength and stability. The pose itself has ancient echoes recalling the relief of the Athens Archaeological Museum passing through the customs of the river allegories and by the Michelangelesque's intensity in the Medici Chapels. A direct confrontation is with the small marble of the 18th century Hercules resting, bequest of the Viscount Robert Fitzwilliam and now held in the homonym museum in Cambridge1, of wich the painting must be a study from live. The dissimilarity between our work and the sculpture is in the background, painter’s idea, that outdistance the Neoclassicism of the figure and look at the Romanticism lesson, filtered by John Constable and, most of all, by the “painter of light...

Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin-Dupeux was born in La Rochelle, in southwestern France, in 1820. He studied under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter, and ...

"Odalisque" is a precious orientalist painting realized by Giovanni Costa (Rome, 1826 – Marina di Pisa, 1903) in 1858. Oil on canvas. Hand-signed in red on the upper left: G. Costa. In a beautiful wide gilded glazed frame cm. 132x150. Very good conditions. Exceptional exotic artwork representing a reclining semi-nude odalisque, a concubine of the Ottoman sultan. The beautiful woman has dark hair tied up, and she wears a gold headpiece...

Philippe-Jacques Van Bree (Belgian, 1786-1871) ‘A reclining nude’ Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed and dated ‘P. Van Bree/ Roma 68’ (upper right) 30.3/8 x 37.1/4in. (77.2 x 94.6cm.) (...

This is a large fine mid-19th century oil on canvas depicting a semi-naked girl beside a woodland stream with a group of shocked onlookers in the background by the eminent French Romantic painter Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize 1807–1893. ‘Femme au Bain...

Oil on panel circa 1845 by Paul Huet depicting a nude lying on a forest floor. Signed lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sourced if require...