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Period: 17th Century
An Artist Grinding Colours, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Located in London, GB
Jan Kupetsky (1667 - 1740)
Czech School
An artist grinding colours, possibly a self-portrait
Oil on canvas
Signed, verso : "Joseph Prinzig"
Provenance:
Private Collection, Hungary
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Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Flowers, Grapes and Mushrooms, XVIIth - XVIIIth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Lombard school of the late 17th-early 18th century. The rich composition offers a large bouquet of colorful flowers in an embossed vase, next to a bowl full o...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
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Oil
17th Century, Old Master Painting, Oil on Canvas, "The Rest with the Horses".
Located in Berlin, DE
17th century, old master painting, oil on canvas, "The rest with the horses".
Relined canvas.
The stretcher was also renewed once.
The painting is rather dark, like i.a. on photo n...
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Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Guardian Angel and a Child
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York; by whom gifted in 1880 to:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (80.3.673); deaccessioned and sold:
Christie’s, New York, 12 June 19...
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Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Terracotta, Gesso
Hero And Leander, 17th Century Studio of DAVID II TENIERS (1610-1690)
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Blackwater, GB
Hero And Leander, 17th Century
Studio of DAVID II TENIERS (1610-1690)
Large 17th century Dutch Old Master classical scene of Hero and Leander, oil on canvas. Excellent quality an...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
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Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Erminia meets the shepherds Camillo Gavassetti, XVII sec.
Located in Milan, IT
In the oil on canvas, on the right, a young woman is depicted with dark hair tied up and held in place by ribbons of pearls. She is dressed in warrior clothes: she wears a red tunic...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century Hunting Scene Flemish School Battle Dogs Horses Oil on Canvas Red
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, measuring 75 x 103 cm without frame and 82 x 110 cm with frame, of the Flemish school depicting a hunting scene.
The confident outline of the almost drawn a...
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Flemish School 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chickens & Other Birds In A Farmyard, 18th Century
By Marmaduke Cradock
Located in Blackwater, GB
Chickens & Other Birds In A Farmyard, 18th Century
circle of Marmaduke CRADOCK (c.1660-1717)
Fine 18th Century English School farmyard scene of var...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
17th Century Saint Jerome Francesco Fracanzano Saint Skull Oil on Canvas Red
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, measuring 92 x 77 without frame and 107 x 82 cm with frame , depicting a Saint Jerome in ancient philosopher and ascetic version, typical of the greatest tra...
Category
Italian School 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Lady As Diana, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady As Diana, 17th Century
Salomon de Bray (1597-1664)
Large 17th Century Dutch Old Master portrait of a lady as Diana, oil ...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of landscapes Painted by Antonio Francesco Peruzzini
Located in Milan, IT
Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (Ancona, 1643/1646 - Milan, 1724)
Rural landscape with river and village center
Rural landscape with river and tower
(2) Oil on canvas, cm 108 x 62
Expert opinion Prof. Emilio Negro
Recognizable in the present pair of paintings is the hand of what Mina Gregori called "the most original and path-breaking landscape painter to emerge in the late seventeenth century," namely Antonio Francesco Peruzzini. Finally identified by Arslan in 1959 as such a "Perugino," author of a St. Sebastian in a private Milanese collection, Peruzzini has in recent times been reevaluated from his former qualification as a mere subordinate of Lissandrino (Alessandro Magnasco), in comparison with whom he turns out to be an excellent coadjutor and original landscape painter. A distant mountainous horizon, of frozen vigor, is proposed in both canvases interspersed with a spindly tree in the background that screws swirlingly to the sky. The anti-academicism and nonconformism that characterized Peruzzini's entire career appear evident here and justify in retrospect his choice of such figurative collaborators as Magnasco and Sebastiano Ricci...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Coppia di Nature Morte con angurie, uva e fichi di Maximilian Pfeiler
Located in Milan, IT
Maximilian Pfeiler (attivo dal 1683 al 1721 ca)
Natura morta con anguria e Natura morta con uva e fichi
(2) Olio su tela, cm 62 x 76
Con cornice, cm 79 x 92
La coppia di nature mort...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of The Persian Sybil, 17th Century School of GUERCINO (1591-1666)
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of The Persian Sybil, 17th Century
School of GUERCINO (1591-1666)
Large 17th Century Italian Old Master portrait of the Persian Sybil, oil on canvas. Excellent quality an...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fergus Mór Mac Eirc, Fergus II King Of Scotland (430-501), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Fergus Mór Mac Eirc, Fergus II King Of Scotland (430-501), 17th Century
European School - Early Oil On Panel
17th Century European School portrait of Fergus II King of Scotland, oi...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Hunting Party, 17th Century - School of Simon KICK (1603-1652)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Hunting Party, 17th Century
School of Simon KICK (1603-1652)
Huge 17th Century Dutch Old Master interior of a hunting party after the hunt, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition that would signifcantly enhance with a light clean. Presented in an antique gilt frame. Exceptionally detailed and early interior hunting portrait...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Oil on Canvas Spanish Religious Antique Painting, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Great Spanish painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a religious subject, Pope Innocent III confirms the Franciscan Rule, of good pictorial quality. A large, impactful painting adorned with a 19th-century carved and gilded wooden and plaster frame. Artwork that develops horizontally, ideal for placing in an important hall or study, for antique dealers and interior decorators. A painting that shows various signs of aging and old restorations (see photo), in a beautiful patina. The perspective offered by the painter is pleasant. The main subject, in the foreground on the left, connects to the view with architecture and characters on the right through the checkerboard...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Natura morta con frutti, verdure e vaso con fiori su un ripiano in pietra
Located in Como, IT
Artista attivo in ambito lombardo nel primo quarto del XVII secolo
Natura morta con frutti, verdure e vaso con fiori su un ripiano in pietra
Olio su tela cm. 115 x 170
Studio del ...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silvio and Dorinda, a drawing by Leonaert Bramer, Vermeer's first master
Located in PARIS, FR
This finely executed drawing in pen and wash is typical of the work of Leonaert Bramer, one of the most fascinating yet little-known artists of 17th-century Holland.
In a nocturnal ...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Laid Paper, Pen
Cercle of Ambrosius Francken, Adoration of the shepherds, 17th century Antwerp
Located in PARIS, FR
Adoration of the shepherds,
Cercle of Ambrosius Francken,
Early 17th century Antwerp school
Oil on oak panel: h. 55 cm, w. 43 cm (21.65 in x 16.93 in)
17th c. ebonized and moulded f...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Painting Moses Saved by the Waters, 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The scene recounts the biblical episode from the book of Exodus in which baby Moses, whom his mother had entrusted to the river inside a basket to save him from the s...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Sir Ralph Warton (1656-1709) Of Beverley, Yorkshire, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Sir Ralph Warton (1656-1709) Of Beverley, Yorkshire, 17th Century
English School
Large 17th Century portrait of Sir Ralph Warton, oil on canvas laid to board. Circa 1685 portrait of the young knight and member of Parliament to James II to which this portrait would have been commissioned in commemoration of. Portrayed within a feigned oval in armour and a white undershirt with black bow necktie...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Boy, John Closterman, Large English Portrait Art, Old Master
By John Closterman
Located in Greven, DE
John Clostermann
(Osnabrück 1660 - 1711 London)
Portrait of a boy, maybe Charles Hinde
Oil on canvas, 61 x 74,6 cm
John Closterman (also Klosterman) was a portrait painter of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He primarily portrayed English noblemen and European aristocratic families. His father was already an artist and he trained his son. In 1679 he went to Paris and studied with Francois de Troy. In 1681 he was in London and worked for the artist John Riley, whose studio he took over after his death. In 1696 he was invited to the Spanish court...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17' century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subje...
Category
Academic 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century oil on canvas painting 'Ectasy of Saint Cecilia'
Located in Oostende, BE
This unique painting is called 'Ectasi of Saint Cecilia' and was painted by the Italian painter Bartolomeo Guidobono, nickname The Savona Priest (1654-1709)
Work of great pictorial ...
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Italian School 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Exquisite Pair of 17th Century Capriccios by Viviano Codazzi
Located in London, GB
VIVIANO CODAZZI (c. 1603-1672)
A Pair of Architectural Cappriccios
Oil on Canvas
24 x 28 7/8 inches (60.8 x 73.2 cms)
Provenance: Collection Pérez d...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor & Archduke of Austria, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor & Archduke of Austria, 17th Century
follower of Giulio Romano (1492-1546)
Fine large 16th Century Italian S...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Two Scenes of Diana and Actaeon (a pair)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996
Private Collection, USA
Giovanni Battista Viola was born in Bologna a...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Copper
"Tavern Gathering" by David Teniers the Younger original oil painting from 1646
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Dallas, TX
This Flemish Baroque art by David Teniers the Younger’s is a captivating masterpiece, “Tavern Gathering,” painted in 1646. Renowned as the preeminent Flemish genre painter of his tim...
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Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
17th Century by Onofrio Loth Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Onofrio Loth (Naples, Italy, 1665 – 1717)
Title: Still life
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 37.5 x 47.5 cm – with frame 50 x 57 cm
Original ebonised wooden frame wit...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Nobleman in Armour, 17th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 35 inches (76.25 x 89 cm)
Carved gilt frame
A half-length portrait of a man turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, standing, wearing st...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allegories of Prudence and Justice, 1600s
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Italian school of the seventeenth century.
The two paintings are probably part of a group depicting the four cardinal virtues, namely Justice, Prudence, Temperance and...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Panel
Scena di Battaglia
Located in Como, IT
Antonio Calza (1653-1725)
Scena di Battaglia
Olio su tela in cornice dorata
Dimensioni: 45x60 cm (68,5 x 84,5 cm inclusa la cornice)
Fine del XVII secolo
Nacque nel 1653 a Verona d...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait in Period Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully painted Baroque style oil on board portrait of a lady wearing an embroidered top with ruffled collar. Her bonnet edged in delicate lace.
Dated 1619 on the top left fron...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ritratto figurativo maschile scuola toscana del XVII secolo olio su tela
Located in Florence, IT
Dipinto di scuola toscana della seconda metà del XVII secolo raffigurante un ritratto maschile di tre quarti, immerso nell'eleganza e nella maestosità proprie dell'epoca. La figura è...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Of Fruit, Wine, Bread & Nuts, 17th Century FLORIS CLAESZ VAN DYCK
Located in Blackwater, GB
Still Life Of Fruit, Wine, Bread & Nuts, 17th Century
circle of FLORIS CLAESZ VAN DYCK (1575-1671)
17th century Dutch Still life of fruit, oil on panel. Excellent quality and condi...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of Abundance
By (After) Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Milan, IT
Rubensian school, 17th century
Allegory of abundance
Oil on panel, 30.5 x 45 cm
With frame 38.5 x 55 cm
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto ritratto femminile figurativo barocco emiliano del XVII secolo
By Girolamo Negri called Il Boccia
Located in Florence, IT
olio su tela, 62 x 51 cm (senza cornice)
Il dipinto è stato per lungo attribuito alla mano di Francesco Gessi, allievo di Guido Reni, come riporta un'iscrizione a matita datata 1945...
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Baroque 17th Century 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.
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Anthony the Abbot in a Natural Landscape - Flemish School
Located in Firenze, IT
Saint Anthony The Abbot In A Natural Landscape. Flemish School, Late 16th - Early 17th Century
Technique: Oil on panel
Period: late 16th - Early 17th Century
School: Flemish
Dimensi...
Category
Renaissance 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Allegory Of Motherhood & Charity, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
An Allegory Of Motherhood & Charity, 17th Century
Huge Italian Old Master
Huge circa 1600 Italian Old Master scene of a mother and infants as an al...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venetian 17th century baroque painting of mythological theme oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting, oil on canvas 95 x 137 unframed, depicts a bacchanal: on the left we see a figure who, from the detail of the paw seems to be a satyr, intent on raising a bowl forerunn...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Melancholic Gentleman, 17th century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 72.25 cm)
This is a striking 17th century half-portrait of a man. He sits with his body turned to the left and his head to the right. His left hand is held in front of him with thumb and finger together. He wears a loose white shirt that is opened low down onto chest while being closed at his neck with a black ribbon. An orange cloak has also been draped across his arms in a rather dramatic manner.
This choice of costume is immediately notable and must be compared to other portraits of this time of Elizabethan courtiers wearing slashed silk outfits with ostentatious finery and silver swords. Indeed, if one examines 17th century English...
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17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Moses Saved by the Waters, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The scene recounts the biblical episode from the book of 'Exodus in which baby Moses, whom his mother had entrusted to the river inside a basket to save him from the ...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century By Hendrick Van Somer Saint Jerome Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Hendrick van Somer o Someren o de Somer (Lokeren, Belgium, 1607 - Naples, Italy, 1656)
Title: Saint Jerome
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 91 x 72 cm - with frame 108...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aeneas Fleeing the Burning of Troy, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Firenze, IT
This oil painting on canvas, created by an artist from the 17th Century Flemish School, depicts one of the most significant scenes from Greco-Roman mythology: Aeneas saving his famil...
Category
Dutch School 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allegory of Summer, workshop of Hendrick Van Balen 17th c. Antwerp school
By Hendrick van Balen
Located in PARIS, FR
Allegory of summer, personified by Ceres
Workshop of Hendrick Van Balen
Antwerp School, early 17th century.
Oil on copper,
Dimensions: h. 52 cm, l. 40cm
Antic giltwood frame
Framed dimensions: h. 74 cm, l. 60cm
Very good condition
Our delicately painted work is part of the pictorial tradition that is both allegorical and mythological in vogue in Antwerp, whose leaders are Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick Van Balen. Numerous works emerging from their workshops illustrate mythological subjects, the seasons, the elements, the senses or intertwining the lush landscapes, animals and gods of Olympus.
At the heart of a green landscape dominated in its center by a generous apple tree, the beautiful Ceres, partially dressed in a large blue drape, is wearing a crown of ears of wheat, her symbol of the goddess of the earth and harvests. She holds the sickle in her right hand and carries sheaves of wheat. To her right a nymph holds the cornucopia while puttis pick and offer flowers.
In the foreground are the summer fruits: figs, cherries, apples and lemons. A squirrel munching on cherries symbolizes toil and foresight, themes that are echoed in the work of the harvesters on the wheat fields in the background.
The background is composed of vegetation, on the right a wild rose bush with its branches erect against a tree trunk, in the center of the trees with silvery green foliage.
Our painter, a student of Hendrick Van Balen, finds his inspiration in the works of the master such as this nymph in yellow drapery seen from behind, one of the figures which accompanies many of the master's paintings. The elegant gestures, the flesh...The indisputable influence of Jan Brueghel the Younger is revealed in the treatment of trees and flowers, wild roses, tulips as well as in the still life with the squirrel in the foreground.
The craze for this type of virtuoso painting where the mythological figures are only a pretext to better illustrate the landscape and plant species surrounding them, then generated orders from all over Europe.
Hendrick Van Balen, Flemish painter, born and died in Antwerp (1575-1632). A student of Adam Van Noort, he entered the guild of Saint-Luc in 1593, later trained in Italy and was Van Dyck's first master. He often painted small characters taken from scenes from the Bible or classical mythology, on paintings in which Josse de Momper...
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Old Masters 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Copper
Port with Villa Medici
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original painting of 1637 owned by the Uffizzi Museum in Florence, Italy. This is a fully restored copy.
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting with a Healing Scene 17th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on copper. Flemish school of the seventeenth century.
The painting, attributed by oral tradition to Frans Francken the younger (1581 -1642), depicts a miraculous healing perform...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of Franz von Sickingen Knight Of The Holy Roman Empire (1481-1523)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Franz von Sickingen Knight Of The Holy Roman Empire (1481-1523)
Italian School
Large 16th/17th Century Italian Old Master portrait of Franz von Sickingen, Knight Of The...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Religious Subject Oil on Canvas Italy XVII Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. It is a vintage copy of the engraving of the same name made by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), which had immediate success and gave rise to a series of printed replicas and painted copies. It presents the moment of the Passion in which Christ is crowned with the crown of thorns, the object of torture, the disparaging symbol of his proclamation as King of Kings. The act is performed by two figures, the Roman soldier and the Jew, representing the two people who they took part in Christ's death sentence. The figures, vigorous and sanguine, those of the two tormentors paler and more inert than the victim, create an intertwined composition of bodies, with that of the central Jesus joining the other two, uniting them in the shared responsibility of what they are doing; placed sideways, Jesus has his head bent forcibly to the left by the soldier who imposes the crown of thorns on him, while the Jew on the right places the bamboo cane in his hand, replacing the scepter. The scene is dominated by gloomy and dark colors, among which only the bright red of Christ's robe stands...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life of Summer Flowers in a Basket with Fruit.
By Pieter Casteels III
Located in Taunton, GB
Still life of Summer Flowers in a Basket with Fruit.
Circa 1730
Oil On Canvas
32 ¾ x 48 ¼ inches83.1 x 122.5 cm
Presented in a 17th century Italian carved gilt frame.
Acquired from The collection of the Late Edgar Wigan, Bradstone Brook, Shalford.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
The son of the Flemish painter Pieter Casteels II (referred to as Casteels the Younger) whom he studied under. While Casteels II was best known for his capriccio harbour scenes and landscapes of his native Antwerp, Casteels III worked primarily in England, where he immigrated in 1708 at the age of 24 and began his career copying Old Master.
Casteels III painted still lives of flowers, and bird and game scenes, and in 1726 produced a volume of twelve plates of bird etchings. Following the success of the publication, he created similar volumes for both flowers and fruit. Pieter Casteels III...
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Flemish School 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Dancing Putti, Pan, Satyr, Rubens School, Model
By Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
Located in Greven, DE
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
Pan plays to the dance of the putti
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614 Bergen op Zoom - 1654 Antwerp)
Pan plays to the dance of the putti
Oil sketch
Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 cm
Provenance:
Belgian private collection, ca. 1980 to 2020.
The oil sketch shows a flute-playing man with dark curls sitting at the left edge
of the picture in a recess draped with cloth. In the lower left corner, a fallen
bowl with leaking water can be seen. The right half of the picture shows a circle
of five dancing putti, whereby the left putti can be recognized as a satyr due to
the goat legs. The background is dominated by a dark mountain landscape. In
the sky a rising or setting sun can be guessed. It is possible that the flute player
represents Bacchus, the god of wine and ecstasy. This fits with the flute as a
symbol of celebration, as well as the bowl of water, which could refer to
Bacchus' mother, Lethe. Lethe is a river in the underworld, which at the same
time symbolizes "oblivion". Thus, the spilling water bowl is not only a reference
to this river, but it also symbolizes "oblivion". Moreover, Bacchus is usually
depicted with satyrs in his retinue, which would explain the putto with goat legs.
However, the interpretation of the flute player as the god Pan would be
possible. He is usually shown with his flute and associated with dance.
Moreover, he is native to the mountainous landscape of Arcadia.
The present work is an oil sketch, i.e. a preparatory study. This is suggested by
the partly unfinished parts, as well as the structure of the picture. Some parts
are already almost completely laid out, such as the flute player, while others, for
example the horizon and also the figures of the putti, are only sketched in
outline.
The painting can be attributed to the Baroque painter Thomas Willeboirts
Bosschaert. This attribution was also confirmed by Prof. Hans Vlieghe.
Bosschaert lived and worked in Antwerp with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis
van Dyck, among others. He studied with Gerard Seghers...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of a Lady Holding Statuette - Italian Baroque Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This fantastic Italian Baroque 17th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Carlo Dolci. Painted circa 1685, the composition is a waist length portrait of...
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Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anthony van Dyck, Engraving Ernest de Mansfeld, c. 1654, Portrait, Iconographie
Located in Greven, DE
A wonderfully detailed and charismatic portrait, this exquisite work illustrates the technical mastery and artistic vision of Van Dyck. Ernest de Mansfeld's stately yet approachable expression reflects Van Dyck's refined ability to comfort and relax his subjects, resulting in a realistic and acute portrait. Ernest de Mansfeld was a German military commander during the early years of the Thirty Years War. Donning his armor and an ornate, lace collar, de Mansfeld appears as a strong commander. Without a hint of a smile, he calmly gazes out, the definition of cool and collected. Van Dyck accurately captures the sense that de Mansfeld is a man who takes his job seriously, a man worthy of commanding an army in battle.
This portrait is a Mauquoy-Hendrickx State II (of II), engraved by Robertus van Voerst in collaboration with Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1559 - London, 1641) as part of his Iconographie series of engraved portraits of famous people...
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Baroque 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
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 ...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Antique 17th Century Floral Still Life Paintings, attr. Vincenzino
Located in London, GB
Pair of Antique 17th Century Floral Still Life Paintings, Attributed to Vincenzino
Italian, second half 17th Century
Dimensions: Frame height 111cm, width 170cm, depth 7cm; Canvas he...
Category
17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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