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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Item Ships From: Milan
17th-18th Century By Matteo Bonechi Marine Triumph Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Matteo Bonechi (Florence, Italy, 1669 - 1756)
Title: Triumph
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 65 x 80 cm - with frame 85 x 100 cm
Expertise by Professor Sandro Belles...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Cristoforo Serra Portrait of a Shepherd Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cristoforo Serra (Cesena, Italy, 1600 - 1689)
Title: Portrait of a Shepherd
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 92 x 75 cm - with frame 106.5 x 94.5 cm
Antique gilt-wood...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
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 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Board 'Rape of Europa' Pseudo Giampietrino B, 1930s-40s, 16th cent
Located in Milan, IT
In the panel depicting the mythological episode of the Rape of Europa, the foreground is occupied by the two main characters: Zeus in the guise of a bull, his neck and horns adorned ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century by Antonio Stom Architectural Capriccio Oil on Canvas_
By Antonio Stom
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Antonio Stom (Venice, Italy, c. 1688 - 1734)
Title: Architectural Capriccio
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 88 x 113 cm - with frame 106 x 132 cm
Carved, sculpted and...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Painted Landscape with Shepherdess and Sheep late 1700s
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Central European school of the late 1700s.
The large painting depicts a rural landscape, with a peasant dwelling on the left, the shepherdess in the left foreground wa...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century by Gaspare Diziani Cupids at play Oil on canvas
By Gaspare Diziani
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Gaspare Diziani (Belluno, Italy, 1689 – Venice, Italy, 1767)
Title: Cupids at play
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 85 x 175 cm – with frame
Publications: La Pittura...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon
Mythological Subject, Italy XVII Century, The Tale of Apollo and Marsyas
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the seventeenth century. The large canvas derives from an engraving of 1562 by the Venetian Giulio Sanuto, who faithfully reproduce...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting Holy Family with Saints 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Venetian school of the 17th century.
The figures, portrayed in the half-length foreground, have Mary placed in the center holding the infant Jesus; behind them on the ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
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 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jefte and his daughter, Girolamo Forabosco and aides, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
The painting depicts Jephthah and his daughter, two Old Testament biblical characters. The girl is depicted in profile,dressed in the clothing of a seventeenth-century Venetian lady: the low-cut dress, tightened at the waist
by a golden belt...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Polidoro de Renzi called Polidoro da Lanciano, Holy Family with Saint John
Located in Milan, IT
Polidoro de Renzi known as Polidoro da Lanciano (Lanciano, 1515 - Venice, 1565) (attr.)
Holy Family with San Giovannino
Oil on canvas, 76 x 93 cm
Framed, 88 x 104 cm
The valuable...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Landscape with Figures and Herds 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. French school of the 2nd half of the 18th century.
Bucolic is this verdant countryside landscape, opening up in the background into bluish fields and mountains.
In the...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carataco painting in front of Emperor Claudius 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern European school of the 18th century.
Carataco was a Celtic king of the Briton tribe Catuvellauni and leader of the anti-Roman resistance and famous as a freed...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting with The Rape of the Sabine Women, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Roman school of the 17th century.
The large scene depicts the famous episode somewhere between real history and legend, first recounted by Titus Livius in his "Ab urb...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century By Vincenzo Re The Pool of Bethesda Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Vincenzo Re (Parma, Italy, 1695 - Naples, Italy, 1762)
Title: The Pool of Bethesda
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 50 x 62 cm - wi...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Felice Torelli Hagar and the Angel Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Felice Torelli (Verona, Italy, 1667 - Bologna, Italy, 1748)
Title: Hagar and the Angel
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 41 x 116 cm - wit...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
17th century By Neapolitan Maestro San Vincenzo Ferreri Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Neapolitan Maestro
Title: San Vincenzo Ferreri
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 63 x 48.5 cm - with frame 77 x 63.5 cm
Original shaped, carved, sculpted a...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Landscape with Shepherdess and Ruins 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Signed " Schütz fecit" on the ruin to the right of the shepherdess.
Christian Georg Schütz the Elder captures an idyllic, serene landscape crossed by a meandering, slo...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century By French Maestro Bacchanal Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
18th Century French Maestro
Title: Bacchanal
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 24 x 30 cm - with frame 33.5 x 39 cm
Antique shaped wooden frame lacquered in mustard col...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Venus in the Forge of Vulcan 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Roman school of the 17th century.
In classical mythology, the goddess Venus, wife of Vulcan, had him forge weapons for her son Aeneas.
In the scene, set in the cave wh...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
15th Century By Maestro della Pala Sforzesca Ecce Homo Tempera on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
15th Century Maestro della Pala Sforzesca
Title: Ecce Homo
Medium: Tempera on Panel
Dimensions: without frame 64.9 x 53.2 – with frame 82 x 70 x 5 cm
Beautiful "cassetta" frame in e...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Aeneas Salmeggia, Ecce Homo
Located in Milan, IT
Enea Salmeggia known as Talpino (Bergamo, 1565 - 1626), second decade of the 17th century
Ecce homo
Oil on canvas, 84 x 61 cm
Framed, 103 x 77 cm
The work presented here depicts ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Giuseppe Bonito The Painter's Studio or Allegory of Painting
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giuseppe Bonito (Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, 1707 - Naples, Italy, 1789)
Title: The Painter's Studio or Allegory of Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Preaching of St. John the Baptist, Workshop of Fans Francken II, 1600s
Located in Milan, IT
The sermon of the Baptist is set in a large open space, with rich vegetation and wooded glimpses, and on the back, in the distance, you can see the buildings of a city.
The scene see...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
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 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Herman Posthumus (East Frisia, 1512/1513 - Amsterdam, 1588), Leda
Located in Milan, IT
Herman Posthumus (East Frisia, 1512/1513 - Amsterdam, 1588)
Leda & the Swan
Oil on canvas, 87.5 x 142 cm
Framed, 107 x 161 cm
Initial 'P' in the center of a pillow decoration
Cr...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century by Cesare Pronti Martyrdom of Saint Agatha Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cesare Pronti (Cattolica, Italy, 1626 - Ravenna, Italy, 1708)
Title: Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Without frame 57.7 x 37 cm – with frame 64 x 42.7 x 3...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th-18th Century By Hendrick Govaerts Genre Scene Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Hendrick Govaerts (Mechelen, Belgium, 1669 - 1720)
Title: Genre Scene
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 48.5 x 60 cm - with frame 63 x 72 x 6 cm
Oral Expertise by Lisa...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Portrait of a Young Nobleman XVII century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. 17th century Dutch school.
The young nobleman, very serious, looks out from an oval painted frame, on which he rests his hand to flaunt the ring of the household.
The...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier 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 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Male Portrait 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. 17th century Dutch school.
The young nobleman, very serious, looks out from an oval painted frame, on which he rests his hand to flaunt the family ring.
The painting...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century by Juan Alfonso Abril Head of St Paul Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Juan Alfonso Abril (active in the 17th century in Valladolid, Spain)
Title: Head of Saint Paul
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 48.5 x 62 ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Mexican Maestro Virgin of Solitude Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Mexican Maestro
Title: Virgin of Solitude
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 165 x 123 cm - with frame 194 x 152 cm
Bla...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Landscape with Scene of Preaching 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Venetian school of the 18th century.
The large northern landscape, with verdant mountain slopes in the midst of which a river flows, is inhabited by several figures in...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circle of Maarten de Vos, Christ Mocked
Located in Milan, IT
Workshop of Maarten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532 - December 4, 1603)
Christ mocked
Oil on panel, 63 x 50 cm
Framed, 80 x 100 cm
The artist responsible for the execution of this painting...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting The Preaching of St. John the Baptist, 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. North Italian school of the 17th-18th centuries.
The large scene is filled with figures in ancient Eastern garb, set in a northern, richly vegetated landscape with mou...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century By Guidotti aka Cavalier Borghese Salomé and the Baptist Oil/canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cavaliere Paolo Guidotti, also known as il Cavalier Borghese (Lucca, Italy, 1559 - 1629)
Title: Salomé and the Baptist
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 90 x 68.5 cm -...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Andrea Locatelli Landscape with fisherman Oil on canvas
By Andrea Locatelli
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Andrea Locatelli (Rome, Italy, 1695 – 1741)
Title: Landscape with fisherman
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Without frame 27 x 28.5 cm – with frame 35 x 47.6 x 3.5 cm
Expertise b...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Landscape with Shepherds and Herds 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The large scene, set in a hilly countryside, with a village and ruins in the background on the left, is completely occupied by the compact group of the many living fi...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century by Evangelista Schiano Saint Gennaro Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Evangelista Schiano (attr.) (active in the 18th century)
Title: Saint Gennaro
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 102 x 74 cm - with frame 126.5 x 100 cm
19th century car...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Luca Forte Walnuts, Chestnuts, a Bunch of Grapes and a Quince
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Luca Forte (Naples, 1615 ca. - 1670 ca.)
Title: Walnuts, Chestnuts, a Bunch of Grapes and a Quince
Medium: Oil on walnut panel
Dimensions: 12.5 x 22 cm
Expertise by Nicola Spinosa, ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Painting Winter Landscape with Figures late 1700s early 1800s
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The wide view frames a snowy mountain landscape, with a wide valley under sharp peaks, in which a small lake opens; small figures of wayfarers walk along the path fro...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century By Domenico Maria Canuti Assumption of the Virgin Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Domenico Maria Canuti (Bologna, Italy, 1626 – 1684)
Title: Assumption of the Virgin
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 138 x 104.5 cm without frame
Expertise by Professor Micaela Li...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Lombard Artist Still Life with Birds and Burning Fuse Oil/canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
"Cassetta" frame in sculpted, carved, gilded wood.
Expertise by Gianluca Bocchi.
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century by Pietro Montanini Landscape Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
PIETRO MONTANINI (Perugia, Italy, 1619 - 1689)
Title: Landscape
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 50 x 65 cm - with frame 64 x 79 cm
An...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
16th Century by Cristofano Roncalli Saint Catherine of Siena Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cristoforo (Cristofano) Roncalli (Pomarance, Italy, 1552 - Rome, Italy, 1626)
Title: Saint Catherine of Siena chooses the crown of thorns
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: without frame 101.5 x 59.5 cm - with frame 120 x 76 cm
Shaped, carved and sculpted wooden cassetta frame, partly gilded and partly ebonized wood
Expertise by Marco Ciampolini and Alessandro Nesi, art historians
The marvellous scene that opens before our eyes is that of Christ's apparition to Saint Catherine of Siena; she must choose between a golden crown, the symbol of earthly royalty, and a crown of thorns, the symbol of virtuous Christian sacrifice. Catherine does not hesitate to choose the crown of thorns, her life in imitation of...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Allegory of Winter
Located in Milano, IT
This painting depicts a fascinating allegory of winter, attributed to Francesco Zucchi, an 18th-century Venetian artist. The work depicts an anthropomorphic figure composed of fruits...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Christ and the Adulteress Flemish school 16th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Board. Flemish school of the 16th century.
The work bears a plaque at the base attributing it to Lambert Van Noort (1520 -1571), justified by the proximity to his painterly ma...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting Moses Saved from the Waters 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The painting looks to the similar work by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), dated around 1560-70 and now in the Prado Museum, from which our painting takes up the compositio...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
16th Century by Venetian Maestro Deposition of Christ Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
16th Century Venetian Maestro
Title: Deposition of Christ
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: without frame 40 x 25 cm
Formerly Canesso Collection, Paris.
Fairs: The International Biennial of Antiques in Florence 2022 (BIAF, Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze)
Publications: Bozzetti, modelletti, sketches: dalla collezione di Giorgio Baratti (From the Giorgio Baratti Collection) curated by Anna Orlando, Agnese Marengo and Annalisa Scarpa, Genoa, 2022, pp. 22, 23.
In this precious panel we can admire a lament over the body of Christ by a large group of bystanders among whom we can recognise the Virgin and, in the foreground, St Catherine of Alexandria...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Circle of Johann Anton Eismann canvas with landscape with ruins and figures
Located in Milan, IT
Workshop of Johann Anton Eismann (1604-1698)
Landscape with ruins and figures
Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 93 cm
Framed, 123 x 104 cm
The background depicts a rocky shoreline facing th...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century By Giovanni Domenico Gambone Pair of Capricci Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Domenico Gambone (1720 - 1793)
Title: Pair of Capricci
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 85 x 112 cm - with frame 97 x 124 cm
The price is intended for the c...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Martino Altomonte, St. Ursula in Gloria
Located in Milan, IT
Martino Altomonte (Naples, 1657 - Vienna, 1745), attr.
Saint Ursula in Glory
Oil on canvas, 135 x 88 cm
The earliest records of St. Ursula's life date back to the 9th century, wh...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Architectural Capriccio with Figures 18th 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Second half 18th century.
A portion of a large ruined architectural structure fills the entire scene: a portico topped by a balustrade, overgrown with plants, surroun...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circle of Jan Miense Molenaer, Gender Scene
By Jan Miense Molenaer
Located in Milan, IT
Circle of Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem, c. 1610 - 1668)
Genre scene
Oil on canvas, 87 x 69 cm
Frame, 88 x 105 cm
Jan Miense Molenaer was a Dutch painter, among the exponents of t...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century By Agostino Beltrano The Procession to Calvary Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Agostino Beltrano (Naples, Italy, 1607 - 1665)
Title: The Procession to Calvary
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 98 x 122.5 cm - with frame 118 x 142.5 cm
Beautiful or...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Battle scene
Located in Milan, IT
Francesco Monti, known as Brescianino delle Battaglie (Brescia, 1646 - Piacenza, 1703)
Battle scene
Oil on canvas, 90 x 117.5 cm
Framed 112 x 139.5 cm
Francesco Monti, better kn...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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