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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings. 1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713. Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings. Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death. 2. Description of the drawing and related artworks Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions. His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s. The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Chalk

Attributed to C. W. E. Dietrich, Pendant Window Paintings, Oil on Wood
Located in Greding, DE
Pendant window pictures attributed to Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy (1712 Weimer - 1774 Dresden). Typical genre depiction of two pretty young ladies leaning out of arched windows. Both ladies are shown open-hearted with white blouses. One painting shows a lady with a red hair band and red cheeks leaning on a low railing and looking at the observer with a slightly glassy gaze. The window opening is framed with vine tendrils and a Mediterranean potted plant on the left edge of the painting. The other painting shows a young beauty with flowers in her hair, leaning loosely out of a window opening with a relief depiction of putti and the same green vine leaves. A red velvet...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame . Giovanni Battista Viola...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

18th century garden/park scene with fountain, animals, and figures
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century garden/park scene with fountain, animals, and figures. Tribute to Jacques De La Jove. Oil on canvas. No visible signature. 18 x 24 on framed, 23 x 30.75 framed.
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic - Early 17th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Flemish School, Early 17th Century Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic Oil on panel Image size: 15¾ x 13⅛ inches This accomplished portrait of an unknown boy in his early teens was p...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil, Panel

A Pair of Venetian Canal Scenes- San Giorgio Maggiore & Santa Maria Della Salute
By Francesco Guardi
Located in West Sussex, GB
Circle of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Venetian Canal Scenes, a pair -San Giorgio Maggiore from the Bacino di San Marco -Santa Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal Oils on ca...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Christian Reder (Italian master) - 18th centurylandscape painting - Soldiers
By Christian Reder (Monsù Leandro)
Located in Varmo, IT
Christian Reder (Leipzig 1656 - Rome 1729) - The departure of the soldiers from the fort. 57.5 x 108.5 cm without frame, 89 x 122 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Painting with Scene of Battle mid-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. The scene depicts a battle between an army of Moors and white soldiers, defending a fortification from which cannons are firing, while in the background a white city e...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

18th Century Oil on Canvas French Biblical Painting Susanna and the Elders, 1710
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Splendid painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas painting depicting a fascinating biblical scene, Susanna and the elders. A chaste woman is threatened by two ...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist
By Andrea Del Sarto
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Florentine, mid-16th century Circle of Tomaso D’Antonio Manzuoli, known as Maso da San Friano (1536-1571) The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist After Andrea del Sarto (1486-1...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Still Life of Roses in a Glass Vase
Located in London, GB
Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen 1664-1730 Still Life of Roses in a Glass Vase Oil on oak panel Image size: 8 ¾ x 7 ½ inches (22.25 x 19 cm) Contemporary Dutch ebonised style frame This int...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Oak

Still Life of Fruit in a Wicker Basket with Bird
Located in London, GB
Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen 1664-1730 Still Life of Fruit in a Wicker Basket with Bird Oil on oak panel Image size: 8 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (21 x 19 cm) Contemporary Dutch ebonised style f...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oak, Oil, Panel

Pair of Antique Indo Persian Illustrations of Cultural Events
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of intriguing 18th Century Indo Persian gouache paintings on paper of Indian culture. Presented under glass in silver tone wood frames.
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Gouache

The annunciation to the shepherds 17th Century painting on agate
Located in Milan, IT
THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPERDS Italy, 17th Century Painting on agate in an ebonised wood, gilt bronze and semi-precious stone frame 38 x 31 cm - 15 x 12 1/4 in with frame 14 x 8.5 cm - 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in without frame Although quite rare, across the centuries the art of painting on stone...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Marble

Portrait of a Lady, circle of Mary Beale, 17th century British
By (Circle of) Mary Beale
Located in London, GB
Painting of a lady, circle of Mary Beale (1633–1699), who was one of the first professional female portrait painters in England and a pioneering figure for women in the arts during t...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Mme de Noirmont", Oil on Canvas Portrait, circa 18th Century
By (circle of) Nicolas de Largillierre
Located in Detroit, MI
This painting titled "Mme de Noirmont" is an oil on canvas work from the studio of Nicolas de Largilliere, one of the most prolific and esteemed French portrait painters of the 18th ...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Adhesive, Oil

Portrait of Mrs Faber, 18th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
THOMAS HUDSON 1701 – 1779 Portrait of Mrs Faber Oil on canvas Image size: 29 x 24 ½ inches Contemporary gilt frame Mrs Faber was the wife of John Faber J...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Circle of Carlo Cignani, Allegory of Charity
By Carlo Cignani
Located in Milan, IT
Circle of Carlo Cignani (Bologna, 1628 - Forlì, 1719) Allegory of Charity, by Nicola Vaccaro (Naples, 1640 - 1709) Oil on canvas, 119 x 93 cm Framed, 137 x 110 cm Bologna-born p...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Portrait of a Lady
Located in London, GB
Gilbert Soest Portrait of a Lady 1605-1681 Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm) Original carved gilt frame Provenance Private Estate, England Gilbert Soest Gil...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pair of Italian 18' century Paintings with Gardens
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian 18' century paintings , oil on canvas with Venetian Palace gardens , antiques sculptures and various figures . Measurements with frame cm 75 x101
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

Materials

Oil

Late 18th Century British Oil Painting Figures by Blacksmiths Forge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Blacksmiths Forge British artist, late 18th century Circle of Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817) oil on board, unframed board: 11 x 14.5 inches provenance: private collection, En...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

"Life of Aegidius of St. Gilles.."
Located in Edinburgh, GB
18th-19th Century Oil Painting – "Life of Aegidius of St. Gilles" A captivating 18th-19th century oil painting illustrating a dramatic episode from the life of St. Aegidius (St. Gile...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cherubim Hovering Woman in Wilderness 17th Century Italian Old Master Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Italian School, 17th century oil on canvas (laid on board), framed framed: 15 x 21 inches board: 14 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound ...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Cristal pintado - Siglo XVIII - XIX - La Sagrada Familia.
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Bonito cristal pintado al reverso representando a la Sagrada familia. De finales del siglo XVIII - principios del XIX. Tiene un marco ovalado de madera, el cristal tiene algunas fa...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

17th Century German Baroque Oil Painting Shepherds & Flocks in Landscape
By Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shepherds in Field German School, late 17th century circle of Philipp Peter Roos (1655-1706) oil on canvas 19 x 31 inches, unframed provenance: private collection, France condition: ...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Lady . Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger. ( Paris, 1612-1689), attrib
By Louis Elle (Ferdinand)
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a lady . Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger. ( Paris, 1612-1689), attributed. Circa 1680. Oil on canvas, resting on cardboard. In 19th-century giltwood frame. A female...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting Holy Family, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian religious painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas painting depicting a splendid Holy Family with the sleeping baby Jesus...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

17th Century Oil on Canvas Flemish Painting Rinaldo and Armida, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Great Flemish painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting the love story between Rinaldo and Armida told in Jerusalem Delivered, the most impor...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Genre Scene with Still Life
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a genre scene with greengrocer and still life of good pictorial quality. Painting of exceptional size ...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pair of Battle Scenes - Oil Painting - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Battle Scenes is an oil painting realized by an italian artist in 18th century. 110x85 cm each. Framed. Good conditions.
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pair of 17th Century Oil on Canvas Still Life Lombard School Paintings, 1680s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Rare pair of Italian paintings from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artworks from the Lombard school depicting splendid vases of flowers with birds and insects, of...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

17th Century Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas Goddess And Cherub, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This captivating painting portrays a mythological or allegorical scene, where a reclining nude woman, partially draped in a flowing red cloth, lies in a dreamlike landscape beside a ...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Italian School of the 17th Century : Saint Jerome with a Lion - Oil Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Italy : Venetian school of the 17th century Saint Jerome wit a Lion, circa 1620 Oil on panel Unsigned On wood board 49 x 30 cm Good condition, accidents/wear (see photos)
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Penitent Magdalene - 17th century painter
Located in Como, IT
Penitent Magdalene Italian painter of the 17th century Oil on copper in gilt frame Size: 22x17 cm (33x28 cm including frame) Mary Magdalene is the repentant sinner who washed Jesus'...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Copper

Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame . Giovanni Battista Viola...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

"Burn Scar (No. 4)" Mixed Media Forest Fragment on Canvas by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
"Burn Scar (No. 4)" is a 16.5 x 23-inch work made with ink, paper, burnt branches, charcoal, and stucco on buried canvas. Katherine Filice uses scorched natural materials to tell a s...
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Abstract 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Found Objects, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, ...

Painting Moses Makes Water Flow from the Rock XVII-XVIII century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Set in a classical, richly vegetated landscape, the scene depicts the biblical episode from the book of Genesis that tells how the people of Israel, who are crossing t...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Richly adorned riverscape, late 17th century, Dutch golden age
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Gerrit Maes (1649-1706 or later), attributed Richly adorned riverscape Signed and dated in the mid-frame, presumably 'Maasius F. 1695' Oil on canvas Dimensions excl. frame: 58 x 82 ...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Painting Still Life with Flowers and Fruit 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Italian school of the 17th-18th centuries. A large composition of colorful flowers in embossed metal vases and some fruits scattered on the ground are placed against a...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Painted Country Festival 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Flemish School 18th century. Lively and eventful scene depicting a folk festival in the village: a group of men and women in front of the village inn, recognizable by ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame . Giovanni Battista Viola...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Painted Landscape with Buildings and Figures 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Of large format and octagonal outline, the canvas features a landscape inscribed in a painted frame with friezes, falling into the category of eighteenth-century pain...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Young Girl with a Basket of Fruit
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
French School, late 18th century, circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) Young Girl with a Basket of Fruit Oil on canvas, preparatory work, 39 x 31 cm Provenance: Private colle...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dionysus Bacco Roman school 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Caravaggesque northern artist active in Rome in the 17th century, active in Rome in the 17th century. Workshop of Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592 – Utrecht, 1656) Dionysus/Bacch...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Announcing Angel Gabriel Maratta 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The Announcing Angel Carlo Maratta (Camerano, 1625 – Rome, 1713)Workshop Oil on canvas 63 x 75 cm. - Gilded wood frame 89 x 75 cm. Excellent condition, restored, 19th century ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Pair of Antique Framed Indo Persian Illustrated Manuscripts
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Historical pair of 18th Century Indo Persian manuscripts hand decorated in gouache depicting cultural events. Presented under glass in gilt wood frames.
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Gouache

By Giovanni Battista del Verrocchio, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Battista del Verrocchio, known as The Master of Volterra (Florence 1494 - 1569) Madonna with Child and San Giovannino Oil on panel, 63 x 50 cm Frame: 92 x 80 cm The styl...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil, Board

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 Paintings

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Oil

Young girl in pink toilet
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

George Morland (1763-1804) "Piglets" Original Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
George Morland (1763-1804) "Piglets" original watercolor on paper Signed & Dated 1791 Unframed 14" x 18" Framed 21" x 26"
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait of a priest Prémontré
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
French school around 1760 Portrait of a Premonstratensian Oil on canvas H. 81 cm ; W. 65 cm Traces of signature at the top left Provenance: Private collection, Versailles While the...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with fruits - Oil Paint On Canvas - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with fruits is an original oil on canvas realized in the 16th Century by an Italian School Master. Original oil painting on Canvas. The painting represents a still life...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Important 18th Century Pastel Portrait Painting Young Girl John Russell RA 1789
Located in Portland, OR
An important authenticated & documented 18th century portrait by John Russell R A (1745-1809), England, signed & dated 1789. This rather charming & sensitive portrait of a young girl...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil Pastel

From Paolo Veronese, Allegory of Strength and Wisdom
By Paolo Veronese
Located in Milan, IT
Follower of Paolo Veronese (Verona, 1528 - Venice, 1588) Allegory of wisdom and strength Oil on canvas, 48 x 36.5 cm Picture frame, 61 x 48 cm The Allegory of Wisdom and Strength...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Escuela Mejicana (XVIII) - San Antonio con niño
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Interesante oleo sobre tabla de San Antonio de padua realizado en el siglo xviii Es de escuela Mexicana El estado es bueno Medidas de la obra: ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Adoration of the Child Jesus, XVII century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italy school. The depiction of the Nativity is seen here as a contemplative moment of the Holy Child, by Mary and Joseph, accompanied by little angel...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Oil

Venetian Rococò painter - 18th century mask figure painting - Colombina Carnival
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian master (18th century) - Mask of Colombina. 161 x 68 cm without frame, 169.5 x 76.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a white lacquered wooden frame. Condi...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait Of A Horse, Favourite of King Louis XIV, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Horse, Favourite of King Louis XIV, 17th Century Early French School 17th century French Horse portrait of a favourite of King Louis XIV, from the Stables of Versaill...
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18th Century and Earlier Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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