18th Century Paintings
to
412
217
159
199
202
250
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
2,076
6,414
41,723
122,404
716
675
1,264
1,638
1,605
2,283
3,077
3,530
3,365
3,336
1,027
381
14
6
1
576
418
6
772
455
268
258
166
124
103
87
78
68
68
40
33
31
29
27
20
15
14
13
987
890
437
435
85
41
8
4
4
3
831
64
884
122
Period: 18th Century
Old Master portrait of a lady musician by the master or portraiture
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Pierre Paul Prud’hon (French, 1758-1823)
'La belle musicienne'
Oil on canvas, oval
Signed ‘P. P. Prudon’ (lower left)
28.3/4 x 23.1/2 in. (73 x 59.5 cm.)
Pierre Paul Prud'hon is considered a prime example of early French Romanticism. He was born as the seventh and last child of a master tailor. At the age of 16 he was a pupil of the painter and sculptor Francois Devosge. After finishing his studies he moved to Paris, where he first worked for an engraver and became friends with the Baron of Joursanvault, who became his patron. He also made a friendship with the "incorruptible", the politician and revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre. Despite important friendships and the care of some cardinals, Prud'hon plunges into loneliness and melancholy. He has a good reputation and produces allegorical paintings, but his attachment to Robespierre forces him to leave the French capital. He now lives in the Free County of Burgundy, where he makes portraits and illustrations for Pierre Didot, the owner of the printing house. After a few years he moved back to Paris and his career received a new impetus.
In the Louvre, Prud'hon is provided with a studio in which he paints "La sagesse et la vérité descendant sur la terre" (Wisdom and Truth descend to earth) for one year, as well as some ceilings of the Louvre. The government assigns him a studio in the Sorbonne, where his wife Jeanne, whom he married at the age of 19, comes looking for him. To escape her, he asks the museum director for protection. In 1808 he wrote "La justice et la vengeance divine poursuivant le crime" (Justice and divine revenge pursue the crime). In the same year he is also named Knight of the Legion of Honour and is able to break with his grumpy wife once and for all. He soon reconnects with his student and painter of neoclassicism Constance Mayer. Pierre is commissioned to paint a portrait of the Empress and wife of Napoleon, Joséphine de Beauharnais, which can still be seen today in the Louvre. He also paints the small "Roi de Rome" (King of Rome). In 1816 the Academy of Fine Arts elected him a member, where he took over the armchair in the painting section of François-André Vincent.
A few years later his depressed wife commits suicide, and full of pain Prud'hon finishes her last work "Une famille malheureuse" (Engl. An Unhappy Family) and exhibits it. He himself dies soon afterwards and is buried in Paris.
Many renowned artists admire Prud'hon for his "clair-obscur", the chiaroscuro painting...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
18th Century Biblical Scene Italian School Saint Joseph Oil on Canvas Brown Gold
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas depicting a soldier handing the crown to Saint Joseph, measuring 76 x 61 cm without frame and 95 x 80 cm with frame by an Italian School of the second half of ...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Blackwater, GB
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
circle of Francesco GUARDI (1712-1793)
Fine large Italian Old Master landscape view of figures in a ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,779 Sale Price
20% Off
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Francisco de Asís
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco del siglo xix en madera estucada y policromada (el marco presenta algún leve descolche)
El es...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Stag Hunting in the Vicinity of Nuremberg by a German Artist Peter von Bemmel
Located in PARIS, FR
This small landscape shows a hunting scene: two riders are chasing a stag with their dogs at the edge of a forest. Signed by Peter von Bemmel, it is typical of the production of this...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Copper
Still Life Of A Book Featuring A "Monastic Ode", 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Still Life Of A Book Featuring A "Monastic Ode", 18th Century
English School - Unique Still Life - Signed W. J.
Fine large 18th Century English still life study of an opened book l...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$7,494 Sale Price
20% Off
A Pair of 18th cent Dutch Still Life Watercolors Flowers in a Glass Vase 1797
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn (c. 1763- c. 1828)
A lovely pair of 18th century Dutch still life watercolors depicting assorted flowers in a glass vase.
Watercolor on paper
13 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (34.6 x 24.4 cm) each
Framed: 23 x 18 1/2 inches each
Signed: J.C.J. Bruyn 1797 G
(Please request photos of the actual frame)
Johannes de Bruyn made his debut as a flower and fruit still life painter in the 19th
century in Utrecht. He was a student of the painter G.J. van Hulstyn. In our pair of flower still lifes, Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn has depicted two bouquets of colorful flowers set in a stone niche. They are delicate, highly detailed, realistic pieces painted in the vein of seventeenth century Old Master works. Each bouquet is arranged in a low glass bowl on a small marble pedestal...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Gentleman, 18th Century Oil Painting
By Anton von Maron
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
Period gilt frame
This is a half-length portrait of a gentleman wearing a emerald coat and intricately designed waistcoat, dat...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arcian fantasy landscape"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Baroque "Arcadian Fantasy Landscape" – Oil on Canvas (circa 1700)
A mesmerizing early 18th-century Baroque landscape, capturing an idealized Arcadian vision of nature, architecture, ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coat Of Arms Lord Suffield, Sir Harbord Harbord 1st Baron Suffield 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Coat Of Arms Of Lord Suffield, Sir Harbord Harbord 1st Baron Of Suffield, MP for Norwich (1735-1810), 18th Century
English School Oil On Panel
Large circa 1784 Coat Of Arms to Lord...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,172 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian, hand painted, oil on canvas landscape with hand painted border. See other painting in separate listing that creates a pair.
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,800
18th Century Oil - The Pilgrim's Vision
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre painting depicts pilgrims gathering in a crowded interior scene, rendered in the characteristic chiaroscuro technique with dramatic contrasts between light and sh...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paysage Rocheux Animé Fond Ruine Suiveur De Jan Van Bloemenn (1662/1749)
Located in GOUVIEUX, FR
Huile sur toile du XVIIIe siècle, école flamande, dans la manière de Jan van Bloemen (1662-1749), peintre anversois installé à Rome, réputé pour ses paysages idéalisés de la campagne...
Category
Flemish School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
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
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mgnaminia'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
!8th Century Portrait of a Dame French School Woman Oil on Canvas Gold Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas measuring 92 x 75 cm without frame and 102 x 87 cm with frame depicting a rich lady of the French school of the first half of the 18th century.
In its formal ...
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Oil on Canvas French Battle Painting Alexander the Great and Porus
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Monumental 18th-century French battle. Oil painting on canvas depicting the Battle of Hydaspes, in which Alexander the Great defeated the Indian king Porus. A painting of considerabl...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait - Royal Academy Founding Member, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
Francis Hayman RA
1708–1776
Self-Portrait
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 8 x 6¼ inches
Contemporary gilt frame
This newly discovered work is the earliest known self portrait by Francis Hayman, dated to the mid to late 1720’s. The small scale of the portrait gives it a strong sense of intimacy. Whereas clients would often dress themselves in their best clothes for a sitting, Hayman has portrayed himself in informal attire, with his shirt unbuttoned and a wig cap.
Born in 1708 to a respectable Devonshire family, his training began at the tender age of ten under the tutelage of the historical painter Robert Brown, who was probably an uncle. By the 1730’s he is known to have been engaged in painting scenery for the popular theatres on Goodman’s Fields and Drury Lane. He established a studio on St Martin’s Lane, and demonstrated his versatility as one of the most
important painters of his time in portraits, illustration and history painting.
Indeed, he was one of the first English painters deemed to have the skill and proficiency to rival that of the foreign masters, such as Holbein and Kneller, who were brought in by the court to make up for the perceived shortcomings of the native artists. Led by William Hogarth, Hayman and other artists began to create a new movement in the English art world. Thomas Gainsborough was one of his pupils, whom he is said to have introduced to the more lascivious and debauched underbelly of London life.
After mostly making his living as an illustrator, in the 1740’s Hayman was commissioned by the proprietor of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, to produce a series of four large celebratory canvases depicting British victories from the Seven Years War. His association with Tyers continued, and over the next ten years he produced a number of large decorative paintings...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil Pastel
Prize Bulls, Farmer & Owner, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Prize Bulls, Farmer & Owner, 18th Century
Early French School Oil On Panel
Fine 18th century French School prize bull scene with the farmer and owner, oil on panel. Very early prize bull scene with a pair of bulls accompanied by their owner and the farmer. Excellent detail with influences of Paulus Potter...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,367 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
San Francisco Javier
Located in Miami, FL
Colonial School, Mexico, XVIII Century
"San Francisco Javier"
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in.
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,000
Van Lint workshop (Roma Baroque) 18th century landscape painting - Apollo Daphne
Located in Varmo, IT
Circle of Hendrik Frans van Lint (Antwerp 1684 - Rome 1763) - Apollo and Daphne.
40 x 50 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, unframed (not signed).
Condition report: Lined canvas. The...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,416 Sale Price
52% Off
"Century Seascape"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Seascape with Ships and Figures
Oil on canvas
Framed: 58 x 65 cm Canvas: 42 x 30 cm
No signatured
This elegant 18th-century seascape captures a tranquil yet dynamic maritime scene, ...
Category
Realist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Óleo sobre tela - La virgen con el niño y san Juanito
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Sin firmar, de autor anónimo
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco posterior a la pintura
Comentar que la tela está reentelada
Medidas obra: 65 x 49 cm.
Medidas marco: 82 ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jeune femme en déshabillé lisant
Located in ROUEN, FR
ÉCOLE FRANCAISE fin XVIIIè. Dans le goût de NATTIER. « Jeune femme en déshabillé lisant ». Pastel dans un très joli cadre. H.58 L.71.
Category
French School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$3,966 Sale Price
20% Off
Delivering a Promise to Marry
Located in San Francisco, CA
During Renaissance Italy, one way to send a message about the life-changing binding of two affluent families was to sit for a portrait like this. The finished work would then be deli...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Capriccio with Ruins Venice - 18th Century Oil on Canvas
By Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca, 1701-1783)
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Venetian capriccio view with classical architectural ruins and in the background the church of San Giorgio Maggiore and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute next to the Grand Can...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ritratto figurativo maschile neoclassico italiano con cornice firmato
Located in Florence, IT
Questo dipinto riporta sul retro della tela un'iscrizione molto importante il cui testo è “Ritratto di (?) Dom.° Anto. Camerini fatto in Roma l’An: 1784: da Gio. Batta del Era Milane...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Praying Madonna Giuseppe Bison Volto di Madonna Oil on Glass Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on glass, depicting a praying Madonna measuring 55 x 45 without frame and 62 x 52 cm with frame by the painter Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844).
...
Category
Italian School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Glass
Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing St. Anne & The Virgin Mary with Cherubs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pietro Fancelli (Italian 1764 - 1850)
bio details attached to the frame
'St. Anne & The Virgin'
ink with watercolor wash on paper, framed
framed: 22 x 16 inches
image: 11 x 6.5 inche...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$1,504 Sale Price
20% Off
Rococo painting with frame by 18th-century Venetian school oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (with a Salvador Rosa-style gilded frame 88 x 116 cm) depicts a group of four children who are playing outside on a swinging seesaw; we are probably dealing with a prank, as can be seen by the satisfied expression of the child on the right at the expense of the one in the foreground, who seems to be supported by the others, perhaps because of the fear felt.
They are dressed in the same way, with black or brown ankle boots and a kind of double-breasted jumpsuit with a rich lace collar reminiscent of the jabots of dames, blue for the one in the foreground, brick-colored for the other three.
Children also look alike in the hair, typical of the period, and features, suggesting a kinship relationship.
We find the same subject, for example, in Johann Zoffany...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a girl with an orange
By Robert Byng
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Robert Byng
British, (1666-1720)
Girl with Orange
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century by Antonio Mercurio Amorosi Portrait Little Girl with Cat
By Antonio Mercurio Amorosi
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Artist: Antonio Mercurio Amorosi (Comunanza, Italy, 1660 - 1738)
Title: Portrait of a little girl with cat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 42 x 31.5 cm – with frame 5...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior and pipe smoker
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Brown wooden frame
49 x 58 x 4 cm
Category
Dutch School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,688
Venetian Rococò painter - 18th century mask figure painting - Pantalone Carnival
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian master (18th century) - Mask of Pantalone.
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 (not si...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,563 Sale Price
45% Off
A poodle chasing a butterfly
By Ben Marshall
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Ben Marshall (1768-1835)
A poodle chasing a butterfly
Oil on canvas
Canvas size 10 x 12 in
Framed size 15 x 17 in
Provenance
The Collection of the late David Fuller, former Director...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Master Style Inn Interior with three men drinking around a table
Located in Woodbury, CT
This 18th-century painting, attributed to Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774), depicts a rustic inn interior, a subject frequently explored by Dutch and German genre painter...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Alpine Scene"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
18th-Century Romantic Landscape Painting – Alpine Scene
Artist: Unidentified
Period: 18th Century
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 38 x 52 cm Artwork: 29 x 41 cm
No signatu...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Antique Oil Painting Coastal Harbor Scene with Towers Old Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating seascape presents a masterful coastal harbor scene from the 18th century, attributed to an unknown master of marine art. The composition is built around 2 watchtower...
Category
Realist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Walnut, Oil
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Actress, Young Woman, French , Rococo, Oval
Located in Greven, DE
French Art
Rococo
Portrait of a Woman, Young Lady, perhaps an actress
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Pair of Hunt Scenes, Oil on Canvas”
Located in Warren, NJ
This is 2 original oil paintings. Both are beautiful pieces. each lined and with craquelure; Meet by the Farmhouse with a chip in the paint along the left edge and an abrasion along ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century View of Bishopthorpe Palace Yorkshire
Located in London, GB
Nicholas Thomas Dall (1706-1776)
Bishopthorpe Palace Yorkshire
Oil on Canvas
24 1/4 X 30 1/4
Provenance: Christie's New York: Friday, October 4, 1996 [Lot 00095] Sold for $10,350
...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting flemish school 18th century oil on panel wood - Interior tavern
Located in PARIS, FR
Nordic school of the 18th century Oil on panel on wood 27 cm x 33 cm (42 x 51 cm with the frame) Old frame in carved and gilded wood Good condition even ...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,274 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Early 1700's French Oil Elegant Figures Lady being Dressed Rococo Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, circa 1720's
circle of Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
oil painting on canvas
15 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
Fine depic...
Category
Rococo 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,779 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Landscape with Temple of Sibyl, Tivoli - Italian Old Master oil painting
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Italian Capriccio Old Master landscape oil painting is attributed to circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini. Painted circa 1740 it is a fantastic view of the Temple of Sibyl, ...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,034 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Girl, 18th Century Oil Old Master
By George Knapton
Located in London, GB
George Knapton
1698-1778
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 18 inches
Original giltwood frame
This beautiful half length portrait of a young woman, turned to left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink, white lace-embroidered, dress, in her hair a pink bonnet trimmed with lace to match her dress.
The depiction of a young girl epitomises child portraiture of the late eighteenth century, in which painters such as William Beechey, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough had begun to discover and express the true character of children, in contrast to the stiff, miniature-adults of previous generations.
The Artist
Knapton was born in Lymington, one of four sons of James Knapton. He was apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson from 1715 to 1722, and in 1720 was a founding subscriber to the academy of St. Martin's Lane established by Louis Chéron...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wooed Cherry Seller and two Ringers ca. 1720.
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The painting comes with expertise by art historian Dr. Giuseppe Sava.
Protagonist of the scene of open-air market is a cherry seller, who wears a flashy straw hat and...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$15,581 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$8,310 Sale Price
20% Off
Young Christ Pricked by a Thorn (Niño de la Espina)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, Paraguay, for at least the last 80 years
Painted in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 18th century, the present work depicts the young Christ as the Niño de la Espina—a devotional representation of Christ as he looks down at his bleeding finger, which has been pricked by the crown of thorns resting on his lap. The subject of the Young Christ Pricked by a Thorn was especially popular in Cuzco, and the rich details and decorative elements of our work perfectly capture the essence and style of the Cuzco School of painting.
In our painting, Christ wears an intricately patterned floor-length robe trimmed with gilded cuffs and a gilded collar. The delicate gilding, including the halo of golden rays emanating from his head, are executed in brocateado, an ornamental over-gilding technique that is characteristic of the Cuzco School. The red chair on which Christ sits also includes brocateado in the decorative gilt elements. The form of the chair takes inspiration from those commonly used by friars both in Spain and the Andes, known as silla frailera or sillon frailero, and was also frequently employed in related depictions of the Virgin Mary Spinning. Here the young Christ is rendered with soft, elongated features that reflect the influence of the Italian Mannerist painters who were pivotal to the formation of the Cuzco School, including the Jesuit friar Bernardo Bitti and Matteo Pérez del Alesio. Additionally, while its origins can be traced to Northern European pictorial traditions, the lush flower garland that frames the work is a signature feature of Cuzqueño painting...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Travellers at the Roadside Shrine
Located in Jacksonville, FL
This finely executed oil on the panel is attributed to the Dutch School in the late 18th century and represents that period's elegance and naturalistic style. Titled “Travellers at t...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Cristo atado a la columna
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada, es de augtor anónimo
Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura
El estado de conservación de la pintura dse puede ver, presenta faltas y precisará restauración
Com...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Story of Rebecca"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Lodovico Buffetti (Verona, 1722 - 1782)
"Story of Rebecca"
Oil on Canvas
Framed: 89 x 71 cm Flat: 74 x 56 cm
No signatured
This exquisite 18th-century oil painting by Lodovico Buffe...
Category
Realist 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Rare & Unusual English School Portrait
Large 17th Century English School portrait of a wet nurse and baby breastfeeding, oil on canva...
Category
18th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$9,775 Sale Price
20% Off
A Magnificent Gilt Wood Mirrored Frame
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, Argentina; there acquired by
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Harper, New York, by 1960; by descent to:
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Harper, New York, until 2024.
This extraordinary mirrored frame is an exuberant and nearly perfectly preserved example of Andean 18th-century decorative art. Pierced mirrored rosettes surrounding floral motifs are set against mirrored surrounds along a broad frieze bordered within and without by elaborate raised moldings, inlaid by small, shaped mirrors. Repeating ornamental motifs reflecting both Spanish and indigenous designs surround both the inside panel and the exterior perimeter, the four corners of which are punctuated by mirrored rosettes.
Glass mirrors were unknown to the indigenous population of the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans (obsidian mirrors...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mirror, Wood, Oil
Read More
The Real World Portraitist of “The Gilded Age,” Season Three
Only the best painter could suit the calculatedly extravagant Bertha Russell.
See Kent Monkman’s Magical Realist Take on Frontier History
With a solo show at the Denver Art Museum and a commission from the Met, the Cree Canadian painter has become an international sensation.
Yale’s Trove of British Art Is Back on View in a Refreshed Louis Kahn Building
After a two-year closure, they Yale Center for British Art opens its doors again, with all sorts of changes to its building and programming.
At 89, Artist Lucio Pozzi Is Reaching New Career Heights
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
The 1stDibs Guide to Types of Abstract Art
Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
With a Show at MoMA, Marlon Mullen Paints Pictures That Are beyond Words
The nonspeaking California artist is having a moment, with vivacious paintings that play on art-magazine covers as well as more mysterious abstractions.
The Vibrant Beauty of Orphist Art Supersedes Its Perplexing Name
This kaleidoscopic early-modern art style has long deserved another look. Now, the Guggenheim museum is doing just that.
The 50 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold
Curious about the most expensive paintings in the world? Discover the stories behind these masterpieces as well as the staggering prices they fetched.