Mid-18th Century Still-life Paintings

Classical Still Life in Baroque Landscape French School, 18th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 27.5 x 36 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very...

Italian painter (18th century) - Still life with vase of flowers. 109.5 x 76.5 cm without frame, 126 x 92.5 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame. Condi...

This original Still Life of Fruit and Flowers (oil painting on canvas, 145 x 116 cm without frame and 160 x 131 cm with coeval frame), very unique for its free and dynamic presentation of some pieces of fruit on irregular rock shelves , irregularly hewn and arranged at various heights, with a jug with a floral bouquet and some mushrooms at the bottom, and a square opening on a blue sky at the top, can be assigned to the hand of Felice Rubbiani (Modena 1677 - Villa San Pancrazio 1752), in one of his happiest moments of inventive verve and pictorial fluency. A paternity to which the confirmation of some of its typical typologies clearly leads, such as the grapes, the curled branches and the fringed leaves of the tendrils, the small oblong pears, the swollen red rose, performed with quick brush strokes and decisive contrasts chiaroscuro. A work in which Rubbiani, while confirming the graceful Arcadian taste of his open-air settings, underlies it in this case with a freer and more whimsical interpretation, open to suggestions of Rococo timbre, probably noticeable even in the most provincial climate of Modena, through the fervent alignment of the nearby Parma aristocracy with transalpine fashion. The figure of Rubbiani, favorite pupil of G.D. Bettini, had had a first qualified introduction, written by D. Biagi Maino (La vita morta in Italia, Electa ed., 1989, I, pp. 432-433) who appropriately reported what was written by Tiraboschi (1781-86). That is, the abandonment of dark backgrounds for "the light fields", following the example of the master, but with the daring innovation of painting flowers and fruit "on graceful and lively backgrounds, still sometimes decorated with distances and architectures", going beyond the classical balanced compositions by the master and contemporary Emilian colleagues, in favor of airy and lively presentations. Peculiarities to which Rubbiani grants ample explanation in the present "Still life", already finding salient comparisons in the works published by Biagi Maino, in particular the "Flowers and fruit in a landscape...

Oval painting depicting a vase of flowers of the Piedmontese school of 61 x 52 cm. This tasty oval responds fully to the inspiration of rococo worldly game and brings floral transp...

"Flowers in a Chinese Vase" Italian School, 18th century oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 22.25” x 27” (56.5 x 68.5cm) provenance: private collection, France Fine quality large scale antique Italian oil painting, typical of the Rococo period, depicting this still life of flowers within a Chinese vase; an ornamental bird...

Beautiful still life Neapolitan School of Baldassarre De Caro, 1st half of 1700. Baldassarre De Caro and his school were very well known is the first half of 18th century as painters...

Remarkable 18th century flower painting by a very rare Flemish painter. Ziesel was a classically trained painter in the style of the grea...

Very fine original pen and ink wash drawing dating to the height of the French Rococo period of the 18th century. The drawing is most likely a design for a piece of furniture - a sta...