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Old Masters Still-life Paintings

OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Period: 19th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Style: Old Masters
17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Dutch Maestro Title: Still life with bird, carp & lobster Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 116 x 97 cm - with frame 153 x 133,5 cm Antique frame "a casset...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas
17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas

17th-century Dutch maestro
17th century By Dutch Maestro Still life with bird, carp & lobster Oil on canvas, 17th century

$19,955 Sale Price
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18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Francesco Lavagna (active in Naples in the mid-18th century) Title: Pair of Flower Vases Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 98 x 36 cm each - with frame 112 x 50 cm each...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas
18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas

Francesco Lavagna (active in Naples in the mid-18th century)
18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas, 18th Century

$19,955 Sale Price
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17th Century by Panfilo Nuvolone Still Life Oil on Slate
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Panfilo Nuvolone (Cremona, Italy, 1581 - Milan, Italy, 1651) Title: Still life Medium: Oil on slate Dimensions: without frame cm. 17 x 19.5 - with frame cm. 31.5 x 37.5 Expertise by...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Slate

17th Century by Panfilo Nuvolone Still Life Oil on Slate
17th Century by Panfilo Nuvolone Still Life Oil on Slate

Panfilo Nuvolone
17th Century by Panfilo Nuvolone Still Life Oil on Slate, 17th century

$120,770 Sale Price
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Still-Life Armour Curtains Sculpture Tibaldi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antonio Tibaldi (Rome, c. 1635 - post 1675) Workshop of Still Life with Armour, Curtains and Sculpture Oil on canvas 53 x 77 cm. - in frame 65 x 89 cm. Beautifully scenic painting ...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still-Life Armour Curtains Sculpture Tibaldi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas
Still-Life Armour Curtains Sculpture Tibaldi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas

Still-Life Armour Curtains Sculpture Tibaldi 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas, 1660-1699

$7,253 Sale Price
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Baroque silver Vase with Flowers with a Fruit Tray and a Clock by A. Zuccati
Located in PARIS, FR
This unpublished composition is a recent addition to Adeodato Zuccati’s catalog. The study of this painting by Gianluca Bocchi, an Italian art historian specializing in Italian still lives, is available upon request. This composition is typical of the productions of Adeodato Zuccati, an Emilian painter...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Baroque silver Vase with Flowers with a Fruit Tray and a Clock by A. Zuccati
Baroque silver Vase with Flowers with a Fruit Tray and a Clock by A. Zuccati

Adeodato Zuccati
Baroque silver Vase with Flowers with a Fruit Tray and a Clock by A. Zuccati, 2d half of the 17th century

$31,918
Angels Flower Garzi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italian Art
By Luigi Garzi (Pistoia 1638– Rome1721)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Roman school of the early 18th century Luigi Garzi (Pistoia 1638– Rome1721) attributed Still life of fruit supported by three angels Oil on oval canvas 116 x 91 cm., Framed 140 x 119 cm. Authentication on a photograph by Prof Giancarlo Sestieri, who attributes the work to the sphere of Luigi Garzi This magnificent canvas, depicting a sumptuous composition of fruit supported by three prosperous winged cherubs, from which comes a parchment bearing the Latin expression "Amor est vitae essentia", is to be placed in the production of a Roman author active between the second half of XVII century and the first of the following century. The iconography that sees represented cherubs with fruit or flowers is frequent in the Baroque period, especially in the Roman area, starting from the 1600s, with that particular depictional tendency aimed at illusionistic and frivolous images, to a type of paintings or frescoes of strong value decorative, intended for the private context and depicting jubilation of cherubs, angels or cherubs, and of which our canvas represents a perfect example. We can recall, among the most illustrious iconographic precedents, the elegant mirrors painted by Mario Nuzzi and Carlo Maratta that adorn the hall of Palazzo Colonna in Rome, and again the canvas preserved in the Rouen museum and the similar ones in Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, with the collaboration for the figurative parts of Filippo Lauri. The commercial and furnishing success of similar works is also testified by authors such as Guglielmo Cortese known as Borgognone (1628 - 1679), Franz Werner Von Tamm (1658 - 1724), Giovan Battista Gaulli (1639 - 1709), Giovanni Paolo Castelli known as Spadino (Rome 1650 - 1740) and the aforementioned Carlo Maratta (1625 - 1713) The work, studied by Giancarlo Sestieri, was brought closer to the sphere of the eclectic Pistoian painter Luigi Garzi, one of the protagonists of Roman painting in the decades of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In our painting we can find the typical elements of his painting: the soft and delicately chiaroscuro light, the sculptural classicism of the figures as well as the stupendous luministic and chromatic effects. Luigi Garzi's training and artistic activity took place in the Eternal City and he was in effect a Roman artist. He moved to Rome from Pistoia, his hometown at a very young age, and joined the atelier of Andrea Sacchi, who directed his studies towards classicism, comparing himself with the works of Raphael, Domenichino and Nicolas Poussin, but also with the Emilian one. , with particular attention to the school of Guido Reni. But the Emilian examples were undoubtedly preceded, particularly by Giovani Lanfranco, who modeled his taste and style, together with a modulated cortonism, while those pre-eighteenth-century sensibilities are due to the lesson of Carlo Maratta. However, there is no doubt that the painter oriented his personality without ever bowing to imitation, reaching a refined elegance and autonomy of language, as the canvas in question clearly demonstrates in which the different influences find a refined amalgamation in perfect harmony with the baroque evolution between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, indicating a dating to its earliest maturity. These attitudes led the painter to obtain awards and prestigious commissions as soon as possible, such as the frescoes of Palazzo Borghese...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Angels Flower Garzi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italian Art
Angels Flower Garzi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italian Art

Angels Flower Garzi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italian Art, 1680-1720

$14,753 Sale Price
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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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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oak, Oil, Panel

Still Life of Fruit in a Wicker Basket with Bird
Still Life of Fruit in a Wicker Basket with Bird

Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Elder
Still Life of Fruit in a Wicker Basket with Bird

$19,821
17th Century by Giovanni Paolo Castelli Still Life Oil on Canvas
By Giovanni Paolo Castelli detto Spadino
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Paolo Castelli known as Spadino (Rome, Italy, 1659 - 1730) Title: Still life Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 81 x 31 ...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cotton Canvas

17th Century by Giovanni Paolo Castelli Still Life Oil on Canvas
17th Century by Giovanni Paolo Castelli Still Life Oil on Canvas

Giovanni Paolo Castelli detto Spadino
17th Century by Giovanni Paolo Castelli Still Life Oil on Canvas, Late 17th Century

$18,914 Sale Price
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Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesca Volò Smiller, called Vincenzina (Milan, 1657 - 1700) - circle of Floral composition Oil on canvas (97 x 72 cm. - in octagonal frame 100 x 84 cm.) A rich floral compositio...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school
Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school

Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school, 1670-1720

$5,532 Sale Price
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Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antonio Tibaldi (Rome, c. 1633 - c. 1684) Still Life with Precious Objects, Brocade Fabrics and a Plate of Sweets c. 1650/1660 Oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm In frame 115 x 150 c...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy

Still-Life Carpet Tibaldi Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy, 1650-1660

$17,827 Sale Price
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Nature morte au bouquet de pivoines et roses sur une table nappée
By François Bonvin
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on canvas set to oval Signed and dated F. Bonvin 1876 in the center right Provenance: • France, private collection
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1870s Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Nature morte au bouquet de pivoines et roses sur une table nappée
Nature morte au bouquet de pivoines et roses sur une table nappée

François Bonvin
Nature morte au bouquet de pivoines et roses sur une table nappée, 1876

$33,100
Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy
By Giovanni Stanchi
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Stanchi (Rome 1608 - 1675) or Niccolò Stanchi (Rome 1623 - 1690), workshop of GARLAND OF FLOWERS WITH PORTRAIT OF THE VIRGIN Rome, First half of the Seventeenth century o...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy
Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy

Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy, 1640- 1680

$5,485 Sale Price
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Still life painting of fruit in a basket
Located in London, GB
Still life painting of fruit in a basket Continental, c. 1800 Frame: Height 81cm, width 91cm, depth 7cm Canvas: Height 57cm, width 69cm, ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still life painting of fruit in a basket
Still life painting of fruit in a basket

Still life painting of fruit in a basket, c. 1800

$16,403 Sale Price
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19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL OIL PAINTING WOOD PANEL STUDY OF A SAINT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century Continental School (unsigned, as one would expect) A study of a saint Medium ; oil on panel, unframed. Size: 26" x 12" inches
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19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL OIL PAINTING WOOD PANEL STUDY OF A SAINT
19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL OIL PAINTING WOOD PANEL STUDY OF A SAINT

19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL OIL PAINTING WOOD PANEL STUDY OF A SAINT, 19th Century

$5,126
Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life with Dead Birds 18th Century Italian School oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 16 x 20 inches canvas: 13 x 17 inches provenance: privat...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape
Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape

18th Century Italian School
Fine 18th Century Old Master Oil Painting Dead Game in Landscape

$1,813 Sale Price
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17th Century Italian School Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge with a Ewer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
17th Century Italian School. A Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge, with a Ewer to the side, Oil on Canvas, Unframed, 22" x 26.5" (56 x 67.3cm). Con...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

17th Century Italian School Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge with a Ewer
17th Century Italian School Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge with a Ewer

Italian Old Master
17th Century Italian School Still Life of Fruit on a Marble Ledge with a Ewer

$6,698 Sale Price
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Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame
By Giacomo Recco (Naples 1603 - before 1653)
Located in Pistoia, IT
Attributed to Giacomo Recco (1603-1653), still life "Glass jug with flowers," oil on canvas in gilt frame. This fine canvas depicts a glass pitcher filled with flowers resting on a ...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame
Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame

Neapolitan Still Life "Flowers in a Glass Jug" Oil on Canvas in Frame, unfamiliar

$14,777
Still Life Musical Instruments Bettera Paint 17/18rt Century Oil on canvas Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Bonaventura Bettera (Bergamo, 1663 - documented until 1718) Still Life with Musical Instruments (LINK) Oil on canvas 90 x 116 cm - Framed 105 x 131 cm. The merit of the 17th centur...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life Musical Instruments Bettera Paint 17/18rt Century Oil on canvas Art
Still Life Musical Instruments Bettera Paint 17/18rt Century Oil on canvas Art

Still Life Musical Instruments Bettera Paint 17/18rt Century Oil on canvas Art, 1680-1718

$12,048 Sale Price
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Nativity Scene Garland Pendant - Flemish 17thC art religious floral oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb trompe l'oeil painting is in the typical manner and quality of the Antwerp Jesuit master Daniel Seghers. Painted circa 1650, the central ca...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Nativity Scene Garland Pendant - Flemish 17thC art religious floral oil painting
Nativity Scene Garland Pendant - Flemish 17thC art religious floral oil painting

Nativity Scene Garland Pendant - Flemish 17thC art religious floral oil painting, Circa 1650

$12,302
De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jacob De Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754) attributable/ workshop Pair of Cupids with Garland of Flowers Oil on canvas 91 x 103 cm. - Framed 104 x 115 cm. Provenance: Christie's (London, Old master Painting 12.12.1996) lot 82 This magnificent composition depicts two cupids holding a garland of flowers, placed on a fine architecture with bas-reliefs and masks, presumably the top of a fountain. One of the two cupids sympathetically holds a part of it with his hands, while his head turns towards the viewer; the second cupid, on the other hand, must have clumsily broken the thread holding its end, and is sitting sullenly with a torch and a tear streaking his chubby cheek. The work, given its stylistic features and compositional taste, can be attributed to the Flemish artist Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754), or to an artist from his workshop, with his typical triumphal and opulent style, which reveals clear influences from Rubens and Van Dijck, but also from Gerard de Lairesse...
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18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art
De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art

De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art, 1720-1750

$14,753 Sale Price
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17th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Still Life with Cuttlefish Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
17th Century Neapolitan Maestro Title: Still Life with Cuttlefish Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 48.5 x 63 cm - with frame 59 x 73.5 cm Antique shaped and gilded woo...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

17th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Still Life with Cuttlefish Oil on Canvas
17th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Still Life with Cuttlefish Oil on Canvas

Maestro active in Naples in the 17th century
17th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Still Life with Cuttlefish Oil on Canvas, 17th Century

$27,603
17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Nicolas Van Houbraken (Messina, Italy, 1668 - Pisa, Italy, 1733) Title: Still life with mushrooms Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 26 x 32 cm - with frame 38.5 x 33.5...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil

17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas
17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas

Nicolas Van Houbraken
17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas, 17th Century

$11,065 Sale Price
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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...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Canvas

17th Century by Onofrio Loth Still Life Oil on Canvas
17th Century by Onofrio Loth Still Life Oil on Canvas

Onofrio Loth
17th Century by Onofrio Loth Still Life Oil on Canvas, Late 17th Century

$11,963 Sale Price
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Still Life With Flowers By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer 1636-1699 French Still Life with Flowers on a Carved Stone Ledge Oil on canvas Impeccable detail and luminous color breathe life into this floral still lif...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life With Flowers By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Still Life With Flowers By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Still Life With Flowers By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

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