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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
A very Important pair of Rococo 18th Century French portraits
Located in New York, NY
Very good condition with original canvas, stretcher and frame.
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Cerf - Etching by Claude Jardinier - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cerf is an etching realized in 1771 by Claude Jardinier.
Titled and Signed on the plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la d...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Chamomile & Safflower: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici (Chamomile), Cincus Sativus (False saffron, Safflower), Chamaemelum Romanum Flore (Roman Chamomile)", depicting flowering Chamomile, Safflower and Roman Chamomile plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There are a few small spots and some irregularity of the lower edge. There is some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.25" high and 17.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Utagawa Hiroshige II -- The Beach at Takanawa
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Hiroshige II
The Beach at Takanawa from Toto sanjurokkei 東都三十六景 (Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital), 1862
Woodblock
Oban
Signed Hiroshige ga and published by Sagamiya ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
Diana Hunting in Wooded Landscape - 17thC Old Master French art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb French Old Master oil painting with excellent provenance is by Jean Francois I Millet. It was painted circa 1675 and is a figurative landscape depicting Diana hunting in ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Manor House with Cottages - British 18thC Old Master art oil painting VG prov.
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning British Old Master landscape oil painting, with excellent provenance, is by George Lambert. Lambert was a pioneer of British landscape in art for its own sake. Painted in 1744, the painting is entitled View of a Manor House and Cottages in Elizabeth Einberg's 63rd volume of the Walpole Society 2001 and is described as follows: In the foreground a road emerges from a wood to cross a ford and then leads up the hill to the right, towards a manor house seemingly built into the remains of a medieval or Tudor edifice. The main track, crowded with sheep and rustic figures, passes the massive square gateposts lower down the hill on the left. Further to the left is a thatched cottage with smoke coming out the chimney. In the distance is a wide coastal view. The main buildings, which are in the dead centre of the composition, represent almost certainly an as yet unidentified English view.
The colouring and detail in the trees and foliage are superb. This is an excellent Old Master oil painting by one of the all time great British landscape artists with extensive provenance.
Signed and dated 1744 lower left on rock in black.
Provenance. Elizabeth Einberg, “Catalogue Raisonnè of the works of George Lambert” The Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 2001 Vol. 63, page 149 no P1744, fig.71.
Antonacci Efrati Antichità Rome Gallery.
Burden sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 20-21, April 1938 (376 repr.)
Robert E. Peters, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 1975 (41 repr.)
Lit. Schnackenburg 1995, pp 83-84, cat. no.14 fig 13.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 54 inches by 52 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt frame, 64 inches by 62 inches and in good condition.
George Lambert (1700-1765) was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter. With Richard Wilson he is recognised as a pioneer of British landscape in art, for its own sake. Lambert was born in Kent and studied art under Warner Hassells and John Wootton, soon attracting attention by the quality of his landscape painting. He painted many large and fine landscapes in the style of Gaspar Poussin and Salvator Rosa. Many of his landscapes were finely engraved by François Vivares, James Mason (1710–1785), and others, including a set of views of Plymouth and Mount Edgcumbe (painted conjointly with Samuel Scott), a view of Saltwood Castle in Kent, another of Dover, and a landscape presented to the Foundling Hospital in London. Lambert also obtained a great reputation as a scene-painter, working at first for the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, in London, under John Rich. When Rich moved to Covent Garden Theatre, Lambert secured the assistance of Amigoni, and together they produced scenery of far higher quality than any previously executed. Lambert was a man of jovial temperament and shrewd wit, and frequently spent his evenings at work in his painting-loft at Covent Garden Theatre, to which men of note in the fashionable or theatrical world resorted to share his supper of a beef-steak, freshly cooked on the spot. Out of these meetings arose the well-known "Beefsteak Club" which long maintained a high social reputation. Most of Lambert's scene-paintings unfortunately perished when Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1808. Lambert was a friend of William Hogarth and a member of the jovial society that met at 'Old Slaughter's' Tavern in St Martin's Lane. In 1755 he was one of the committee of artists who proposed a royal academy of arts in London. He was a member of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, exhibited with them in 1761 and the three following years, and during the same period contributed to the Academy exhibitions. In 1765 he and other members seceded and formed the Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain, of which he was elected the first president. In conjunction with Samuel Scott, Lambert painted a series of Indian views for the old East India House in Leadenhall Street. He also etched two prints after Salvator Rosa. Lambert was associated in 1735 with George Vertue, Hogarth, and John Pine (engraver, 1660–1756) in obtaining a bill from parliament securing artists a copyright on their works. Lambert's portraits were painted by Thomas Hudson, John Vanderbank (engraved in mezzotint by John Faber the younger in 1727, and in line by H. Robinson and others), and Hogarth. Lambert's most famous painting is "A view of Box Hill, Surrey" (1733) which depicts a well-known beauty spot south of London. Hogarth considered Lambert a rival to the famous French landscape painter Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) with respect to his use of soft light to unify the scene in this painting. Though he never visited Italy he was inspired by the classical tradition of landscape painting. Lambert died on 30 November 1765 at his home on the Piazza in Covent Garden. His pupils included John Inigo Richards...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
$150,282 Sale Price
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French Old Master The Garden of Gethsemane Unusual Shape Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: The Garden of Gethsemane
Medium: oil painting on wooden panel, unframed.
painting: measurem...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Edward Addison, Esq., 1780s
Located in Henley-on-Thames, England
George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Edward Addison, Esq., c.1780s
Oil on canvas
In a period carved and gilded swept frame
76.3 x 63.2 cm.; ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Piranesi IV.
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print Hahnemuehle, editioned, Giovanni Battista Piranesi print in Verlag von AD Lehmann in Wien, end of the 19. century, SalamonArt certificate will be included.
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
$263 Sale Price
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Diana Boullogne Mythological Paint Oil on canvas old master 17/18th Century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Bon Boullogne (Paris, 1649 - Paris, 1717) workshop of
Episodes from the myth of Diana
oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 84 x 114 cm.
with antique frame 100 x 132 cm.
The beautiful painting proposed shows a series of episodes taken from the myth of the divinity Diana, the Roman divinity of hunting, forests and wild animals, masterfully captured in this valuable painting, which shows a luxuriant wood, a favorite place of the divinity, as a theater of his adventures.
The composition opens, on the left, with a sort of presentation of the divinity, portrayed as an attractive young girl, surrounded by her faithful Nymphs, one of whom holds her quiver with arrows, and by one of her beloved dogs. hunting her.
The 'story' continues in the central part where we can see the divinity during a wild boar hunt...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
$8,362 Sale Price
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17th Century by Andrea Vaccaro Penitent Magdalene Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Andrea Vaccaro (Naples, Italy, 1604 – 1670)
Title: Penitent Magdalene
Year: 1630-1635 ca.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 75 x 62 cm – with frame 87.5 x 74.7 x 5.5 cm...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$55,721 Sale Price
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17th Century Painting Baroque Madonna & Child Attendant Angels Offering Gifts
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Angelic Visitation
Italian School, 17th Century
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 30 x 36 inches
Canvas: 24 x 29 inches
Provenance: private collection, Europe
Condition: the antique...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
17th century etching Rembrandt landscape house trees field sky cow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This piece is from a collection of originally designed etchings with drypoints by Rembrandt. It is printed on Ingres D'arches off-white laid paper. The prints are the sixth and final state Posthumous Impression. Printing plates were made in 1650, this collection was printed in 1998.
Rembrandt van Rijn was one of the masters of the landscape genre in his prints and drawings. In his etching, "Landscape with a Cow...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait Of A Stallion, New York, 18th Century by William Williams (1727-1791)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Stallion, 18th Century
by William Williams (1727-1791) sales to $60,000
Large circa 1770 portrait of a Stallion race horse in an open landscape, oil on panel by Willi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
$3,522 Sale Price
69% Off
Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, Etching on Somerset paper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, Year: Of Original 1638, Medium: Etching on Somerset paper, Image Size: 5 x...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Birds with an Upturned Basket of Fruit 2
Located in West Sussex, GB
Giovanni Agostino Cassana
(c.1658 – 6 May 1720) Venetian
Birds with an Upturned Basket of Fruit
Oil on canvas: 25 x 35 in. Frame: 33 x 43 in.
The canvas is unsigned
Abate, or Gio...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Flowering Henbane : A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyosciamus albus and Hyosciamus vulgaris" (Henbane) plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensi...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
BATHOS / Tail PIece
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
British Caricature...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
18th century Venetian Still life of flowers, classical vase on a marble ledge
Located in Woodbury, CT
The Pseudo-Guardi was an unidentified Venetian painter from the 18th or early 19th century who closely imitated the style of Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), one of the great Venetian v...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Rococo 18th-Century Portrait of Young Girl with Grapes Oval Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Girl
French Rococo School, 18th century, unsigned
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 24 x 20 inches
Canvas : 20 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Con...
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'India'
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
con...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Attributed to MILLOT, Henri Portrait of a Lady
Located in Berlin, DE
Attributed to MILLOT, Henri. Portrait of a Lady. Oil on canvas. Unsigned, inscribed Millot on the reverse. 18th century. 85 x 69 cm. Framed. 85 x 69 cm. Portrait of a young woman in ...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Set of Eight Apostles, Portrait of Men, Head Studies, Flemish School, Van Dyck
Located in Greven, DE
Set of Eight Apostles
each oil on panel
each framed (different as some are golden, some are not, please view the photos)
So far there is no certain attribution. The style of the ser...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$28,380 Sale Price
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The City of Gand, Capital of the... - Etching by Giambattista Albrizzi - 1745 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Giambattista Albrizzi (1698-1777) for Thomas Salmon's Lo Stato presente di tutti i Paesi e Popoli do Mondo. Regno di Spagna.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Limon Lavrae: A 17th C. Hand-colored Engraving of Lemon Anatomy by G. Ferrari
By Giovanni Battista Ferrari
Located in Alamo, CA
This 17th century hand-colored engraving of a lemon entitled "Limon Lavrae", plate 219 from Giovanni Baptista Ferrari's publication "Hesperides, sive, De Malorum Aureorum Cultura Etu...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Jan Ludewick De Wouters, Wooded Landscape With Riders, Ruin & Distant Town
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 18th-century oil painting by Flemish artist Jan Ludewick De Wouters (1731-after 1789) depicts a wooded view with horseback riders, various buildings including a ruin, a country track and distant town.
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The success of this piece is, in part, due to an intelligent composition, providing two distinct routes for the eye to explore. On the left, a track worn by the continual grinding of hooves into mud, winds its way towards a ruin and through dense woodland. While on the right, our view extends across the foreground and out towards a carefully delineated town with a church spire and other prominent buildings. Sinuous trees, rendered particularly well, provide a visual division. This technique is reminiscent of works by the Dutch Golden Age luminary Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709).
The use of heavily contrasted areas of light and shade adds another layer of interest and perhaps suggests that the artist was conveying more than simply the view itself. Often, artists working during the 17th/18th century in this manner would provide a hidden narrative, linked to one’s adherence to the teachings of the church. E.g. on the right, glory abounds with the church spire conspicuous, while in the darkness, all is ruinous.
Jan Ludewick De Wouters is one of numerous artists who are lost to time due to unscrupulous behaviour by the art market. As his works are heavily influenced by the Dutch and Flemish Masters, most of them have been erroneously signed and ‘upgraded’. Fortunately, this one has survived unscathed, and it’s a fine example.
Signed/dated in the lower right and held in a later frame.
Medium: Oil on panel
Overall size: 29½” x 23½” / 75cm x 60cm
Year of creation: 1784
Provenance: Private collection, Spain.
Artist’s auction maximum: £13,750 for ‘A Wooded River Landscape With Herdsmen Resting With Their Cattle & Sheep’, Oil on canvas...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Italian School, 16th Century, Study of figures
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 16th Century
Studies of Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
23 × 24 cm
Unsigned
A finely executed sheet presenting vigorous figure studies, drawn with assured pen strok...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink
Huge 1700's Dutch Old Master Oil Painting Elegant Court Figures Musical Soiree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Dutch School, early 1700's.
Title: Elegant Court Figures at a Musical Soiree.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed.
Size: painting: 40 x 49.5 inches
Provenanc...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venus Paolo Fiammingo Paint Oil on canvas Old master 16th Century Italian Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pauwels Franck, known as Paolo Fiammingo
(Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596)
Venus lying in a landscape
Oil on canvas 116 x 150 cm.
In antique frame 136 x 170 cm.
The work is accompanied by a critical card by Dr. Federica Spadotto
The splendid painting proposed sees portrayed, bare and stretched out on a red brocade cloth in gold sprinkled with roses, a refined and sensual Venus, in a composition with a profound symbolic value, and arriving at the perfect representation of the Renaissance woman who, like Venus, becomes an allegory love, eros, beauty and fertility.
The canvas is part of the prestigious Venetian artistic and cultural environment of the second half of the sixteenth century, whose distinctive distinctive trait can be traced back to its cosmopolitan vocation. This characteristic, as Dr. Spadotto noted in her in-depth study, belongs to the same physiology of the Venetian capital, that is, being a distinctly commercial city located in a strategic point with respect to trade. Representing one of the liveliest ports in the Mediterranean also meant witnessing the continuous passage not only of goods, but of men, ideas, suggestions from distant countries, which influenced not only the taste of their people, but above all art.
This happened thanks to the circulation of prints, as well as pictorial specimens, to which are added the stays of great foreign artists and, above all, the permanence in the capital of a non-negligible number of Dutch, Flemish and German masters.
An emblematic case in this regard comes from Pauwels Franck (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596), better known as Paolo Fiammingo, who established himself in his native city at a young age - in 1561 a figure enrolled in the Guild of San Luca - and arrived in Venice in 1573. .
He resided in Venice from 1584 until his death, although the stylistic and formal references of some of his works have led critics to believe that in previous years he had undertaken a journey to central Italy, or to Florence and Rome, where he would have metabolized the lively cultural debate that permeated these cities and which, on the other hand, seemed completely absent in Venice.
Here Paolo will be fascinated by the sense of color and by the atmospheric component fixed on the canvas by Jacopo Tintoretto (Venice 1518 - 1594), of which he becomes a collaborator, to undergo, around 1590, the suggestion of Paolo Caliari...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
$30,131 Sale Price
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The Lion - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
The lion is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Not signed.
In excellent conditions.
Including a...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Bronze bust of Seneca or Pseudo-Seneca Italy Naples late 18th-early 19th cent
Located in Pistoia, IT
Bronze bust with brown patina depicting the pseudo-Seneca, Italy, early 19th century.
The Pseudo-Seneca is a Roman bronze bust from the late 1st century B.C.. discovered in 1754 in ...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
White Stork "Storch Ciconia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Der Storch Ciconia" (White Stork) by Johann Leonhard Frisch is plate 19...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Ship Leaving the Bay at Sunrise French Seascape 18th century Rococo Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed Charles François Grenier de Lacroix or Charles - François Lacroix de Marseille (1700 - 1782) as signed lower left on the stone “Lacroix”. The scene of the departure of nobles on a ship, somewhere among the Mediterranean landscapes at sunrise. Lacroix's sense of color and attention to detail are particularly impressive: the sea is calm, the sun is rising and as a soft pink hue begins to emerge in the clouds, the morning haze has not yet cleared and the air is clear and clean, large ship...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Resurrection of Christ. Study of the Master of the Prodigal Son. Ca. 1550.
Located in Firenze, IT
Resurrection of Christ
Attributed to the Master of the Prodigal Son / Jan Mandyn (1500-1560)
Oil on panel, 73 x 56 cm (without frame), 81 x 63 cm (with frame)
The work was exa...
Category
Mannerist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
$8,842 Sale Price
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XVII century. Gentleman With Sword In A Blacksmith’s Forge.
Located in Firenze, IT
Gentleman with sword in a blacksmith’s forge. Italy, first half of the 17th century
Oil on walnut panel
Panel size: 22 × 18.5 cm
Frame: 28.5 × 25 cm (not original)
A forge. Tools n...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Walnut, Oil, Wood Panel
Prospectuum Aedium Viarumque Insignorum Ubis Venetiarum -by G.B. Brustolon- 1763
By Giovanni Battista Brustolon
Located in Roma, IT
Complete series of 20 original black and white etchings on oblong folio and laid paper, in first state before numeration.
On frontispiece with date “1763”, dedication to Prince Marco Foscareno and name and address of Ludovico Furlanetto. Each plate is titled and signed on plate "Jo. Bap. Brustoloni sculp." on the lower right margin.
Complete title of the series: Prospectuum aedium, viarumque insigniorum Urbis venetiarum nautico certamine, ac nundinis adiectis. Tomus Primus, tabulas XII complectens, quas Antonius Canale coloribus expressit – Joannes Baptista Brustolon aere incidit. Serenissimo Principi D.D. Marco Foscareno Egregio, emerito, sapientissimo Augustae Republicae Duci D.D.D. Anno AE C. 1763 ab V.C. 1341.
This series is considered the most important one by Brustolon after Canaletto (from the engravings of Visentini), and was edited in a first version of 12 tables and in a second version of 22 tables. However, Succi affirms that the I state series includes just 20 tables, and the missing two vary from suite to suite so that this series can be considered complete.
Very fresh and bright sheets in wide margins, with restored little tear on 4 sheets and a very light vertical fold on center. Papers show the following watermarks:
Big cartouche with half-moon
Big cartouche with letters “FO” and “AS”
Bound and ripples on paper.
In detail: Prospectuum Aedium Viarumque Insignorum Ubis Venetiarum is one of the finest of Venetian topographical print suites, equal in relevance to the publications of Carlevarijs, Canaletto-Visentini, and Marieschi, preciously rare, especially in the first edition (of four) with all plates in first state and in excellent state of preservation.
Ten of its twenty vedute of the Serenessima derive from the paintings of Canaletto, drawn and engraved by Antonio Visentini, adapted to a larger size by Brustolon. The Bellunese artist extended the views and enriched the landscapes with new objects and figures that animate the scenes.
Other four views are deeply inspired by Michele...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Two Arcadic Landscapes - J.F. Van Bloemen (follower of) - Oil on Canvas
Located in Roma, IT
Two Arcadic Landscapes are a couple of original oil paintings by a follower of the Flemish artist, Jan Frans Van Bloemen (1662-1749).
These old master's original paintings represen...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
"Paesaggio classico con figure"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
16th-Century Flemish School – Biblical Scene
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 135 x 208 cm (unframed), 150 x 220 cm (framed)
Provenance: Private collection
No signatured
Historica...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Travelling Comic Theatre - Italian 18thC art figurative landscape oil painting
By Marco Marcola
Located in Hagley, England
This interesting Italian 18th century Old Master oil painting is by noted artist Marco Marcola, also known as Marco Marcuola. It was painted circa 1770 and has excellent provenance. ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Joha...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Antique Bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Substantial, hand carved, solid marble bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius (24-69 C.E.) on a custom, iron base. Likely a 16th century copy of a 2nd century o...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Giulio Carpioni workshop (Venetian) - 17th century figure painting - Moses
By Giulio Carpioni
Located in Varmo, IT
Giulio Carpioni (Venice 1613 - Vicenza 1678) workshop of - Moses makes water flow from the rocks.
82 x 68 cm without frame, 97 x 83 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in wooden frame (n...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,956 Sale Price
28% Off
"Gipsy Musicians"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Kaspar Waldmann (1657–1720) – "Gypsy Musicians"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 149 cm (unframed), 102 x 151 cm (framed)
Provenance: Private collection
Historical Context &...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Singerie 18th Century Whimsical Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental Singerie (monkeys imitating human behavior) 18th century whimsical painting in the style of Christopher Huet
In good antique condition w...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Very Fine 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Nude Figures in Classical Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Figures in Ancient Landscape
Italian School, 18th century
oil on panel,
painting: 9 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Singer by Candlelight (Dutch School Old Master Genre Scene)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Dutch School painting dating from 17th century. Oil on wood panel measuring 10 3/8 x 14 7/16 inches. Unsigned. No inpainting or conservation.
Depicted is a scene with a beautiful young woman singing...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
17th Century Maestro della Flagellazione di Cesena Morra players Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Maestro della Flagellazione di Cesena, active in the second decade of the 17th century
Title: The morra players
Year: 1620 ca.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 115 x ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Moses Striking Water from the Rock
By Pier (Pietro) Dandini
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Moses Striking Water from the Rock;
Circle of Pietro Dandini, Italian 1646-1712
Italian School, late 17th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 3...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Noblewoman Santi di Tito 16th Century Paint Oil on table Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Santi di Tito (Sansepolcro, 1536 - Florence, 1603)
Portrait of a noblewoman, half-length, with a book in her hand
16th century
Oil on panel 75 x 61 cm. - with frame 115 x 101...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
$29,516 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century by Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, Portrait of Saint Peter, Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, (Carona, Italy, 1677 – 1757 ca.)
Title: Portrait of Saint Peter
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 75.5 x 63 cm - with frame 96 x 83 x 5 cm
Not signed
Expertise by Professor Giancarlo Sestieri
Provenance: Luigi Koeliker - Koetser Collection. Collection number 858 on verso.
The apostle in half-length portrait, looking upwards. His shoulders are bare from his blue shirt, a brown cloak is draped over his arm. In his hand he holds the ‘keys to paradise’, which make him attributively recognisable. The bearded face shows the pleading remorse for his defamation of Christ described in the biblical account. The painting style immediately reveals Petrini's brushwork. The painter, who was born in Ticino, is one of the northern Italian-Lombard artists of the late Baroque period, who was possibly associated with Bartolomeo Guidobono (1654-1709) in Turin after 1700 and is documented with works in his home city between 1711 and 1753. Works by his hand were mainly found in the Como, Bergamo and Lugano areas. Other depictions of St Peter can be found in the church of Dubino and in a private collection in Montagnola. In 1991, an exhibition of his works was organised at the Villa Malpensata in Lugano, Switzerland. The painter was the son of a sculptor and, according to the sources, a pupil of the Genoese painter Bartolomeo Guidobono (1654-1709). However, he was also inspired by the works of Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). Works by his hand can be found in several churches in Piedmont, such as San Maurizio in Pinerolo. At the end of the 1730s, a strong development towards the Rococo style can be recognised, as demonstrated by his ‘Allegories of the Seasons’ (Lugano Art...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Female Figure after Salvator Rosa - Etching by Allan Ramsay - 18th Century
By Allan Ramsay
Located in Roma, IT
Nude female figure is a print realized by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) after Salvator Rosa, in the late 18th century.
Etching on paper.
Good conditions, with foxing on ...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Pietro Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Pietro Campana.
Signed on plate on the ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Expertised Italian 14th Century Gold Ground on Panel Painting
Located in Roma, IT
Museum-quality gold ground painting from the Renaissance period by Smeraldo di Giovanni.
It depicts the “Virgin of the Roses” seated on a throne h...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
French Modernist Cubist Painting a Summer Day's Sailing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Summer Day's Sailing
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
A summer feel to this sunny image by a small harbo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Acrylic
"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 and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Italian Portrait Credited to Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi
Located in Roma, IT
18th Century Italian Portrait Credited to Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi
The painting probably depicts a young nobleman of Savoy court ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowering Feverfew Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Matricaria Flore Simplici, Matricaria Flore Pleno, depicting flowering Feverfew and Double-flowered Feverfew plants, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. The feverfew plant is also known as featherfew, featherfoil, or bachelor’s buttons...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of Flying Childers Racehorse Oil on Canvas British 18th Century
Located in London, GB
Thomas Spencer (British, active c. 1740-1756)
A Portrait of Flying Childers
Oil on canvas
With an incorrect label "a racehorse second at new
market by John Wotton”
With an indistinct...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Fine 17th Century Flemish Old Master Oil Painting Travellers Country Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers in a Country Landscape
circle of Jacques d'Arthois (Flemish 1613-1686)
oil on canvas, framed
frame: 13.5 x 18.5 inches
canvas: 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collectio...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil





