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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
ANCIENT CYPRIOT LIMESTONE HEAD OF A VOTARY, ARCHAIC PERIOD LATE 6TH CENTURY
Located in Milan, IT
PROVENANCE
Louis de Clercq (1836-1901), Paris
Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner
LITERATURE
A. de Rid...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Limestone
17th-18th Century By Benedetto Luti Head of a Girl Oil Pastel on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Benedetto Luti (Florence, Italy, 1666 - Rome, Italy, 1724)
Title: Head of a Girl
Medium: Oil pastel on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 28 x 23.5 cm - with frame 38.5 x 33.5 cm
Orig...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel
Spanish 18th C. Oil on Canvas"Still Life with Walnuts, Melon, Grapes and Orange"
Located in Madrid, ES
SPANISH SCHOOL
18th CENTURY
STILL LIFE WITH WALNUTS, MELON, GRAPES AND ORANGE
unsigned
oil on canvas
15-3/4 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm.)
framed: 24-1/2 x 28-3/4 inches (62 x 72.5 cm.)
...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th c. French Portrait of a Lady by Jean Ranc (1674 - 1735), Paris circa 1700
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a Lady with carnations
By Jean Ranc (Montpellier 1674 - Madrid 1735), circa 1700
Oil on canvas in oval shape,
Dimensions: h. 35.82, w. 28.34 in.
Period Louis XIV giltwood and carved frame with laurel leaves.
Framed dimensions: h. 42.52 in, w. 33.85 in.
Provenance: Collection of the Marquis de Bailleul at the Château d'Angerville-Bailleul (before 1942).
To be included in the catalog raisonné of the artist by Stephane Perreau
Important portrait of a young woman depicted half-length turned three-quarters, her face looking at the viewer.
Dressed in a brick red velvet dress, an elegant blue scarf envelops her figure.
Hair styled “a la Fontange”, her powdered hair is raised and tied at the back with a red ribbon, several curly locks escape from her bun and fall on her back and shoulders.
The perfectly oval face with regular features dominated by her straight nose is softened by her gray eyes with slightly lowered lids. The red tinged skin tones on the cheeks and cheekbones color the face and make the portrait come alive.
The young woman is portrayed standing near a pot of carnations. Her strongly lighted figure stands out against an architectural background of columns.
The artist's palette is made of contrasts opposing warm to cold hues. The icy electric blue contrasts with the fiery brick red, the hair powdered with white accentuates even more the flush of the cheeks.
The left arm bent at the elbow, extending the open hand with slightly bent fingers in the foreground brings depth to the composition.
Our portrait, an interesting testimony in the corpus of works of the painter, is part of his youthful period, around 1700-1705.
The former belonging of this portrait to the Marquis de Bailleul reinforces the remarkable character of our painting.
The portrait has been examined by Stéphane Perreau, specialist of Jean Ranc and will be included in the catalog raisonné currently being written, under number P. 43. The notice edited by Mr Perreau is below:
"Painted around 1700-1705, this portrait of a woman is directly inherited from Hyacinthe Rigaud, the master of Jean Ranc (the hand turned over the front, in a watch...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian School of the 17th Century : Saint Jerome with a Lion - Oil Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Italy : Venetian school of the 17th century
Saint Jerome wit a Lion, circa 1620
Oil on panel
Unsigned
On wood board 49 x 30 cm
Good condition, accidents/wear (see photos)
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon (1735-1788), 18th century
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon (1735-1788), 18th century
School of Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Large 18th portrait of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon, oil on canvas. E...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,128 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Canvas
$12,158 Sale Price
20% Off
Falda Giovanni Battista and De Rossi Giovanni Giacomo Plan of Villa Farnesina
Located in Roma, IT
A very interesting and important Engraving, framed between two glasses and two colors natural and gilded wood frame of the Plan of the palace of Caprarola that inspired the American ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper
1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies
Attriubted to Cornelis Schut
(1597 - 1655) Flemish
ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount
size: 4.75 x 7 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overa...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$921 Sale Price
30% Off
Aegidius Sadeler II Engraving "Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, Roman Emperor"
By Aegidius Sadeler II
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Aegidius Sadeler II
Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, from set of Roman Emperors and Empresses, c. 16th-17th century
Engraving
Publisher: Marcus Christoph Sadeler
Sight: 15 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 in.
This image was conceived in the 16th century by Aegidius Sadeler II and published by Marcus Christoph Sadeler. It is unclear when the present version was executed.
Aegidius Sadeler or Aegidius Sadeler II[1] (1570–1629) was a Flemish engraver who was principally active at the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and his successors. Sadeler was born in Antwerp in the Sadeler family of print dealers and engravers. He was the son of Emmanuel de Sayeleer and the nephew of Aegidius I, Jan I en Raphael Sadeler.[2] He was trained by his uncle Jan I and became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1589. He was active in Munich the next year in 1590, in Rome in 1593, in Naples and then again in Munich in 1594–1597. From 1597 he settled in Prague where he became court engraver for Rudolf II and made engraved portraits of notables and engravings after artworks there, most notably paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Hans von Aachen, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and sculptures by Giambologna and Adriaen de Vries.
His early engravings were mostly faithful copies of works by Albrecht Dürer in the Imperial collection and copies of paintings by notable Italian painters such as Raphael, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Barocci and Titian or by Northern painters who worked there, such as Paul Bril and Denys Calvaert. In Prague he also engraved portraits of the notables of Rudolf's court, and collaborated with Spranger, Joseph Heintz the Elder, Jacobus Typotius and his friend Anselmus Boece de Boodt (1550-1632), Rudolf II's gemologist and physician.[3]
After Rudolf II died he enjoyed the favour and protection of the two succeeding Emperors, Matthias and Ferdinand II.[4][5] According to Michael Bryan...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints
Located in Middletown, NY
Joseph de Montalegre (after)
Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints
1702-1725. Four (4) reproductive prints with handcoloring on thick C.M. Fabriano cotton wove ...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
¿De qué mal morirá? - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
¿De qué mal morirá? from the first edition of Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published in 1799.
Etching and aquatint on paper.
The etching is part of the First Edition of "Los Caprichos" published by the Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia of Madrid.
Plate N. 40. Numbered on the upper right corner, with very fresh inking and sheet in good condition.
Titled on the lower central margin " ¿De qué mal morirá? " (What's going to happen?).
Good conditions.
Dimensions of plate: 2 x 3.4 cm. Assez bonnes marges.
A scene that makes us reflect upon the condition of poor people during the Spanish court...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Gathering in antique Ruins, a monogrammed painting by Jan van Haensbergen
By Jan Van Haensbergen
Located in PARIS, FR
Jan van Haensbergen was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age and a pupil of Cornelius van Poelenburgh (Utrecht 1594 - 1667). The painting we are presenting is inspired by Poelenburgh’s landscapes from his Italian sojourn. The dreamlike atmosphere of this Gathering in antique ruins appealed to us. Against a backdrop of antique ruins, three draped characters (perhaps bathers) are sitting in a circle, greeting a fourth character walking towards them.
Their tranquility contrasts with the bustle of the other characters in the background. They constitute a vivid illustration of otium, this leisure time that allows us to realize our full potential. With this Arcadian landscape, Jan van Haensbergen invites us in turn to leave the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind, to take a break, to enjoy the present moment chatting with close friends…
1. Jan van Haensbergen, a landscape and portrait painter of the Dutch Golden Age
Jan van Haensbergen was born in 1642 in Gorinchem, a town in southern Holland to the east of Rotterdam. He was a pupil of Cornelius van Poelenburgh, and began by painting landscapes inspired by those of his master, in an Italianate style. Between 1668 and 1669, he was registered at the Guild of Saint Luke in Utrecht.
In 1669, he moved to The Hague, where he joined the Confrérie Pictura, an artist society founded in 1656. His portraits, which became his main activity as a painter after settling in The Hague, were strongly influenced by Caspar Netscher (Prague or Heidelberg 1639 - The Hague 1684), whom he met in The Hague and whose son Constantijn became his son-in-law by marrying his daughter Magdalena.
In addition to his work as an artist, Van Haensbergen was also an art dealer, probably helped by his appointment as Dean of the Confrérie Pictura, where he also teached.
2. Description of the artwork and related paintings
This painting seems to us to be a kind of allegory of otium, that quiet bliss promised by Epicurus. It might even evoke an Epicurean proverb: "It is better to lie on the naked ground and be at ease, than to have a golden carriage and a rich table and be worried" .
Three draped young people - two men and a woman in the background - are seated in a circle, greeting a fourth figure walking towards them, hair disheveled and body draped in a towel as if drying off after a bath, indicating the need for prior purification to fully enjoy this rest. Their nonchalance contrasts with the bustle of the various characters in the background.
The composition is punctuated by successive diagonals, and opens onto a landscape on the right, with a succession of mountainous planes. This painting is typical of the Italianate works produced by Van Haensbergen in the 1660s under the influence of Cornelis van Poelenburgh...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oak, Oil
Romantic Light 18th Century Dutch Oil Pastoral Scene Bergers Cattle by River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastoral Landscape
Dutch painter, 18th century
oil on canvas, framed in antique frame
framed: 22 x 25 inches
canvas: 18.5 x 22 inches
Provenance: Private collection, France
Condition...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Peasants Playing Bowls Outside an Inn, 17th Century Oil on Oak Old Master
Located in London, GB
Studio of David Teniers the Younger
1610 - 1690
Peasants Playing Bowls Outside an Inn
Oil on oak cradled panel, signed
Image size: 16 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Gilt s...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
Category
Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
A Chinese Nobleman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Beggar with a Wooden Leg
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on handmade wove paper, 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches (95 x 70 mm), thread margins. Third state (of five), likely printed early 19th century. In very good condition with light handlin...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching, Handmade Paper
Veduta in Prospettiva della gran Fontana dell'Acqua Vergine detta di Trevi
Located in New York, NY
Etching, 1773.
From the Vedute di Roma.
Framed dimensions 25.5 x 34.5 inches.
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Offering Post- Aitos, INDONESIAN , Tetum People, Timor Island
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Indonesian offer post from the Tetum people of Timor Island. The work is stone and is unsigned.
Category
Tribal 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
"Cormorant and Egret" Japanese Woodblock Print of Birds in Water & Nature Poem
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro the First (Japanese, 1753 - 1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Japanese, 1750 - 1797)
Page Size: 10 x 15 in.
Frame Size: 16 x 22 in.
An Edo Period color woo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) 1784 Captain Cooks Final voyage by John Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Kamtschatka (Russia) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was t...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
The Travellers
By Richard Wilson R.A.
Located in St. Albans, GB
Richard WILSON
Circa 1780
Canvas Size: 28 x 38" (71 x 97cm)
Outside Frame Size: 42 x 52" (107 x 132cm)
Free Shipping
A chance to acquire a rare piece by Richard Wilson. This impos...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Framed 18th Century Pen and Ink Drawings - Designs for Capital & Base Supports
Located in Corsham, GB
Framed 18th-century pen and ink drawings of elaborate capital and base supports, inspired by Ancient Greek architecture and design. Well presented in a fluted gilt-effect frame. Unsi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Pen
Framed 18th Century Engravings - The Monument & St. James's Palace
Located in Corsham, GB
A pair of 18th-century engravings of London, framed as one. The Monument to the Great Fire of London (top). St James's Palace (bottom). Inscribed i...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
ANCIENT BRONZE HEAD OF AN ELEPHANT, ROMAN EMPIRE 2ND CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
This beautiful cast bronze elephant head is a protome, which in ancient art was a decorative element consisting of a head - sometimes with part of the bust - of a human, animal, or f...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
The Angel Gabriel Jesus & Satan 17th Century after DOMENICHINO (1581-1641)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Angel Gabriel Jesus & Satan 18th Century
afterf Domenichino (1581-1641)
Large 18th Century Italian Bolognese School Old Master depiction of the Guardian Angel Gabriel, Jesus an...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,348 Sale Price
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After Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) - 1627 Engraving, The Agony in the Garden
Located in Corsham, GB
A 17th century engraving by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675) after 'The Agony in the Garden' by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). According to the lettering, this plate was made at the co...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Soldier begging for Mercy a preparatory study by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare drawing by Nattier is part of a set of preparatory studies executed in 1717 for one of the painter's first commissions, the painting commissioned by Tsar Peter I of Russia ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Chalk
Madonna and Donor (an Ecclesiastic)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction from a collection of drawings by Flemish and Dutch masters of the XV-XVII Centuries preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna, Austria. Published by Campbell Dodgs...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Lithograph
Exceptional Italian Neoclassical Sphinx Carrara Marble Statue
Located in Rome, IT
Outstanding Italian Neoclassical Sphinx Carrara Marble sculpture designed as entrance guardian, this mythical lady sphinx statuary display the head and chest of a neoclassical woma...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Piranesi 18th C. Etching "Reliquiae Theartri Pompejani" an Ancient Roman Theater
Located in Alamo, CA
This a framed Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) etching entitled "Reliquiae Theartri Pompejani" (Remains of the Theatre of Pompey) from "Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma" (The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1762. It depicts the remains of an ancient theater in Rome with exposed seating and an arch still standing in the foreground. An inset shows an architectural side view of a portion of the structure.
The etching is presented in an antiqued silver-colored wood frame with a cream-colored French mat. The frame measures 24" x 20.75" x 1.25". The print is in excellent condition.
The Theatre of Pompey (Latin: Theatrum Pompeii, Italian: Teatro di Pompeo) was a structure in Ancient Rome built during the latter part of the Roman Republican era by Pompey the Great...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Possibly Antonio Amici Moretti, Rome, 1690
Roy Clyde Gardner, Union, Mississippi, 1970s until 2004; by whom given to:
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2004-2010
Lit...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pompelmus (Grapefruit): An Early 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Volckamer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of the anatomy of grapefruit by Johann Christoph Volkhamer, entitled "Pompelmus (Grapefruit), Der Herra Sitz und Burg...
Category
Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of an infamous thief
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating image of a well-known theif robbing a merchant of goods held atop her head.
Paris: circa 1670.
Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (17...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
The Artist's Mother (B343), Heliogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - The Artist's Mother (B343), Year: 1878 (of original 1631), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 5.75 x 5 in. (14.61 x 12.7...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Attributed à H. Francken II, 17th c. Anwerp - The prodigal son among courtesans
Located in PARIS, FR
The Prodigal Son Among Courtesans
Attributed to Hieronymus Francken II (Antwerp 1578-1623)
Early 17th century Antwerp school
Oil on oak panel,
Dimensions: H. 52.5 cm (20.67 in), W. 74 cm (29.14 in)
Flemish-style moulded wood frame
Frame: h. 78 cm (h. 30.70 in.), w. 100 cm (39.37 in.)
At first glance, this festive and joyful painting depicts a group of elegantly dressed people dancing to the sound of an orchestra in a richly decorated interior with a wide opening onto a rural exterior. However, the real theme is cleverly concealed by the painter and is only discernible through the artifice of a small scene in the background where we see a half-naked man, in the company of the pigs next to a makeshift shelter.
In fact, beyond the pleasant and apparently superficial character of the painting, it is a subject taken from the parable of the prodigal son in the Gospel. The illustrated episode is the prodigal son among courtesans.
Even if the viewer's attention is drawn to the central couple (prodigal son embracing a pretty courtesan) doing the dance steps, the artist takes care in a narrative approach of all the groups and ancillary scenes in order to create a rich and varied composition. Thus the musicians seated on a raised platform are depicted with great skill, their faces animated, their clothes abundantly varied.
The theme of music, which has always been associated with that of sensuality and physical love, helps to exacerbate licentious pleasures.
The merry company dances "Spanish pavane", a slow court dance from the sixteenth century, danced close to the ground by couples arranged in a procession, which was probably introduced to the south of the Netherlands around 1600 during the governance of Albrecht VII and the daughter of the King of Spain Isabella Clara Eugenia in Brussels.
The interior of the house is also carefully elaborated, the embossed leather dyes on the walls, the middle sideboard (typical in Francken interiors), where the rich gold and silver crockery is placed in front of the painting "Andromeda chained to the rock and Perseus arriving to rescue her". The inclusion of a contemporary and probably extant pictorial work is also one of the characteristics of the Francken family, among them Frans Francken the Younger...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oak, Oil
Jean Baptist Marie Huet Three Cherubs, Restrike from Musee du Louvre
By Jean Baptist Marie Huet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exquisite piece, titled Three Cherubs, is a lithographic reproduction from La Calcographie du Louvre, printed on fine Lana paper. The artwork captures the whimsical charm of che...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
$720 Sale Price
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ANCIENT ROMAN MARBLE ALTAR FRAGMENT, 1ST/2ND CENTURY A.D.
Located in Milan, IT
Roman Marble Altar fragment from the 1st/2nd Century A.D. with the typical element of Roman rituals.
Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic - Early 17th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Flemish School, Early 17th Century
Portrait of a Boy in a Black Tunic
Oil on panel
Image size: 15¾ x 13⅛ inches
This accomplished portrait of an unknown boy in his early teens was p...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Le Roy Mene au Trone from Series Le Sacre de Louis XV 1722-1731
Located in Paonia, CO
Le Roy Mene au Trone from the Series Le Sacre de Louis XV (1722-1731 ) is an etching by French artist Charles Nicolas Cochin the Elder ( 1688-1754...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
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 and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Of Grapes In The Vineyard, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Still Life Of Grapes In The Vineyard, 17th Century
Pierre Antoine Lemoyne (French 1605-1665) similar to $250,000
Huge 17th Century French Old Master study of grapes in the vineyard, oil on canvas by Pierre Antoine Lemoyne. Excellent quality and condition study of the vines and grapes growing before a rustic building. Exceptional detail and rare early work of art on the subject of wine making...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,700 Sale Price
20% Off
Baroque 17th century German fountain design engraving print by Boeckler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baroque 17th century German fountain design
Copper-line engraving, published in 1664 in Nuremberg. From 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' by George Andreas B...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Ruine di Sepolcro antico
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ruine di Sepolcro antico
Etching, 1743
Signed in the plate bottomleft in the caaption plate
From: Prima Parte, 1743
Second edition: 1750-1778
Watermark: R 37-39
A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s
Coniditon: Excellent/Very good
Image size: 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Reference: Robison 17 iii/V
Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive
"Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
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Etching
Escuela Mejicana (XVIII) - San Antonio con niño
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Interesante oleo sobre tabla de San Antonio de padua realizado en el siglo xviii
Es de escuela Mexicana
El estado es bueno
Medidas de la obra: ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Bust-length study of a fashionable lady, c. 1760s
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Robert Healy (1743-1771) (attrib.)
Bust-length study of a fashionable lady, c. 1760s
Black chalk on prepared laid blue paper, heightened with white
15.6 x 24.4 cm.; (within frame) 5...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Chalk
Four Koa Wood Framed 18th C. Engravings from Captain Cook's 3rd Voyage Journal
By John Webber
Located in Alamo, CA
A grouping of four framed engravings of Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga and Vancouver Island from the atlas of the official British Admiralty sanctioned journal of Captain Cook's 3rd Voyage entitled "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere", published upon completion of the voyage in London in 1784 by Strahan & Cadell. These engravings were made from drawings by John Webber (1752-1793), who was the artist on Captain James Cook's 3rd and final voyage of discovery. The set of engravings includes: "A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked", Plate 65 in the atlas; "A Dance in Otaheite" (Tahiti), Plate 28; "King of the Friendly Islands" (Tonga), plate 20; "Inside of a House in Nootka Sound" (Canada), plate 42.
These engravings are professionally framed in Koa wood, the same wood as was used to make the canoes of the ancient Hawaiians. Koa wood is legendary in Hawaii. Not only is this amazing wood native to Hawaii, but it is known for the deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has an honored heritage in Hawaii and is highly revered and sacred. The word “koa” means “warrior” in Hawaiian. The warriors of King Kamehameha the Great, created canoes and weapons from a wood plentiful on the Big Island of Hawaii. This wood became synonymous with the warriors themselves, and it became known as koa.
These four engravings would make a wonderful grouping for a display of 2, 3 or 4 prints. They may be purchased separately or in groups on 1stDibs. Their listing Reference #'s are: LU117324682432, LU117324682022, LU117324684052 and LU117324684062. A discount is available for a grouping depending on the number of items included.
Hawaii was discovered by Captain Cook (1728-1779) during this voyage. Hawaii was originally called The Sandwich Islands in honor of The Earl of Sandwich...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
The Hunting Party, 17th Century - School of Simon KICK (1603-1652)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Hunting Party, 17th Century
School of Simon KICK (1603-1652)
Huge 17th Century Dutch Old Master interior of a hunting party after the hunt, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition that would signifcantly enhance with a light clean. Presented in an antique gilt frame. Exceptionally detailed and early interior hunting portrait...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,357 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Copper Engraving - Portico Architectural Details
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully-detailed French antique copper engraving showing the architectural details of a portico from Recueil d'Architecture, 1780.
Original ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
French Neoclassical Design for Candlesticks, engraving after Delafosse
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, 'Nouvelle Iconologie Historique' in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving
17th Century Italian Old Master Fine Portrait of St. Nicholas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
St. Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305)
Italian School, 17th century
oil painting on canvas,
canvas: 10 x 8 inches
provenance: private collection, Germany
Very fine and rare 17th century Italian Old...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
$6,825 Sale Price
30% Off
Monumento al Popolo - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Monumento al popolo is an original drawing realized by Giovanni Fontana in the 16th century.
Ivory colored paper attached on an ivory colored sheet.
Includes frame: 48.5 x 1 x 44 c
Beautiful drawing in graphite, representing the funeral monument...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$3,784 Sale Price
25% Off
Attributed to Francesco Casanova (1727-1803), A Mamluk fighting , watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Francesco Casanova (1727-1803),
A Mamluk fighting on his horse,
watercolor and ink on paper
35 x 26 cm
Framed 54 x 44 cm (vintage frame, the mount and the back have b...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait Of A Lady, Believed to be Miss Craigie, 18th Century
By Sir Allan Ramsay
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Lady, Believed to be Miss Craigie, 18th Century
circle of Allan RAMSAY (1713-1784)
Fine large 18th century portrait of a Lady in a. white dress, believed to be a Mi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$6,128 Sale Price
20% Off
Figure of Man - Original Pencil Drawing by Augustin de Saint-Aubin- 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807).
Good condition included a green and white cardboard passpartout (65x48 cm).
No signatur...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Pencil
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
17th Century Onorio Marinari Italian Religious Painting
By Onorio Marinari
Located in Roma, IT
A very important painting by the great artist of the Florentine school, Onorio Marinari.
Dr. Silvia Benassai has confirmed Marinari’s authorship of the Saint Margaret of Antioch; ava...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Head of a Cheerful Man Wearing a Cap
Located in New York, NY
Watermark: the arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 46; where acquired by:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Roger Adolf d’Hulst, “Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II,” Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2 (1990), pp. 153-156, no. A237a, fig. 17.
Matías Díaz Padrón, Jacob Jordaens...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
17th Century Baroque Old Master Oil Painting Stag Hunting Party in Landscape
By Philipp Peter Roos (Rosa di Tivoli)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Hunting Party
German/ Italian School
circle of Philipp Peter Roos (German 1655-1706)
oil on canvas, unframed
19 x 31 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,340 Sale Price
30% Off
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