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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Recognized Seller Listings
Study of a Bull and Study of Two Heads with Laurel Crowns (recto and verso)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
(Possibly) Wilhelm Suida; thence by descent to:
Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996
Private Collection, USA
Traditionally attributed to the French...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Study of a Nude Man
By Francesco Maffei
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
John Barnard, London (Lugt 1419) or possibly Saint John Dent, London and Milton (Lugt 1438)
Unidentified collector’s mark “W,” lower left of the mount (Lugt 2591a)
Private Collection, USA.
This expressive and boldly executed drawing is a work by Francesco Maffei...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The Resurrection of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
with “Mr. Scheer,” Vienna, by July 1918; where acquired by:
Jindřich Waldes, Prague, 1918–1941; thence by descent to:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Rudolf Kuchynka, “České obrazy tabulové ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Památky archeologické, vol. 31 (1919), pp. 62-64, fig. 5.
Jaroslav Pešina, “K datování deskových obrazů ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Ročenka Kruhu pro Pěstování Dějin Umění: za rok (1934), pp. 131-137.
Jaroslav Pešina, Pozdně gotické deskové malířství v Čechách, Prague, 1940, pp. 150-151, 220.
Patrik Šimon, Jindřich Waldes: sběratel umění, Prague, 2001, pp. 166, 168, footnote 190.
Ivo Hlobil, “Tři gotické obrazy ze sbírky Jindřicha Waldese,” Umění, vol. 52, no. 4 (2004), p. 369.
Executed sometime in the 1380s or 1390s by a close associate of the Master of the
Třeboň Altarpiece, this impressive panel is a rare work created at the royal court in Prague and a significant re-discovery for the corpus of early Bohemian painting. It has emerged from an American collection, descendants of the celebrated Czech industrialist and collector Jindřich Waldes, who died in Havana fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
The distinctive visual tradition of the Bohemian school first began to take shape in the middle of the fourteenth century after Charles IV—King of Bohemia and later Holy Roman Emperor—established Prague as a major artistic center. The influx of foreign artists and the importation of significant works of art from across Europe had a profound influence on the development of a local pictorial style. Early Italian paintings, especially those by Sienese painters and Tommaso da Modena (who worked at Charles IV’s court), had a considerable impact on the first generation of Bohemian painters. Although this influence is still felt in the brilliant gold ground and the delicate tooling of the present work, the author of this painting appears to be responding more to the paintings of his predecessors in Prague than to foreign influences.
This Resurrection of Christ employs a compositional format that was popular throughout the late medieval period but was particularly pervasive in Bohemian painting. Christ is shown sitting atop a pink marble sarcophagus, stepping down onto the ground with one bare foot. He blesses the viewer with his right hand, while in his left he holds a triumphal cross with a fluttering banner, symbolizing his victory over death. Several Roman soldiers doze at the base of the tomb, except for one grotesque figure, who, beginning to wake, shields his eyes from the light and looks on with a face of bewilderment as Christ emerges from his tomb. Christ is wrapped in a striking red robe with a blue interior lining, the colors of which vary subtly in the changing light. He stands out prominently against the gold backdrop, which is interrupted only by the abstractly rendered landscape and trees on either side of him.
The soldiers’ armor is rendered in exacting detail, the cool gray of the metal contrasting with the earth tones of the outer garments. The sleeping soldier set within a jumble of armor with neither face nor hands exposed, is covered with what appears to be a shield emblazoned with two flies on a white field, somewhat resembling a cartouche (Fig. 1). This may be a heraldic device of the altarpiece’s patron or it may signify evil, referencing either the Roman soldiers or death, over both of which Christ triumphs.
This painting formed part of the collection assembled by the Czech industrialist and founder of the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company, Jindřich Waldes, in the early twentieth century. As a collector he is best remembered for establishing the Waldes Museum in Prague to house his collection of buttons (totaling nearly 70,000 items), as well as for being the primary patron of the modernist painter František Kupka. Waldes was also an avid collector of older art, and he approached his collecting activity with the goal of creating an encyclopedic collection of Czech art from the medieval period through to the then-present day. At the conclusion of two decades of collecting, his inventory counted 2331 paintings and drawings, 4764 prints, and 162 sculptures. This collection, which constituted the Waldesova Obrazárna (Waldes Picture Gallery), was first displayed in Waldes’ home in Prague at 44 Americká Street and later at his newly built Villa Marie at 12 Koperníkova Street. This Resurrection of Christ retains its frame from the Waldes Picture Gallery, including its original plaque “173 / Česky malíř z konce 14 stol.” (“Czech painter from the end of the 14th century”) and Waldes’ collection label on the reverse.
The Resurrection of Christ was one of the most significant late medieval panel...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Procession Ornament
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Chinese Procession Ornament dating from the Liao Dynasty, from 907 to 1125 AD. The Liao Dynasty, also known as the Khitan Empire, was an empire in northern China that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper. It was founded by the Yelu family of the Khitan people in the final years of the Tang Dynasty, even though its first ruler, Yelu Abaoji, did not declare an era name until 916. The Liao Empire was destroyed by the Jurchen of the Jin Dynasty in 1125. However, remnants of its people led by Yelu Dashi established the Xi (or Western) Liao Dynasty 1125 - 1220, also known as Kara - Khitan Khanate, which survived until the arrival of Genghis Khan...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman
By Vittore Ghislandi
Located in New York, NY
Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario
Provenance:
Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, ca. 1966-1996
Private Collection, USA
Exhibited:
“Eighteenth Century European Pai...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Copper
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
Suite of 12 Views of Italy
By Franz Weirotter
Located in New York, NY
Franz Weirotter (1730-1771), Suite of 12 Views of Italy, etchings, 1759 [most signed in the plate by Weirotter]. Reference: Nagel 5. 10 printed in pairs on one sheet; one on a small...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
A bay horse with groom and dog
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Francis Sartorius (1734-1804)
A bay horse with groom and dog
Signed and dated 'F.Sartorius.Pinxt.1788' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 14 1/4 x 18 in
Framed Size - 19 1/2 x...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
Woodcuts
Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
A PAIR of Landscapes.
By Abraham Pether
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Abraham Pether (1756-1812)
'Landscape near Chichester' and 'Drovers in a landscape'
A pair, Oil on canvas
One signed and inscribed 'Chichester'
Canvas size - 16 x 20 5/8 in
Framed si...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Pineapple Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann from "Phytanthosa Iconographia." Ratisbon, 1737-1745.
This plate: No. 113 Ananas Folio Latiore.
Mezzotint engraving printed in color and...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Laid Paper
A view at Tivoli
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Rathbone (1750-1807)
View at Tivoli
Signed lower right
Oil on Canvas
Canvas size - 18 x 24 in
Framed size - 24 x 30 in
John Rathbone was born in Cheshire in 1750 and worked as ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
A horse and groom with a dog
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Francis Sartorius (1734-1804)
A horse and groom with a dog
signed 'F.Sartorius.Pinxt' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 14 1/4 x 18 in
Framed Size - 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 in
Franc...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
A horse and groom with a dog
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Francis Sartorius (1734-1804)
A horse and groom with a dog
signed and dated 'F.Sartorius.Pinxt.1777' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 14 1/4 x 18 in
Framed Size - 16 1/2 x 1...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
View of Shipping on the River Avon from Durdham Down, near Bristol
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Thomas Smith of Derby (c. 1710-1767)
View of Shipping on the River Avon from Durdham Down, near Bristol, 1756
Oil on canvas
Canvas size - 20 x 47 in
Framed size - 26 x 53 in
Provena...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Aloe Plant Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann from "Phytanthosa Iconographia." Ratisbon, 1737-1745.
This plate: N. 304 Caranna.[Palm Tree].
Mezzotint engraving printed in color and f...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Laid Paper
Fisherfolk unloading the days catch
By John Thomas Serres
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Thomas Serres (1759-1825)
Fisherfolk unloading the days catch
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 17 x 25 in
Framed Size - 22 x 30 in
John Thomas Serres, a luminary in the realm of mar...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Baptism of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Achillito Chiesa, Milan
Luigi Albrighi, Florence, by 1 July 1955
with Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1969
Private Collection, Connecticut
Exhibited:
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (on loan, 2012)
Literature:
Carlo Volpe, “Alcune restituzioni al Maestro dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta,” in Quaderni di Emblema 2: Miscellanea di Bonsanti, Fahy, Francisci, Gardner, Mortari, Sestieri, Volpe, Zeri, Bergamo, 1973, pp. 19-20, fig. 18, as by the Master of Saints Quiricus and Julitta (now identified as Borghese di Piero).
This fine predella panel depicting the Baptism...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Tempera
Study of a hound in a landscape
By Sawrey Gilpin
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807)
Study of a hound in a landscape
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 14 x 17 in
Framed Size - 17 x 20 in
Provenance: Victor Brockbank Fine Art, London;
Private Collection, London.
Sawrey Gilpin was a member of an old Cumberland family who chose a career in sporting painting, at which he was encouraged as a young man by the great Duke of Cumberland who had suppressed the Jacobite rising of 1745. Gilpin, though centred on London, always retained his Northern links, and had as patron many northern sportsman, like the sporting fanatic Colonel Thornton of Thornville Royal for whom he painted numerous pictures.
Gilpin has suffered from being under the shadow of his incomparable contemporary George Stubbs, but he emerges as a leading horse and animal painter of a competence which is always reliable and occasionally inspired. He is an important link between the early English School of Wootton, Tillemans and the like, and the later painters exemplified by Ferneley and Herring. He was the president of the Society of Artists in 1773, and was elected RA in 1797.
A clubbable man, he was popular with his fellow Royal Academicians. He frequently collaborated with them, adding portraits of favourite animals to numerous pictures by Barret, Walton, Romney, Zoffany, Reinagle and even the young Turner. He was the teacher of Thomas Gooch...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens
Located in New York, NY
Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677), Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens, 1649, with text and signatures as described below. Ref...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
S. Paolo Fuori Le Mura (Vedute della Basilica di S. Paolo fuor della mura)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
S. Paolo Fuori Le Mura (Vedute della Basilica di S. Paolo fuor della mura)
Etching, 1748
From...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Folio from a Book of Hours, c.1475 Delft (Holland)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Folio from a Book of Hours, c.1475
Delft (Holland)
red, blue and black Ink on vellum, c. 1475
Unsigned as is usual
Most probably created at the Church of St. Agnes, by the women of t...
Category
Medieval 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The C
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The Capitol and the Steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli)
Etching, 1775
Watermark: Double Circle Fleur de Lys
A li...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Hand-Colored Penguin Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, hand-colored at the time of publication, after the work of George Edwards from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel" by Johann Michael Seligma...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Laid Paper
Gimcrack with jockey up, wearing the colours of 1st Earl Grosvenor
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Nost Sartorius (London 1759-1828)
Gimcrack with jockey up, wearing the colours of Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
Inscribed and signed 'Gi...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
A farmstead in a landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
George Morland (1763-1804)
A farmstead in a landscape
Oil on canvas
Signed 'Morland' lower right
Painting Size - 18 1/2 x 24 in
Framed Size - 22 x 28 in
George Morland was born in J...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Sir Richard Sutton's foxhounds
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Ferneley Snr (1782-1860 Melton Mowbray)
Sir Richard Sutton's foxhounds
signed J. Ferneley lower right
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 16 1/8 x 20 1/2 in
Framed Size 21 x 25 in
Proven...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Stark (1794-1859)
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 18 x 24 in
Framed Size 23 x 29 in
James Stark (1794-1859): A Pioneer in Landscape P...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Signed bottom right: Lorski (see photo)
Sheet size: 9 5/16 x 5 13/16 inches
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Condition: Good
Thin spots verso from previous mounting
Soft vertical fold running across image
Barely visible on recto
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dawson's Auctioneers and Appraisers, 2001
Amity Art Foundation
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
Category
Art Deco 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Graphite
A German Pointer with hunting Equipment
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
German School (18th century)
A German Pointer with hunting Equipment
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 42 x 35 in
Framed Size 48 x 41 in
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th century
Provenance:
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)
Phillip Duechnes Bookseller, New York, c. 1948
References And Exhibitions:
Otto F. Ege Box Folio 27
Ege describes these folios as: Epistolary (Epistolarium), Italy, Middle 15th century
Latin Text: Rotunda or Round Gothic Script, square rhetorical neumes
Sister folio are in the following rare book libraries:
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Public Library
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland Public Library
Denison University
Kent State University
Kenyon College...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Thomas Carey
By Paul II van Somer
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Circle of Paul van Somer (Antwerp c. 1577-1621 London)
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Thomas Carey (1597-1634), youngest son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Monmouth
Oil...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero,
Etching, 1756
Signed in the plate (see photo)
From: Le Antichità Roma...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Julius Caesar on Horseback
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, South America
Antonio Tempesta began his career in Florence, working on the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio under the direction of Giorgio Vasari. He was a pupil first of Santi di Tito...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flamingo Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, hand-colored at publication, after the work of Mark Catesby by Johann Michael Seligmann from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel." Nuremberg:...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Laid Paper
'Child and Seeing Hands' — 1970, after the artist's 1948 Surrealist work
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Child and Seeing Hands', photogravure and engraving, edition 9, 1970. Flahutez 4-9. Signed by the artist and numbered '41/90' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impress...
Category
Surrealist 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Engraving, Photogravure
Portrait of a gentleman in red military uniform
By David Morier
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
David Morier (1705-1770)
Portrait of a gentleman in red military uniform
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 32 x 24 in
Framed Size - 39 1/2 x 31 in
Provenance: Sale, Christie's London, 21s...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Verse 1 through Verse 60
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Verse 1 through Verse 60
From: Leyli o Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209CE)
This folio comprises the first 60 verses of the epic Persian poem
“The masnavi of Leyli va Majnun (4,60...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Pigment
Veduta dell'esterno della gran Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veduta dell'esterno della gran Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (View of the Exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican)
Etching, 1748
From the first printing of the "Vedute di...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY DOCUMENT, 1754 Signed by Wm. Shirley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, (Boston - September 10, 1754)
William Shirley (Captain General and Governor in Chief)
Printed and manuscript Document signed. 13 x 17" Complete with official seal...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Located in New York, NY
Castello Sant Angelo from "Vedute di Roma" by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
2nd Roman state, 1754. Etching on laid paper with a watermark of a Fleur-de-Lys in a double circle with CB a...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Laid Paper
St. Peter's Interior with the Nave
Located in Fairlawn, OH
St. Peter's Interior with the Nave
Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano
Etching, 1748
Signed in the plate
From: Vedute di Roma, Plate 5
An early Roman...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
Italian landscape with Monte Socrate (after Jan Both)
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Richard Bankes Harraden (1778-1862)
Italian landscape with Monte Socrate (after Jan Both)
Signed and dated 1823 on the reverse
Oil on canvas
Canvas size - 29 x 41 in
Framed Size - 37...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Etching, 1754
Signed in the plate lower right above the caption
From: Vedute di Roma
A proper Roman printing with the price in the lower right corner. Printed on a Double Circle Fleur de Lys watermark paper, c. 1760, with full margins.
A brilliant impression .
Note: A view of the Tiber River, Castello Sant' Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the distance.
Watermark: Double Circle Fleur de Lys
References: Robison c/g
Hind 29 ii/VII
Foclllon 793
Condition: A Roman printing before the numbers added in Paris. Printed on a Double Circle Fleur-de-Lys watermark paper.
Right margin folded over 5/8 inches for framing.
Usual centerfold as issued in the album.
Slight aging to the sheet.
Binding holes at the left margin edge
Framed with plexi.
Plate size: 14 7/8 x 22 7/8 inches
Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 30 5/16 inches
Frame size: 22 3/4 x 33 1/2 inches
Sant’Angelo Bridge, Italian Ponte Sant’Angelo, ancient (Latin) Pons Aelius, ancient Roman bridge, probably the finest surviving in Rome itself, built over the Tiber by the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–138 AD) to connect the Campus Martius with his mausoleum (later renamed Castel Sant’Angelo). The bridge was completed about AD 135. It consists of seven stone arches and five main spans of about 60 feet (18 m) each, supported on piers 24 feet (7 m) high.
In the 13th century Pope Clement IV installed an iron balustrade and in the 16th century Pope Clement VII placed statues of Saints Peter and Paul...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
Beauty on a Veranda with Fan and Mirror
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Harunobu ga
Series: Series: Eight Fashionable Parlor Views (Furyu zashiki hakkei)?
Format Japanese: chuban
Provenance:
Private Collection, Philadelphia
Collection of McCleaf
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Category
Edo 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
Saint Martin de Porres
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, New York, until 2022.
Martín de Porres was born in Lima in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish-American father, J...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady with a Chiqueador
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Torres Family Collection, Asunción, Paraguay, ca. 1967-2017
While the genre of portraiture flourished in the New World, very few examples of early Spanish colonial portraits have survived to the present day. This remarkable painting is a rare example of female portraiture, depicting a member of the highest echelons of society in Cuzco during the last quarter of the 17th century. Its most distinctive feature is the false beauty mark (called a chiqueador) that the sitter wears on her left temple. Chiqueadores served both a cosmetic and medicinal function. In addition to beautifying their wearers, these silk or velvet pouches often contained medicinal herbs thought to cure headaches.
This painting depicts an unidentified lady from the Creole elite in Cuzco. Her formal posture and black costume are both typical of the established conventions of period portraiture and in line with the severe fashion of the Spanish court under the reign of Charles II, which remained current until the 18th century. She is shown in three-quarter profile, her long braids tied with soft pink bows and decorated with quatrefoil flowers, likely made of silver. Her facial features are idealized and rendered with great subtly, particularly in the rosy cheeks.
While this portrait lacks the conventional coat of arms or cartouche that identifies the sitter, her high status is made clear by the wealth of jewels and luxury materials present in the painting. She is placed in an interior, set off against the red velvet curtain tied in the middle with a knot on her right, and the table covered with gold-trimmed red velvet cloth at the left. The sitter wears a four-tier pearl necklace with a knot in the center with matching three-tiered pearl bracelets and a cross-shaped earing with three increasingly large pearls. She also has several gold and silver rings on both hands—one holds a pair of silver gloves with red lining and the other is posed on a golden metal box, possibly a jewelry box. The materials of her costume are also of the highest quality, particularly the white lace trim of her wide neckline and circular cuffs.
The historical moment in which this painting was produced was particularly rich in commissions of this kind. Following his arrival in Cuzco from Spain in the early 1670’s, bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo actively promoted the emergence of a distinctive regional school of painting in the city. Additionally, with the increase of wealth and economic prosperity in the New World, portraits quickly became a way for the growing elite class to celebrate their place in society and to preserve their memory. Portraits like this one would have been prominently displayed in a family’s home, perhaps in a dynastic portrait gallery.
We are grateful to Professor Luis Eduardo Wuffarden for his assistance cataloguing this painting on the basis of high-resolution images. He has written that “the sober palette of the canvas, the quality of the pigments, the degree of aging, and the craquelure pattern on the painting layer confirm it to be an authentic and representative work of the Cuzco school of painting...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Job Cursed by His Wife
By Giovanni Battista Langetti
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Alfred (1883-1961) and Hermine Stiassni (1889-1962), Brno, Czech Republic, by 1925; thence London, 1938-1940; thence Los Angeles, 1940-1962; thence by descent to:
Susanne Stiassni Martin and Leonard Martin, San Francisco, until 2005; thence by descent to:
Private Collection, California
Exhibited:
Künstlerhaus, Brünn (Brno), 1925, as by Ribera.
“Art of Collecting,” Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, 23 November 2018 – 6 January 2019.
Literature:
Alte Meister...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roundel depicting St. Catherine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown French Art and Workshop, Middle 15th century
Roundel depicting St. Catherine (?)
Gouache, ink gold wash and gold burnishing on vellum
Book of Hours folio attributed to the C...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Gouache, Pigment
The Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum
Vedute dell' Arco di Costantino, e dell' Anfiteatro Flavio il Colosseo
From: "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views), part II
An early Paris edition,...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
The So-Called Tempio della Tosse, Near Tivoli. Interior Upright
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The So-Called Tempio della Tosse, Near Tivoli. Interior Upright (Veduta interna del Tempio della Tosse)
"Temple of the Cough"
Etching, 1764
Signed in the plate
From: Vedute di Roma...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching
A Dune Landscape with Figures Resting and a Couple on Horseback, a View of Nijme
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"A Dune Landscape with Figures Resting and a Couple on Horseback, a View of Nijmegen Cathedral Beyond" is a painting by Dutch Old Master painter Salomon van Ruysdael...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figures resting by a fire with a wagon in a wooded landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Benjamin Barker of Bath (Pontypool 1776-1838)
Figures resting by a fire with a wagon in a wooded landscape
Oil on canvas
28 x 35 7/8 in
71.1 x 91.2 cm
Benjamin Barker, the younger ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Still life of fruit and nuts
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Shaw (fl.1769-1784)
Still life of fruit and nuts
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size - 13 1/2 x 17 3/4 in
Framed Size - 16 1/4 x 20 1/2 in
Born in Sedgley in Staffordshire, it is unclea...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
The Nativity of Christ
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Anonymous 15th Century Italian, Probably Milan area
The Nativity of Christ
Pigments, ink and gold leaf on vellum
Unsigned as is always the case with illum...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Pigment
A Wolf
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
The Marchesi Strozzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Sale, Christie’s, London, May 20, 1993, lot 315, as by Carl Borromaus Andreas Ruthart...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Paper, Canvas, Oil
Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva.
A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Etching