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Old Masters Figurative Prints

OLD MASTERS

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

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

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

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Style: Old Masters
Ancient View of Pont Rouge in Saint Petersburg - Original Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Pont Rouge in Saint Petersburg is an original modern artwork realized in France in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Insc...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Das Troizker Sergiuskloster - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Das Troizker Sergiuskloster is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lowe...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Frame from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Frame from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good con...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient View of Caucasus - Original Etching - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Caucasus is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower m...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In ...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is anoriginal etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In v...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Roman Decoration - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Decoration from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good condition, except for some...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed is an original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters. In very good cond...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Capital Letter for Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - End of the 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital Letter from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed" is an original etching from the end of the 18th...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Capital Letter for Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - End of the 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital Letter from Ancient Rome, from the Series"Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed" is an original etching from the end of the 18th century. In very good condition, except for some...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Animal Figures - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, From the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters...
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Animal Figures - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is anoriginal etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters...
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Animal Figures - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching by Various Masters - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman bust, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching of the end of the 18th century, made by Various Masters.In very good condition, excep...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching by Various Masters - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman bust, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching of the end of the 18th century, made by Various Masters. In very good condition, exce...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Portrait of Man - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is a beautiful etching realized by an Anonymous artist active in the 18th century. Titled on the lower center "Giovanni Paisiello", wit...
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Early 1700s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Temple of Peace - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Temple of Peace is an original black and white etching realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Good conditions except for the trace of being fold at the middle. Sheet dimention:42 x 56 The...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Tuscan Proverbs - Etching by Carlo Lasinio - 1786
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Proverbs is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786. Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed p...
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1780s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Colonie d'Alger - Original Etching - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Colonie d'Alger is an original etching realized by an Anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. The state of preservation...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient View of Cannes - Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cannes is an original etching artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. Titled in France on the lo...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient View of Niort - Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Niort is an original etching artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. Titled in F...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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17th century etching black and white figurative character print expressive
By Jan Gillisz van Vliet
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Jan Gillisz van Vliet (1605–1668) was a Dutch Golden Age artist and student of Rembrandt. He worked with Rembrandt between 1628 and 1637, inspired by his master's work. Like Rembrandt, van Vliet made a series of beggar figures, though often with a greater degree of satire and expressiveness. For example, this image of a rat catcher...
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1630s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Novembre - Original Etching by Marcel Roux After J.F. Millet -Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Novembre is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized by Marcel Roux, an engraver and sculptor, after J.F. Millet (French Painter, 18...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ex Libris - Gediminui 650 - Vilniaus Viesoji Biblioteka - Etching - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Gediminui 650 - Vilniaus Viesoji Biblioteka is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized by Bruno Pozzo, in 1950s. Hand-signed on the lower right. ...
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1950s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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La Fuite - Original Etching by Marcel Roux after J.F. Millet - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
La Fuite is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized by Marcel Roux, a French engraver and sculptor, after J.F. Millet (French Pain...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ara con Tripode - Etching by V. Feoli After B. Nocchi - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 33.7 x 48.6 cm. “Ara con tripode” (Ara with tripod) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Vincenzo Feoli, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Vincenzo Feoli incise in Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXVIII" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. Original Title: Ara con Tripode di quindecemviri, e la corona...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Les Gemeaux Castor et Pollux - Etching by B. Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux. Wonderful plate with very fresh impression and an elegant line, from the v...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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17th century etching black and white mother and child figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mother & Child" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a mother and her child. Publisher: Pearce #51. 3" x 3" art 13 3/4" x 11 3/4" frame Cornelis Pietersz B...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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'Near Mrs. Teshmakers, Edmonton' original etching by John Thomas Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...
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1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Sleeping Nymph - Original Etching After Titian - Early 18th Century
By Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 14.5 x 20.4 cm Sleeping Nymph is a splendid original etching on cream-colored paper, realized by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, count of Caylus (1692-1765) in X...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Mexican Idols, Deities and Ministers - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Mexican Idols, Deities and Ministers is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, repre...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Funeral Honours and Burial of the Peruvian Leaders - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Honours and Burial of the Peruvian leaders is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the funera...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Transformations - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Transformations is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the "fifth an...
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Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 145 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Clau...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Egyptian Figure - Etching Hand Colored by L. Pizzi After A. Tofanelli
Located in Roma, IT
“Idolo Egizio” - Image Dim: cm 48 x 33, Dim: cm 59 x 44. Precious Etching on copper: Hand-colored subject on black ink bottom. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Luigi ...
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1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Virginia Kings Sepulchres - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Virginia Kings Sepulchres Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LVII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Beautiful Etching, H...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Japanese Funeral Procession - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Funeral Procession Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XLVIII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout...
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Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - by G. Pivati 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Way Peruvians light the Holy Fire during the Sun Party - Inca offering a liquor vase Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXVII Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37...
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Moscovian Christening - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Moscovian Christening Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXXIX Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Wonderful Etchings, Ha...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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View and Entrance of the Royal Mosque and the Imperial Market - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
View and Entrance of the Royal Mosque and the Imperial Market Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. V, Plate XXXV Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim:...
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Magnificent Chinese Pagoda - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Chinese Pagoda Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VII, Plate XXVI Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34 Wonderful etching, han...
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Cannonieri di Mare (Sea Gunner) - Lithograph Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except some stains in lower margin, slightly damaged in the right margin (three minor cracks) and normal brown paper ...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cacciatori di Orléans (Orléans Hunters - Carabinieri) - Lithograph Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned and damaged in the higher and lower margins. Interesting colored lithograph which describes t...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Al Conde Palatino - Origina Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Al Conde Palatino is an original etching realized by Francisco Goya and published in 1799. Original etching on wove paper. This beautiful Etching belongs to the Third Edition of th...
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1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

The Young Hostess
Located in New York, NY
Cornelis Bega (active 1631/32-64), The Young Hostess, c. 1660-64, etching. Reference: Hollstein, Bartsch 33, third state (of 5). With the address of J. Covens and C Mortier bottom left - before the address was removed (in the fourth state) and the artist’s signature was added (in the fifth state). In excellent condition, printed in black/grey ink on an old laid paper, with a 3/16 inch margin outside the plate mark all around, archival matting. Provenance: Ex collection Graff (with stamp verso, Lugt 1092a), LRV (with stamp verso, Lugt 1761), an unidentified collector’s stamp verso, and Dr. Karl Herveg (his stamp verso, Lugt 3974). A very good impression, with the guidelines of the address strongly visible. Dr. Karl Herweg was a noted collector of 17th Century Dutch prints...
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1660s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Guardie del Reale Palazzo
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned in the right lower margins, very little stain in lower margin. Interesting colored lithograph ...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Altra veduta del medesimo in prospettiva...
Located in Roma, IT
Title : Altra veduta del medesimo in prospettiva, fra una lampada e un piccolo vaso in bronzo Artist proof, with a good contrast and sharp details, printed on antique laid paper, lar...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

17th century etching black and white indoor dramatic figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Meeting" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a confrontation between two groups of figures. Publisher: Pearce #48. 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" art 10 1/4" x 10 3/8...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Two Trophies with a Breast Plate and a Ram's Head
Located in New York, NY
Enea Vico (1523-1567 engraving, Two Trophies With a Breast Plate and a Ram’s Head, 1550, Bartsch 447, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, before numbers. Goo...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

17th century etching black and white dramatic window figure scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Man Looking Through a Window" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a figure leaning through a window. Publisher: Pearce #37. 3 1/8" x 3" art 14 3/4" x 13 1/...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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17th century etching black and white figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Singer" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a performer and onlookers. Publisher: Pearce #50. 4" x 3" art 16 1/2" x 13 1/2" frame Cornelis Pietersz Be...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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La circoncision dans l'étable - Original Etching by Rembrandt - 1654
Located in Roma, IT
Rembrandt van Rijn (1696-1669), La circoncision dans l’étable, 1654 Etching on watermarked paper. Beautiful artist’s proof, signed and dated in plate higher-left : “Rembrandt 1654”...
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1650s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre, etchings, 1633, the complete set of 18. Lieure 1339-56, the frontispiece third state (of 3), th...
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1630s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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