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.
Find a collection of Old Masters prints, paintings, drawings and watercolors and other art on 1stDibs.
52
to
177
2,021
180
70
1,776
956
939
304
1,644
477
49
17
12
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
13,059
7,459
2,815
2,211
2,182
828
820
585
388
359
301
111
94
28
1,468
725
593
440
384
320
264
237
161
129
124
122
105
99
85
79
57
57
56
53
1,821
366
17
6
1
1
1
10
1,633
113
96
89
68
54
1,969
182
72
65
49
Style: Old Masters
Vienna, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - Etching - Old Master
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Vienna", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 15 x 47, Dim: cm 20 x 53.
Wonderful B/W Aquatint r...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nobil'Edifizio a diporto in Luogo di Delizia - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1776
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Noble Pleasant Building"
Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework designed and built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (1776) by Giuseppe Pal...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Para es Habeis Nacido - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Para es Habeis Nacido is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810.
Original Etching on paper.
The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres...
Category
1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Holy Council - Original Color Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
The Holy Council - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.IX, Plate XLIII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; She...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lunar Costumes - 20th Century - Gaetano Dura - Lithograph - Old Masters
By Gaetano Dura
Located in Roma, IT
Lunar Costumes is an original lithograph by Gaetano Dura.
Titled on the lower center. Signed printed on lower left. Published by Lithography Gatti e Dura, Naples (printed on lower r...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Lo Mismo en Otras Partes - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Lo Mismo en otras partes is an original artwork realizedb by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810.
Original Etching on paper.
The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres de...
Category
1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Combat de Bellerophon contre la Chimere, from "Le Temple des Muses"
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Bellerophon fighting the Chimoera.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression and sharp details, from the volume “Le Temple de...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Œnée, from "Le Temple des Muses" by B. Picart
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Œnée, "the king of Calydon, having neglected Diana in a sacrifice, is punished for his impiety" as the capture reports.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of Talapini - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Ceremony of the king and a monastery of "Talapini"
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XXIX
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim:...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Funeral Procession - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Procession Accompanying of a Mandarin in China.
Etching, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate XXXIX
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Turkish Carnival - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Turkish Carnival
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom. , Plate XVI
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Etching, Hand-watercoloured, show...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sacrifices Among the Natives - Original Color Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Sacrifices among the natives - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VII, Plate XIV
Image Dim: cm 25....
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Great Burmese Feast: Sapan Giache - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
The Great Burmese Feast: Sapan Giache
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII, Plate XXVIII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Very Fi...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Avanzi di una Sala Termane... - Original Etching by L. Rossini - 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi di una Sala Termale nella Villa d'Orazio a Tivoli, sotto il convento di S. Antonio
Image dimensions: 43.5 x 52 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Divinities of Campeche, Idols of Tabasco - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Divinities of Campeche, Idols of Tabasco
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LXXI
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Two E...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ceremonies in the Hudson Bay - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Joy in the Hudson Bay as they take a Difonto into a hut – Manner of accompanying him to the hut.
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Vol. VIII, Plate LIII
Image...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Offers to the Sun God among the Incas - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Offers to the Sun God among the Incas
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII , Plate LXXVI
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Very fi...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Palamonis et Pachomii - Etching After Raphael Sadeler - 1660 ca.
By Raphael Sadeler the Elder
Located in Roma, IT
Palamonis et Pachomii is a beautiful hand-watercolor etching realized by the Flemish artist Raphael Sadeler (Anvers, Antwerpen 1560 - Munich between 1628 and 1632), after a drawing b...
Category
1660s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Testa Quasi Colossale di Marco Aurelio - Etching by P. Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
“Testa quasi colossale di Marco Aurelio” (Almost colossal head of Marco Aurelio) is a beautiful black and white burin on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837), after Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1754 - Venice, 1831), as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Teodoro Matteini delineò./ Pietro Fontana incise a bollino Roma”.
This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXV" 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.
This old master’s original prints shows a precious piece of the Borghese's collection, the marble bust of the Roman philosopher and writer and one of the "good Roman Emperor" (according to Edward Gibbon) Marco Aurelio, represented in neoclassical style and with the traditional iconography with a thick hair and a long beard.
In excellent conditions with a usual yellowing of the paper on the lower margin and some light signs of the time with an imperceptible weaving of the paper on the lower right corner, this wonderful burin preserved his fresh impression.
Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani
This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved.
The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi.
The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David).
«Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate.
Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano,1762 – Rome, 1837)
The Italian artist and engraver, Pietro Fontana was active in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Wedding and Divorce among the Canadians - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding and Divorce among the Canadians
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII , Plate LII
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x 23.8; Passepartout Dim: cm 49 x 34
Very fine Etching, Hand-watercoloured, showing the nuptial ceremony and the divorse among the Canadian indigenouses...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Honor to the Fire Deity - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Honor to the Fire Deity among the indigenouses of the Virginia, back from the war
Etchings, Hand-Watercoloured. Tom.VIII , Plate LVI
Image Dim: cm 25.5 x 18; Sheet Dim: cm 37.5 x...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Funeral Procession among the Indigenouses - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Procession among the indigenouses - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane
Etchings, Hand-Water...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Combat d'Hercule, from "Temple des Muses" - Original Etching by B. Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the fight of Hercules against Hydra.
Beautiful plate with very fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, publi...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)
By (After) Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Chicago, IL
Les Plaisirs du Bal (before 1st State), 1730
The Pleasures of the Ball
Pure etching only by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (born Paris 1698)
495 x 640 mm.; 19 3/8 x 25 1/8 inches
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
![Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_3653/1523031811466/Watteau_after_The_Pleasures_of_the_Ball_master.jpg?width=240 "les plaisirs clothing")
Urias - Original Etching by Crispijin van de Passe - Early 1600
By Crispijn van de Passe
Located in Roma, IT
Urias is an original artwork realized by Crispijn van de Passe in the first half of the XVII Century.
Original burin after an original by Martin de Vox chez Sadeler. Passepartout i...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Principi Etruriae Duci - Etching by Charles Simonneau - Late 1600
By Charles Simonneau
Located in Roma, IT
Principi Etruriae Duci is an original artwork realized by the French artist Charles Simonneau in the second half of the XVII Century.
Original Etching on paper. D'aprés Charles Le B...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Il tempio di Nettuno - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1760
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "The Temple of Neptune”
Image dimensions: 38.3x53.2 cm.
Very Fine Proof, showing an architectural apparatus for firework built by Paolo Posi in occasion of the Chinea Feast in 1760.
Signed on plate lower-right margin. Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture.
In Good condition, with a light abrasion higher-left corner and some little foxing in margins.
Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p. 137, n. 69
Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Avanzi delle grandi Mura ciclopee... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi delle grandi Mura Ciclopee da Vitruvio Opus Incertum, nella città di Cora
Image dimensions: 47x67 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an artist's...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State)
Located in Chicago, IL
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State), 1654
Etching
266 x 113 mm.; 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Watermark:
Fleur-de-lys in a Crowned Shield
References:
Godefroy 44 III/VI
Hollstein 44 III/VI
Pelletier, Adrian van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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 ...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Clytie, from "Le Temple des Muses"
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Clytia, changed into a sunflower.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Déluge, from "Temple des Muses" - Original Etching by Bernard Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Deluge.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, published in Amsterdam in 1742 by Z...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Anatomie d'Un Reve, " Original Color Lithograph signed by Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Anatomie d'Un Reve" is an original color lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, IX/CXXX, in the lower left. This...
Category
1970s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Passengers - Original Etching by A. M. de Ghuy - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
The Passenger is an original artwork realized by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy in 1775.
Original etching on paper. Titled on the lower margin at the center. The artwork is glued on ca...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tal Para Qual - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Tal para Qual is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Original etching on paper.
The plate is part of the Thi...
Category
1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Amore Scherza - Original Etching by G. B. da Ravenna after Bernardino Nocchi
Located in Roma, IT
“Amore che scherzo, Statua” (Joking Eros, Statue) is a wonderful black and white etching on paper, realized by the artist Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Gio Brunetti da Ravenna inc. Roma 1795”.
This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher right corner “Tav. XXIX” 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.
This old master’s original prints representing a precious piece of the Borghese collection, an Eros statue caressing a sparrow, is in excellent conditions with some light signs of the time (some little whormholes on the left margin beyond the marginal line of the matrix) but with fresh impression.
Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani
This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were found and made available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved.
The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi.
The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Campidoglio Festivamente Ornato - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Capitol Festively Decorated"
Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cav. e Arch.” Paolo Posi, drown by “Giuse. Palazzi”, engraved by “Cava. Giusep. Vasi”. This wonderful Etching represents the Capitol festively decorated in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1775). Signed on plate lower margin.
Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture. In Very Good condition.
Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p.155, n. 97.
Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Offering a Flower - Original Lithograph by J. B. V. Loutrel - Mid 19th Century
By Jean Bactiste Victor Loutrel
Located in Roma, IT
Offering a Flower is a beautiful black and white lithograph by the French artist Jean Bactiste Victor Loutrel (1821-1908). Signed on plate on lower right margin "V. Loutrel", and pr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Encelade, from "Temple des Muses" - Original Etching by Bernard Picart - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Encelade, burried under the Mount Ethna.
Beautiful plate with fresh impression, from the volume “Le Temple ...
Category
1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chiesa di Sant'Athanagio e Collegio della Natione de Greci - by G.B. Falda
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa di Sant'Athanagio e Collegio della Natione de' Greci is a wonderful black and white etching on cream-colored paper realized in the second half of the XVII century by Giovanni Battista Falda.
Signed on plate on the lower left margin "Giò Batta Falda dis. et fece".
Title etched on plate at the center, with a urbanistic caption and a dedication to "Gio. Iacomo Rossi" on plate on the right corner of the lower margin.
In excellent conditions, except for the wavy paper. An ivory-colored cardboard passepartout is included (34 x 49 cm).
A beautiful urban landscape of Rome with full blacks and precise lines, to admire a disappeared view of the eternal city.
Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia, 1643 - Rome, 1678) was an Italian engraver, who documented architectures and urban planning in Rome in the second half of the seventeenth century. Born in the province of Vercelli, he soon showed a passion for drawing. He was thus placed in the workshop of a local painter, and then, at the age of 14, sent to Rome to stay at his uncle's, who spoke about him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He also studied with Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi. From De Rossi, the adolescent...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Magnifico Arco con il Simulacro di Ercole Tebano - by Giuseppe Vasi - 1767
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Magnificent Arc with the Ercole Tebano’s Simulacrum”
Image dimensions: 39.9x54.6 cm.
Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cavaliere Pa...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La celebre impresa di Ercole negl'Esperidi - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1774
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "The Famous Ercole’s undertaking in “Esperidi”
Beautiful Artist's Proof, representing the first complex apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Pe...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Sacrifice - Original Etching by F. Cecchini After A. Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Sagrifizio Trionfale” is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Francesco Cecchini (1790-1820), after Agostino Tofanelli (Lucca 177...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Villa antica con scena di Giostra - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1774
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Antique Villa with a Scene of Joust "
Beautiful Proof, showing the second complex apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th J...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The couple
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685)
Title: The Couple
Year : 1638
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Image (plate mark): 3.25 x 2.5 inches
...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Altra Veduta del Tempio della Sibilla... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Altra Veduta del Tempio di Sibilla in Tivoli
Image dimensions: 46x65 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma”(..), Rome, 1826 by L. Rossini, an artist's proof with...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Piazza di Palestrina costruita sulle rovine del famoso Tempio della Fortuna...
Located in Roma, IT
Full Title: Piazza di Palestrina costruita sulle rovine del famoso Tempio della Fortuna Prenestina
Image dimensions: 41 x 52 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di R...
Category
1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Veduta del Porto di Ripa Grande - View of the Port of Ripa Grande - 1753
Located in Roma, IT
G. B. Piranesi, Veduta del Porto di Ripa Grande (View of the port of Ripa Grande)
Etching, Burin and Drypoint on fine watermarked paper (with lily watermarked). Signed on plate lower-right: “G.B. Piranesi Architetto fec.”.
2nd State/ VI (Hind 27)
Image Dim: cm 38.2 x 61.5, Dim: 53.3 x 77.3.
Good conditions, with some normal fold of paper at the center
From one of the most important series of etchings by G.B. Piranesi, ”Views of Rome drawn and etched by Giambattista Piranesi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Singers
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
De Humana Physiognomonia
Located in Roma, IT
De Humana Physiognomonia - Libri IIII
Original Title: Io: Bap-tistae Portae Neapolitani. De Hum. Physiognomonia. Libri IIII. Ad Aloysium Card. Estensem
Vici Aequensis, Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1586. Vol. In-4° / cm. 32x22
272 pp (typographic mystake for page 265 indicated as 272 an vice-versa)
Circulation: Rare First Edition
Format: In-4°
Pages: 272
Cover on ancient parchment, with title in ink (ancient calligraphy) on spine and “archivistic” decorations in leather and rope on same spine. Binding restored using original contemporary cover.
Frontispiece fully engraved with portrait of author within an imaginary composition; portrait of Cardinale d’Este, whom the work is dedicated to, follows with full page engraving.
Includes 85 engravings 4 of which full page, showing human physiognomies compared to animals’ in order to demonstrate the relationship between physical aspects and moral features.
Good and clean copy, in a nice state. Black stain on p. 97 and minor tear on p. 198. Some whitening on 3-4 pages which do no affect reading.
Rare first edition of a pillar of modern anthropology, and one of the most popular essays of Italian Renaissance, with important influence during the following 300 years.
First book to be printed in Vico Equense...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Paper
Old Masters figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters figurative prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of yellow, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Charles Amand Durand, Giuseppe Vasi, Vincenzo Campana, and Carlo Nolli. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Engraving and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Old Masters figurative prints, so small editions measuring 1.58 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $66 and tops out at $350,000, while the average work sells for $308.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
St Joseph Bronze
Tea Sets For Children
Van Gogh Museum Poster
Vintage Hand Saw Tools
Vintage I Want You Poster
Vintage Rivoli
Vintage Robot
Vintage Vogue Poster Prints
Viollet Le Duc
Weisbuch Claude
Yves Saint Lithograph
1930s Woodblock
1984 Olympic Poster
Alain Saint
Art Nouveau Jewelry Chest
Aviary Vintage
Black Dress Flames
Book Link Chain