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
Porte-Enseigne (Sign Holder) /// Old Masters Antique Etching Figurative Soldier
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Léopold Flameng (French, 1831-1911)
Title: "Porte-Enseigne (Sign Holder)"
Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts
Year: 1866
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: approx. 1,500
Printer: Alfred Salmon, Paris, France
Publisher: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Reference: Sanchez/Seydoux 1866-19
Sheet size: 10.63" x 7.13"
Image size: 7.75" x 5.75"
Condition: Light toning to sheet. Some surface marks and small areas of discoloration. In good condition
Notes:
This etching is after a painting by French artist Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902). Printed in sanguine. Partial unidentified watermark right center edge.
This etching was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years - one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002.
Biography:
Léopold Flameng (22 November 1831, Brussels – 5 September 1911, Courgent) was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. He was born of French parents. His first artistic studies were with Luigi Calamatta and Jean Gigoux. His skill as engraver was noticed by Charles Blanc and his collaboration in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts with fellow engraver Léon Gaucherel helped ensure the publication's reputation. He eventually provided one hundred illustrations. He was a medallist at the Exposition Universelle (1878) and was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1898 .
Known for his etchings of works by Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Ingres and Delacroix, he illustrated several books on Paris and numerous literary works of classical and contemporary authors, including Boccaccio, Paul Scarron, Victor Hugo and François Coppée. He had numerous students, including his son, François Flameng...
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1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Intaglio, Etching, Laid Paper
Genesis - Old Testament Story - Etching by Sisto Badalocchio - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis -Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Sisto Badalocchio.
About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca.
Passpartout incl...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Pompeian Life Style - Etching by Luigi Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Life Style from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condit...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Venus and Vulcan at the Forge
Located in New York, NY
GIORGIO GHISI (1520-1582) AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (1501-1547)
Venus and Vulcan at the Forge
engraving, mid-1550s, on laid paper, proprietary watermark P. PRICARD in a Shield with Flowe...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet A from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
View of Cascals - Etching by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg -Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Cascals (Portugal, ancient name: Cascais) is an original etching realized by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg as part of the popular "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", a city Atlas publish...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Liber Veritatis - Plate 189 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Campidoglio - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1764
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Capitol”
Image dimensions: 41.8x57 cm.
Beautiful Artist's Proof, representing the apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Caccia de’ Tori - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
English Title: "Bull Hunting Palace"
Beautiful Artist’s Proof, representing the second apparatus for firework built by the “Cav. Pa. Posi Ar.”, engraved by “Ca. Gi. Vasi” (engraver)...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
Etching
Veduta degl’Avanzi del cortile di Villa Mecenate in Tivoli - by Rossini - 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta degl’Avanzi del Cortile di Villa mecenate in Tivoli. Costruito di Opera incerta di piccoli pezzi di travertino.
Image dimensions: 47x60 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità d...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Tempio degli Stoici... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Tempio degli Stoici ove erano i sette Filosofi della Grecia in Villa Adriana
Image dimensions. 34x51 cm.
Tempio degli Stoici ove erano i Sette Filosofi ...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
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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Etching
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, ca. 1500
Located in New York, NY
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – Nuremberg – 1528), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne ca. 1500, engraving; 115 x 71 mm (4 ½ x 2 13/16 inches), B...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Defile a Pied (Parade on Foot)
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), Le Defile a Pied (Parade on Foot), etching, 1627, from the Combat a la Barriere (Combat at the Barriere). Lieure 583, probably first state of 2. In very g...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Holy Family with Two Musical Angels"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper bearing the “Large Bear” watermark (Meder 89, typically seen in the earliest impressions of this woodcut).
Dated in the block ...
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Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
The Virgin and Child in the Clouds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper.
Signed and dated in the plate in the shadows lower center Rembrandt f. / 1641.
An excellent, sharp and clear ...
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Etching
Madonna and Child with the Monkey
Located in San Francisco, CA
A good, clear later 16th century Meder “l” impression, showing strong contrasts throughout, printed after the appearance of the dot in the clouds upper center.
Catalog: Bartsch 42;...
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Engraving
The Death of the Virgin
Located in San Francisco, CA
A strong, dark 18th century impression of Bartsch's third and final state. Similar to that found in an impression of the same state in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar...
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
Old Masters figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.
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