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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 Roman Statue - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century. Signed on the plate on the lowe...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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St. Simon from Les Grands Apôtres Debout Original 17th Century Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
St. Simon from "Les Grands Apôtres Debout, Représentant Le Sauveur, La Bienheureuse Marie et Les Saints Apôtres" Original 17th Century Etching by Jacques Callot. This portrait of St. Simon depicts him standing in a street, holding a book and leaning on a saw. The saw is typical of St. Simon's depictions as he was said to have been martyred by being sawed in half. Very good impression of this print, with bold lines and high contrast. This leaflet contains the words "Callot fec." in the bottom right, shorthand for the Latin fecit, meaning Callot made this. This edition contains no publishers mark or numbering on the piece, indicating that it is from the first printing state. Jacques Callot was born in the Duchy of Lorraine around 1592 to an important family in the court. He started an apprenticeship as a goldsmith at the age of 15, but later began learning etching. He is known for his technical skill in etching and for developing the echoppe style etching needle. Callot's etchings featured religious figures as well as soldiers, common people, beggars, and court individuals. His series "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War," published while Lorraine was invaded during the Thirty Years War, later influenced Goya's "Los Desastres de la Guerra...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ink, Laid Paper, Etching

Casino della Villa Patrizi Fuori - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Casino della Villa Patrizi Fuori di Via Pia is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Goo...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Still Life 5 - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Guerra in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and aged with some folding...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching by Carlo Oratij - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Ortij in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions ex...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Decorations - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Decorations from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is a etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditio...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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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...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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In Honour of the Sun God - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. In honour of the Sun God is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Portrait of Julius Caesar - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Julius Caesar is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827). Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Know...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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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...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Vaso antico di marmo, che si conosceva nella Galleria del Palazzo
Located in Roma, IT
Artist's proof, printed on antique laid paper, large margins, representing an “antique marble vase in the gallery of the palazzo Barberini” as he r...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Veduta in Prospettiva d'un Antico Vaso Cinerario di Marmo
Located in Roma, IT
The same urn, in perspective Beautiful artist proof, printed on antique laid paper, large margins, showing a precious urn. Etching with good contrasts and sharp details, signed on pl...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Academy of Plato Plato and His Disciples
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Academy of Plato Plato and His Disciples Etching and drypoint c. 1662, printed c. 1710 Signed in the plate lower left Inscribed lower left: 'In villa ab Academo attributa sua[m]...
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1660s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Letter E - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter E is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Bohemians
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), The Bohemians, the set of four etchings touched with burin, 1621. Reference: Lieure 374 (second state of four); Lieure 375-77 (second state of two). In ve...
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1620s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Four original etchings of women from 'Aula Veneris' series by Wenceslaus Hollar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Presented here as a group are four original etchings of women in European national dress from the master printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar's series "Aula V...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching, Paper

Tree, Exhibiting the Various Congregations of the Benedictine Order /// Hollar
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sir William Dugdale (English, 1605-1686) Title: "Tree, Exhibiting the Various Congregations of the Benedictine Order" Portfolio: Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbie...
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1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

'Portrait of Henrico van der Borcht, ' original W. Hollar engraving after Holbei
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this print, Wenceslaus Hollar presents a portrait of D. Henrico van der Borcht, copying a painting or drawing by Hans Holbein. Copying works of famous masters was a common task of...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix, Etching by Amand-Durand after Albrecht Durer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Amand-Durand, French (1831 - 1905) after Albrecht Dürer, German (1471 - 1528) Title: Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix Year: 1873 Medium: Heliogravure on wove paper ...
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1870s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Wura (Sweet Mother) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Chhild
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Linen, Ink, Linocut

Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter R - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet R, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Flora with her Nymphs, after Giulio Romano
Located in New York, NY
GIULIO BONASONE (1510-1576) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA1499-1546) Flora with her Nymphs engraving, circa1531-50, on laid paper, watermark Two crossed Arro...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Head of Camel - Etching by Stefano Della Bella - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias' Family is an etching by Rembrandt Camel head is an etching by Stefano Della Bella executed in 17th century. Monogrammed “SDB fec.” Plate 8,1x8,5...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Plank Bridge – Landschap met een bruggetje van planken
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin cream laid paper with a partial "M" or "W" watermark, 5 x 5 15/16 inches (126 x 150 mm), thread margins. Inscribed in the plate in the upper-right: “Antoni Waterlo fe...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Axiom - Etching by Francesco Mazzoni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Axiom is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Mazzoni in the 18th century. Signed on the plate. Included a Passepartout: 45 x 30.5 cm Francesco Mazzoni ( 1738-1989). ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Landscape with Monuments and Figures - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Various Artists (18th century). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Seascape With Monuments and Figures - Etching by Niccolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Niccolò Vanni (1750-1770). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching by Carlo Oratij - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Ortij 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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Ancient Roman Frescoes - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresces from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen 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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Cave Rue de l'Enfer - Original Etching by Augustin André Lançon - 1871
Located in Roma, IT
Cave Rue de l'Enfer is an original Etching realized by Augustin André Lançon in 1871. Rare etching belonging to the suite "Guerre de 1870 et Siège de Paris". Very good Conditions. ...
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1870s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Drawing, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditio...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Smoker and the Drinker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685) Title: The Smoker and the Drinker Year: 1650 Medium: Etching Paper: Laid paper Image (plate mark) size...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV
By Andrea Mantegna
Located in Middletown, NY
Andreani, Andrea (Italian, about 1558–1610), after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431-1506) Chiaroscuro woodcut in colors printed from four blocks on laid paper in dark brown, grey, and...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut

The Great Gentleman's Ride - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. The Great Gentleman's Ride is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing an...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Il tempio del Sole
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on hand made cream laid paper, 2 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (72 x158 mm), 1/4 inch margins. In very good condition with minor edge wear. Adhered with adhesive along the left top shee...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

ÀGÙNBÁNIRÒ - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Women, Linocut
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Linocut

Reconstruction of the citadel, or acropolis, of Athens
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with hand coloring on H & I Honig watermarked laid paper, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (191 x 262 mm); sheet 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (235 x 332 mm), full margins. In good condition ...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Ink, Handmade Paper

The Mother Seated in an Inn
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with an indiscernible horizontal watermark, 6 1/8 x 4 11/16 inches (154 x 120 mm). Thread margins. The first state (of two), before the additional work on...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

The Smoker at the Window by David Deuchar, after Ostade
Located in Middletown, NY
Deuchar, David (after van Ostade). The Smoker at the Window. Edinburgh: 1800. Etching on cream laid paper, 4 1/2 x 4 inches (119 x 100 mm), thread margins. Left top corner expertly r...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Oriental and his wife - Etching after Albrecht Durer - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
This etching is a reverse copy after Dürer's original (ca. 1495-1496), executed in 18th century. Dürer's monogram at the bottom centre. Provenance: Aglietti Gallery, 1969 Passepar...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Saint Jerome by Amand-Durand after Albrecht Durer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Albrecht Dürer, After by Amand Durand, German (1471 - 1528) Title: Saint Jerome Year: 1873 Medium: Heliogravure Size: 9 x 7.25 in. (22.86 x 18.42 ...
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1870s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Old Master Print Heads of Two Apostles after Raphael
Located in Rochester, NY
Early 19th century print on laid paper. Two apostles after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino). Good color. Some subtle wrinkles to the paper. Framed. 
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Paper

Iwoye (Perception 2) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Africa Linocut
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Linocut

"Four Women in National Costumes, " Etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Four Women in National Costumes" is a set of four original etchings by Wenceslaus Von Prachna Hollar. 3 5/8" x 2 3/8" each print 19 1/8" x 18 1/2" frame Wenceslaus Von Prachna Ho...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Gerard Dou's Portrait of Himself
By Gerard Dou (Leiden 1613 - 1675)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid Arches paper, 6 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches (166 x 129 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower center margin. A very good impression. Titled, dated, and inscribed in...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Ceremonies of a Floridian King - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Ceremonies of a Floridian King is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representi...
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1740s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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One People - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, People, Linocut
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...
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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Linocut

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...
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1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Etching by Giambattista Tiepolo - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
This etching on laid paper is the 13th plate of the series of 27 entitled Idee pittoresche sopra la fugga in Egitto di Giesù, Maria e Gioseppe executed by Giambattista Tiepolo and pu...
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1780s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Le Moulin du Télégraphe (Nouvelles d'Espagne) - Lithograph by H. Daumier - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 31.5 x 25 cm. Published on: La Caricature, October 16, 1834 Not Signed. It includes passepartout. Good conditions except some mowings.
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1830s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left -Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to...
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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

The Pump House, Notre Dame, Paris
Located in Storrs, CT
La Pompe Notre Dame. (The Pumphouse, Notre Dame). Schneiderman catalog 26.x. 1861. Etching. Image 6 3/4 x 10. Edition of 30 in this state. Series: Eaux-Fortes sur Paris . Initial...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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The Last Supper, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), trimmed at the platemark. A fine impression with a Coat of Arms watermark. Second state, after the addition of the Frederick de Witt...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Laid Paper

Anatomy Studies after Guido Reni - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Studies after Guido Reni is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions with slight foxing. Signed in the plate. The etching was realized for the anato...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Christ Crowned with Thorns, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream wove paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), narrow to thread margins. First state (of 2). A fine impression with archival paper adhered at left top and bottom cor...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Peasant Family on the Tramp – after Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches (118 x 89 mm), thread margins. Laid down to a medium weight laid support, scattered nicks and corner wear. The top and bottom corner...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Diana Goddess - Ancient Roman Art - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Diana Goddess - Ancient Roman Art, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Anonymous Artist in the 18th...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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A Chinese Nobleman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

The Basilica of St. Paul in Rome, Early 19th Century Etching by Luigi Rossini
Located in Alamo, CA
"Rovina della gran Basilica di S. Paolo fueri le mura accaduta" (View of the Ruins of the Great Triumphal Arch of S. Paolo Fuori le Mura) from "Le Antichita Romane" (Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1823. It depicts the destruction of the Basilica of St. Paul after the fire of 1823. People stand in the road and on the right observing the damage amid debris, which includes many fragments of columns. The etching is presented in a silver-color wood frame with an off-white double mat with a black inner mat. There are a few small spots, but it is otherwise in very good condition. See item # LU117324669722 for another Rossini etching...
Category

1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Study of Six Heads - Etching by J.-J. Boissieu
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Six Heads is a beautiful black and white etching with drypoint interventions on paper, realized at the end of XVIII century by the French artist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon, 1736- 1810). Six study od heads ( four elder men, a middle-aged man at the center, and a woman with turbant) etched with a superb technique and an incredible draftsmanship are drawn to different scales and with different degrees of finish, have the dignity of six different portraits with the same passion and effort. Signed on plate on lower right margin “De Boissieu”. Inscription ( number plate) on higher-right corner "10". This old master’s original print with lifetime impressions, is in very good conditions, except for a usual yellowing of the paper above all on the edges and some signs of the time,do not affect the image. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon,1736 –1810) Jean-Jacques de Boissieu was a French artist studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon, but he was mostly self-taught. His first prints were realized between 1758–64. When he went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador and Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, he had the lifechanging encounter: he met Voltaire and he entered in the world of luminaries, he had the opportunity of realizing some plates for the Diderot-d’Alembert’s Encyclopèdie. Then he continued to produce prints in Lyon, Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside, as well as the French countryside around Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching...
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

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