Old Masters Sculptures
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
Large White Marble Head of Alexander the Great Rome 17th century Sculpture
Located in Pistoia, IT
Bellissima e imponente testa neoclassica in marmo di Alessandro Magno, Italia, Roma, XVII secolo.
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), who enjoys great posterity throughout history, ...
Category
1660s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Neoclassical sculpture in Rome- Pair of 19th century Italian scagliola - Figures
Located in Varmo, IT
Pair of scagliola sculptures - Roman figures. Italy, 19th century.
51 x 26 x h 118 cm (left) - 41 x 28 x h 118 cm (right).
Entirely in scagliola.
Condition report: In good general...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Italian master - 18th century figure sculpture - Virgin Pity - Carved Wood Paint
Located in Varmo, IT
Carved and painted wooden sculpture - Pietà - Italy, 18th century.
13 x 7 x h 22.5 cm.
Entirely made of carved and polychrome painted wood.
Condition report: Good state of conserv...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Late 15th-century Old Master Burgundian Netherlands carved walnut figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful late 15th-century Burgundian Netherlandish portrait of a woman. Carved walnut. Original polychrome has been removed with traces at base and lower portions of figure. Minor ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Antique Sculpture Female Moor Venice 19th Century Gold Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antique sculpture of a female Moor with flowering cornucopia
Venice, 19th century
Carved, lacquered and gilded/silvered wood
Total height 202 cm (column base 82 cm, figure 120 cm)
...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Wooden Sculptures Roman Soldiers Rome 18th Century Italy Art Gold
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Wooden sculptures depicting a pair of full-length Roman soldiers
Rome, 18th century
Carved and gilded wood (walnut?)
Dimensions: Maximum height (at lance) 62 cm./ Maximum width: 28 ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Pair Bas-reliefs Spring Autumn Flemish Sculptor 17th Century Wood
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antichità Castelbarco SRLS is proud to present:
Flemish sculptor of the 17th century
Pair of bas-relief panels depicting the Allegory of Spring and the Allegory of Autumn
Oak wood
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Late 15th Century By Florentine School Madonna with Child Bas-relief
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Late 15th Century Florentine School
Madonna with Child Bas-relief
Pietra serena (a blue-gray sandstone) 85.5 x 60.5 cm
Provenance:
- via Stefano Bardini purchased in 1896 by
Prince ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Pair Sculptures Winged Angels Wood Tuscany 17/18th Century Old master Gold Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pair of sculptures depicting two winged angels in carved wood
Tuscany, late 17th century
Carved, gilded and polychrome wood
Dimensions: Height 64 cm - ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Saint Barbara France 16/17th Century Sculpture Wood Religious Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
High relief panel depicting 'Saint Barbara'
Southern France, 16th-17th century
Polychrome carved wood with traces of gilding
64 x 32 cm.
(good condition, with minor missing and cra...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Wood Panel
Yasmina
Located in New York, NY
As with all of Williams sculptures, this gypsum based terracotta life size sculpted bust was made directly from life over the course of multiple sittings. Using the sight-size method, William is able to create an incredible likeness while imbuing his work with his own individual style. Made in Florence Italy, this artwork will add liveliness, classical character, and quality to any interior.
While this is the only terracotta version of its kind, William may produce bronze or plaster copies.
*Note on shipping, William will...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Vanitas Vanitatum
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Signature: Hand-signed by artist
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, me...
Category
Early 2000s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Erotic Sexual Mythological Marble Figural, Nude woman, Bacchante and Satyr Herm
Located in Miami, FL
Bacchic revelry. A sexy and nude curvaceous young Nymph/Bacchante makes amorous advances to a Herm - whose facial expression reflects her erotic touch. The Herm is stylized where his...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Eighteenth-century Grand Tour marble bust of Faustina the Younger
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated: ‘F. Harwood Fecit 1764’
Collections:
Probably commissioned by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827);
Probably by descent at Gordon Castle, Banffshire to c.1948;
Possibly acquired by Bert Crowther of Syon Lodge, Middlesex;
Jacques Hollander (1940-2004);
Christie’s, 5 December 2013, lot 101;
Private collection;
Sotheby’s, 2 July 2019, lot 106
Literature:
John Preston Neale, Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales and Scotland, London, 1822, vol.I, unpaginated.
This marble copy of an ancient bust in the Musei Capitolini usually identified as Faustina the Younger, the daughter of Antoninus Pius and future wife of Marcus Aurelius, was made in Florence by Francis Harwood in 1764. Harwood was one of the most prolific suppliers of decorative marbles for the Grand Tour market and this finely worked example demonstrates the quality of luxury goods available to travellers to Italy. So often anonymous, this unusually signed and dated example, raises questions about the status of marble copies in the period and of sculptors such as Harwood who are known principally for ornamental work.
Harwood’s origins remain obscure. He is documented living in Palazzo Zuccari with Joshua Reynolds and the Irish sculptor Simon Vierpyl at Easter 1752, he had certainly settled permanently in Florence by the following year, when he is recorded working with Joseph Wilton. He was admitted to the Florentine Academy on 12 January 1755 (as pittore Inglese, although he was described as scultore in the matriculation account). After Wilson returned to England in 1755 Harwood appears to have worked in a studio near SS. Annunziata with Giovanni Battista Piamontini who had made life-size copies of The Wrestlers and The Listening Slave for Joseph Leeson in 1754. In 1758 both sculptors were contracted to make a statue and a trophy to complete the decoration of the Porta San Gallo, Harwood completing a statue of Equality, installed the following year.
By 1760 Harwood was on the brink of his most productive period as a sculptor, producing copies of celebrated antiquities for the ever-increasing audience of Grand Tour travellers and for the domestic market in London. In 1761 Harwood met the young architect James Adam who was in Italy specifically to make contact with suppliers for Robert Adam’s burgeoning practice back in Britain. The Adams offered a remarkably cohesive design package to their clients, encompassing not just architecture, but fixtures, fittings and furniture as well. Harwood was able to supply the brothers with marbles for their new interiors. At Syon, for example, Harwood produced a full-size copy of Michelangelo’s Bacchus for the new dining room the Adams had designed for Hugh Smythson, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
Harwood seems to have also specialised in producing sets of library busts. In 1758 Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, a distinguished traveller commissioned a set of busts which remain in situ at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Adam brothers were producing designs for new interiors at Castle Ashby at this date. The set included representations of: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina the Younger, Sappho, Seneca and Homer. Each of these busts Harwood seems to have replicated for multiple patrons, another Adam patron, Thomas Dundas...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Laocoön and his Sons, an exceptional bronze sculpture by Giacomo Zoffoli
Located in PARIS, FR
This exceptional bronze group (unpublished), executed in Rome in the second half of the 18th century, bears witness to the fascination with the Laocoön since its discovery on January...
Category
1770s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude Male Runner Bronze patinated Classical After the Antique
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully proportioned and handsome nude male bronze with Roman classically refined features after the Antique . It looks best with a key lighting th...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair Carved Gilded Mirrors Gold Wood Venice 18th Century Italy Quality Baroque
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pair of carved and gilded mirror cabinets 'in the manner of Sansovino'
Venetian (or Tuscan) carver active in the 18th century
Carved and gilded wood
Total frame measurements: 86 x 6...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Cuzco School Baptismal Dish
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Manuel Ortíz de Zevallos y García, Peru; and by descent in the family to:
Private Collection, New York.
This impressive baptismal dish is an example of eighteenth-cent...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Fabergè follower - 19th-20th century Russian Semi-precious stone sculpture
Located in Varmo, IT
Table sculpture in semi-precious stones (follower of Fabergé) - Seated elderly man. Russia, 19th-20th century.
7.5 x 8 x h 13.5 cm the sculpture, 14 x...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
Terracotta Sculpture Bust - Giorgi
Located in New York, NY
Giorgi...
Made directly from life and on the scale of life. Sculpted in water based clay, then kiln fire finished in red terracotta. This bust will add true character and art to any...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Clay
Classical Torso (Female)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Classical female torso, polished walnut.
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Walnut, Wood
17th Century Flemish Sculpture of a Religious Figure
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique carving of a saint or martyr. 17th century Flemish hardwood carving. Wonderful wear and rich color.
Category
17th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Classic French Patinaed Bronze Sculpture - Giorgi
Located in New York, NY
Made directly from life and on the scale of life. Originally sculpted in water based clay, kiln fire finished in red terracotta, then recreated in bronze. This sculpted bust will add...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fabergè follower - 19th-20th century Russian Semi-precious stone sculpture
Located in Varmo, IT
Table sculpture in semi-precious stones (follower of Fabergé) - Boy with Samovar. Russia, 19th-20th century.
The sculpture is 6 x 6 x h 15 cm, the box...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
NINSEI NONOMURA, Polychrome ceramic and gold leaf paperweight Kyo-Yak, 1646
Located in Torino, IT
NINSEI NONOMURA, active in the second part of the 17th century
Kyo-Yaki ceramic paperweight, Paperweight Kyo-Yaki, 1646.
Polychrome pottery with ball and gold leaf decoration, impr...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Notes from a Love Song (Pedestal)
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
Matt Smith (British)
Notes from a Love Song (Pedestal), 2022
Black Parian
22 x 11 x 11 cm
8 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Parian is a fine, unglazed porcelain resembling marble. It is an ...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Notes from a Love Song (Cannon)
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
Matt Smith
Notes from a Love Song (Cannon), 2022
Black Parian
24 x 17 x 11 cm
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Parian is a fine, unglazed porcelain resembling marble. It is an unstable mat...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
After Soldani Benzi (looking left)
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
Matt Smith
After Soldani Benzi (looking left), 2022
Black Parian, found spelter figure
16 x 30 x 13 cm
6 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Parian is a fine, unglazed porcelain resembling ma...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Spoils, 2021, White Soils with Earthenware with Freshwater Pearls
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
White Earthenware with Freshwater Pearls
55 x 36 x 17 cm
21 5/8 x 14 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.
UK-born Matt Smith is well known for his site-specific work in museums, galleries and historic h...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021, Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021
Black Parian, Found Ceramic, Freshwater Pearls
29 x 14 x 14 cm
11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
(MS206)
£ 4,000.00
UK-born Matt Smit...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Ceramic
The Piper
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
Matt Smith
The Piper, 2022
Black Parian, found porcelain
35 x 18 x 10 cm
13 3/4 x 7 1/4 x 4 in.
Parian is a fine, unglazed porcelain resembling marble. It is an unstable material, ...
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Joey (Spout with pearls)
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH
Joey (Spout with pearls), 2021
Black Parian, Freshwater pearls
20 x 12 x 7 cm
7 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.
(MS211)
Category
2010s Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Precious Stone
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Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Matt Smith, Larry Scaturro, and Spanish Colonial (Peruvian). Frequently made by artists working with Wood, and Metal 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 sculptures, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures 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 $777 and tops out at $49,552, while the average work sells for $6,455.