Old Masters Art
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
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Deposition Atala De Roussy-trioson Paint Oil on canvas 19/20th Century French
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The deposition of Atala
Follower of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis, 1767 - Paris, 1824)
19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
47 x 65 cm. - Framed 67 x 84 cm
The propos...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art
Materials
Woodcut
Vedutist Venetian painter - 19th century Venice view painting - Oil on panel
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (late 19th century) - Venice, view of the Riva degli Schiavoni with carnival masks.
30 x 40 cm without frame, 46 x 53 cm with frame.
Oil on panel, in a carved and ...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 60cm x 42cm, (74cm x 60cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Italian Vanitas painter - 19th century figure painting - Memento Mori
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (19th century) - Memento Mori.
43 x 67 cm without frame, 48.5 x 72.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a wooden frame.
Condition report: Original can...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Baroque Italian Sculptor - 17th century carved wood sculpture - God father
Located in Varmo, IT
Carved wooden sculpture - God the Father blessing - Italy, 17th century
81 x h 35 x 13 cm.
Entirely in carved wood.
Condition report: Good state of conservation of the sculptural ...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Wood
Trompe l’oeil French painter - 19th century Still life painting - Assignat money
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th-19th century) - Trompe l'oeil.
61 x 48 cm without frame, 69.5 x 56.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on panel, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Good sta...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Baroque Italian painter - Set of four 18th century figure paintings - Evangelist
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (early 18th century) - Four Evangelists.
25.5 x 19 cm without frame, 29 x 22.5 cm with frame.
Ancient oil painting on panel. in wooden frames.
Condition report: In...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th or 19th Century Follower of Rubens. Judith and the Head of Holofernes. Oil
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Late 18th or Early 19th Century Continental follower of Peter Paul Rubens.
Flemish ( b.1577 - d.1640 ).
Judith and the Head of Holofernes.
Oil on Canvas.
Image size 31.1 inches x 23...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English School 18th Century Old Master Portrait Dated 1767 Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
English School 18th Century Old Master Portrait Dated 1767.
An intriguing painting dating to the mid 18th century bearing a label verso which is indistinct, but appears to read,
“Mr...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Raimondo di Montecuccoli in armor with a marshal's staff. Circa 1660
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of Raimondo di Montecuccoli in armor with a marshal's staff. Dutch School.
Oil on canvas
Dutch School.
Circle of Peter Nason (Amsterdam, 1612 - 1690 The Hague).
Portrait ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Ponte Milvio in Rome
Located in Roma, RM
Northern painter active in Rome in the second half of the 17th century, View of Ponte Milvio
Oil painting on canvas 73 x 97 cm in coeval Roman Salvator Rosa frame.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance of the Cupids, Antique print with carved wooden frame
Located in Napoli, IT
Antique color print depicting the dance of cupids with carved wooden frame.
The extraordinarily refined and highly decorative painting depicts an 18th-century allegory.
Centrally and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
Romantic Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Lutist - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Romantic painter (19th century) - The Lutist.
72 x 57 cm without frame, 85.5 x 69.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: Orig...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Florentine Renaissance embroidered panel for a dalmatic garment, circa 1440-14
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A Florentine Renaissance embroidered panel for a dalmatic garment, circa 1440-1460
Comprising twelve sections, the top row with three Evangelists, each holding a gospel; the next row...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art
Materials
Other Medium
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 Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
Italian master - 18th century figure sculpture - Virgin Pity - Carved Wood Paint
Located in Varmo, IT
Carved and painted wooden sculpture - Pietà - Italy, 18th century.
20 x 10 x h 19 cm.
Entirely made of carved and polychrome painted wood.
Condition report: Good state of conserva...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) The Prophecy of Simeon Large Antique Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Italian
Title: The Prophecy of Simeon
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
Painting: 21.5 ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Pair of Exceptional Italian 18th Century Still-Life Paintings
Located in Rome, IT
This pair of excellent Italian still life oil on canvas with flowers and fruit with classical ruins on the background and colored drapes create harmony of the composition. Notable ...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Oil Portrait of a Victorian Lady, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted in the 19th century, this exquisite miniature portrait wonderfully exemplifies realism in traditional oil painting. The small artwork is painted in the conventional portraiture style of the Old Masters, and achieves soft realism with fine brushwork and a subdued, neutral palette. The half length portrait depicts a fine Victorian woman dressed in all black with a delicate lace collar and bonnet. She wears a ruby broach...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Florals in classic urn Old Masters 17th century Dutch style
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Floral with Urn is in a classical Dutch style that dates to the 17th century. The bright flowers drape the urn in whites, crimsons and pinks, standing out against the darker foliage...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Dutch painter - Pair of 19th century figure paintings - Interior Tavern
Located in Varmo, IT
Dutch painter (19th century) – Interior of a tavern with smokers.
21 x 18 cm without frames, 31 x 28 cm with frames.
Pair of antique oil paintings on canvas, in black lacquered woo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Follower of Wouwerman Dutch School c1800 Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
Follower of Wouwerman Dutch School c1800
A delightful landscape painted on an oak panel, unsigned and dating from around 1800. The artist has deftly set the mood by placing his trav...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
French School, 17th Century, 'Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres', oil canvas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
French school, 17th Century
Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres
Oil on canvas
26.1/4 x 21.5/8 in. (66.7 x 54.8 cm.)
In a gilded composite frame, later production (possible early 1...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Art
Materials
Plaster
NEAPOLIS, Friedrich Bernhard Werner - Framed print on paper, modern
Located in Napoli, IT
Print on paper prized antique print "View of Naples" by Friedrich Bernhard Werner.
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Black and White
Huge 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Still Life Fruit in Basket
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Still Life of Fruit in Basket with other objects
Italian artist, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24.5 x 33 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
British Animal painter - 18th century horses painting - Oil on panel figure
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (18th century) - Horses at the river.
53 x 70 cm without frame, 67 x 86 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition...
Category
1770s Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Large Floral Still Lifes in the Old Master Style
Located in London, GB
Pair of large floral still lifes in the Old Master style
Continental, Early 20th Century
Canvas: Height 120cm, width 90cm
Frame: Height 141cm, width 111cm, depth 6cm
This pair of b...
Category
Early 20th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Wood, Canvas
French school late 18th Century, Portrait of a young man, oil on metal
Located in Paris, FR
French school late 18th Century
Portrait of a young man
oil on metal
10.2 x 7.7 cm
Framed under glass : 24.4 x 21.8 cm
This small portrait painting, quite original in its technique...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
17th Century French School, Saint John the Baptist, oil on copper
Located in Paris, FR
17th Century French School
Saint John the Baptist in a landscape
oil on copper
17 x 11.5 cm
In good condition except very small loss of painting in the lower left part
In a modern f...
Category
1680s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
VEDUTA DI PONTE NUOVO, Antonio Cardon - Print on paper with frame, modern
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the words...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the inscr...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the inscr...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the inscr...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
Jesus with the ball of the world and the saints
Located in MADRID, ES
Peruvian 18 century
Spanish colonial
Category
1720s Old Masters Art
Materials
Copper
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the inscr...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the inscr...
Category
1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Color
Young Girl after Sir Thomas Lawrence, Regency portrait painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Charming work in the Regency style, mid 19th Century after Sir Thomas Lawrence. High quality painting. Old Christie's Stencil to verso. Would grace any home, suitable for contempor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coastal See Landscape Antoniani Paint 18th Century Old master Oil on canvas Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Antoniani (Milan 1700/1710 - Turin 1775) workshop
Fantasy coastal view with boats and figures
Oil on canvas
56 x 138 cm. - framed 71 x 153 cm.
Excellent condition
This f...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Baroque Dutch painter - Late 18th century figure painting - Inn Interior - Oil o
Located in Varmo, IT
Dutch painter (18th-19th century) - The spanking.
60 x 99 cm without frame, 67 x 106 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, without frame.
Condition report: Wooden support s...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
17th Century Portrait of Jesuit Priest
Located in San Antonio, TX
Portrait depicting a Jesuit Priest, Possibly St Ignatius, from a collector of medieval and gothic art. This portrait's estimated date is between 1580 and 1...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
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 Art
Materials
Precious Stone
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 Art
Materials
Precious Stone
Antique Italian painter - 18th-19th century figure painting - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Bolognese painter (18th-19th century) - Maddalena.
70 x 50 cm without frame, 89 x 69 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana Boullogne Mythological Paint Oil on canvas old master 17/18th Century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Bon Boullogne (Paris, 1649 - Paris, 1717) workshop of
Episodes from the myth of Diana
oil painting on canvas
Dimensions: 84 x 114 cm.
with antique frame 100 x 132 cm.
The beautiful painting proposed shows a series of episodes taken from the myth of the divinity Diana, the Roman divinity of hunting, forests and wild animals, masterfully captured in this valuable painting, which shows a luxuriant wood, a favorite place of the divinity, as a theater of his adventures.
The composition opens, on the left, with a sort of presentation of the divinity, portrayed as an attractive young girl, surrounded by her faithful Nymphs, one of whom holds her quiver with arrows, and by one of her beloved dogs. hunting her.
The 'story' continues in the central part where we can see the divinity during a wild boar hunt...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
A German Pointer with hunting Equipment
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
German School (18th century)
A German Pointer with hunting Equipment
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 42 x 35 in
Framed Size 48 x 41 in
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
Located in Napoli, IT
Stampa su carta pregiata di un stampa antica "Veduta di Chiaia dalla parte di Levante" di Antonio Cardon
. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Logo del Giglio e un pennello con la scritta "Color...
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1970s Old Masters Art
Materials
Black and White
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th century
Provenance:
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)
Phillip Duechnes Bookseller, New York, c. 1948
References And Exhibitions:
Otto F. Ege Box Folio 27
Ege describes these folios as: Epistolary (Epistolarium), Italy, Middle 15th century
Latin Text: Rotunda or Round Gothic Script, square rhetorical neumes
Sister folio are in the following rare book libraries:
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Public Library
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland Public Library
Denison University
Kent State University
Kenyon College...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Portrait of Scottish Gentleman with Clay Pipe - 18th century art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This atmospheric 18th century portrait oil painting is attributed to a Scottish artist. Painted circa 1750, The painting is a half length portrait of a seated gentleman. He is wearing a blue bonnet, the badge of a Scottish country gentleman and smoking a clay pipe. The way the light catches his hand and face and gleams on his buttons is lovely. The frame is super in that it echoes the button on his jacket. This is an excellent example of an 18th century Scottish portrait...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Ferruginous Duck - Colored lithograph on paper 1950s
Located in Napoli, IT
Colored silkscreen print on paper with mahogany wood frame
Category
1950s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th Century
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Russian Artist
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th century
Unsigned
Illuminated in red, yellow blue and green pigments and gold leaf on paper
An Illuminated manuscript folio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Pigment
Duck - Colored lithograph on paper 1950s
Located in Napoli, IT
Colored silkscreen print on paper with mahogany wood frame
Category
1950s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
c. 1900 Catholic Painting of Madonna and Child Enthroned
Located in Larchmont, NY
Madonna and Child Enthroned, c. 1900
Oil/tempera on canvas
42 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.
Framed: 45 3/8 x 23 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas
Antique Italian painter - 19th century large figure painting - Virgin child
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (19th century) - Madonna and Child.
100 x 100 cm without frame, 121.5 x 121.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
C...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Follower of Pietro da Cortona- 18th-19th century painting - Venus Aeneas - Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Pietro da Cortona (18th-19th century) - Venus appears to Aeneas as a huntress.
50 x 60 cm without frame, 80.5 x 90 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a c...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Saint crucifix
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Saint with crucifix.
65 x 50 cm without frame, 78 x 64 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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