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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
Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck
Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck

Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck

By François Nicolas Martinet

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800) Title: "Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw)" (1008) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed...

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1770s Old Masters Art

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Jan Cornelis Sylvius
Jan Cornelis Sylvius

Jan Cornelis Sylvius

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Middletown, NY

Heliogravure on cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (164 x 138 mm), thread margins. Uniform toning on the recto, and scattered light foxing and various notations in purple ink and...

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19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Trajan’s Column View Rome Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper
Trajan’s Column View Rome Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper

Trajan’s Column View Rome Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

This charming gouache on paper painting, from the early 19th century, presents a detailed view of Trajan’s Column in Rome, a historically significant landmark dating back to ancient ...

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Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

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Gouache

Iwoye (Perception 2) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Africa Linocut
Iwoye (Perception 2) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Africa Linocut

Iwoye (Perception 2) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Africa Linocut

By Tosin Oyeniyi

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 Art

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Canvas, Linocut

This or That (Ona Kan O Woja) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Linocut
This or That (Ona Kan O Woja) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Linocut

This or That (Ona Kan O Woja) - 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative, Linocut

By Tosin Oyeniyi

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 Art

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Canvas, Linocut

Wooden Landscape with Shepherds, Fountain and Flock - by Jan Frans van Bloemen
Wooden Landscape with Shepherds, Fountain and Flock - by Jan Frans van Bloemen

Wooden Landscape with Shepherds, Fountain and Flock - by Jan Frans van Bloemen

By Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizzonte)

Located in Roma, IT

Bibliography: A.Busiri Vici, Jan Frans Van Bloemen Orizzonte e l’origine del paesaggio romano settecentesco, Ugo Bozzi Editore, Roma 1974, n.41 This artwork is shipped from Italy. U...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Canvas, Oil

Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting Madonna & Child Carved Wood Scrolled Frame
Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting Madonna & Child Carved Wood Scrolled Frame

Fine 19th Century French Oil Painting Madonna & Child Carved Wood Scrolled Frame

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Madonna & Child French School, 19th century presented in carved wood scrolled frame oil on canvas, framed frame: 27 x 20 inches canvas: 15.5 x 13 inches provenance: private colle...

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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Original AJANTA INDIA  Bodhisattva Padmapani vintage travel poster  1959
Original AJANTA INDIA  Bodhisattva Padmapani vintage travel poster  1959

Original AJANTA INDIA Bodhisattva Padmapani vintage travel poster 1959

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Ajanta India vintage travel poster from 1959. Archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame. Note that a later edition of this poster was printed but the im...

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1950s Old Masters Art

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Lithograph

17th century European oil, Christ and his disciples seated around a table.
17th century European oil, Christ and his disciples seated around a table.

17th century European oil, Christ and his disciples seated around a table.

Located in Woodbury, CT

17th century European oil, Christ and is disciples seated around a table. An interesting and very unique painting. Possibly a fragment originally from a piece of furniture. The s...

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1650s Old Masters Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

Answer Within, Oil on Canvas Painting, Old Masters Style, 21st Century
Answer Within, Oil on Canvas Painting, Old Masters Style, 21st Century

Answer Within, Oil on Canvas Painting, Old Masters Style, 21st Century

By Emmanuel Ojebola

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)

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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles
Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles

Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles

By Ludolf Ludwig Businck

Located in Middletown, NY

Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed through raking light. Trimmed at or near the margin. Archivally sound small repaired corner tear, upper right, with a very minor (1/4 inch) vertical edge split in the center top margin, above the figure's head. All condition issues are consistent with age, and present an exceptionally good example of this truly remarkable work. With the collector's stamp of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, last King of Poland (1797-1854), Dresden, on the right corner, recto (Lugt 971). This work likely appeared in a well-known posthumous sale of Friedrich August II's private collection, which was handled by C.G. Boerner, and took place in Leipzig, on May 7-9, 1928, presumably this print was presented as lot 1551. [Stechow 16] Ludolph Busïnck was born at Hann, Germany around 1590. By about 1620 he was actively working as a printmaker in Paris, collaborating with publisher and celebrated cartographer Melchoir Tavernier. Busïnck may have studied printmaking in the Netherlands, evidenced by the influence of Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius we see in the bold woodcuts he produced in France. Busïnck was the first printmaker to create chiaroscuro woodcuts in France, a technique originated by German artist Hans Burgkmair...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Art

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Woodcut

Portrait of Marquard Freher, aged forty-nine

Portrait of Marquard Freher, aged forty-nine

By Aegidius Sadeler

Located in Middletown, NY

Engraving on hand made laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (210 x 148 mm), thread margins. An approximately 1-inch vertical repaired tear extends into the image area at the top center ...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Art

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving

Study of an architectural devotional with a Sacred Heart and three Putti

Study of an architectural devotional with a Sacred Heart and three Putti

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on light cream laid paper, 8 x 5 1/2 inches (200 x 138 mm), 1/8-inch margins. Minor repairs, including expertly repaired lower right corner, and minor light in-painting at l...

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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Tower, Original Watercolor Painting, Ready to Hang, Framed
Tower, Original Watercolor Painting, Ready to Hang, Framed

Tower, Original Watercolor Painting, Ready to Hang, Framed

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: August Töpfer Work: Original Watercolor painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Watercolor on Satin Paper Year: 1834-1911 Style: Classic Art Title: Tower, Size: 12...

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1890s Old Masters Art

Materials

Watercolor, Satin Paper

VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna
VEDUTA DI CHIAIA, Antonio Cardon - Stampa su carta con cornice, moderna

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...

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1970s Old Masters Art

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Color

French school late 18th Century, Portrait of a young man, oil on metal
French school late 18th Century, Portrait of a young man, oil on metal

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...

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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

Duck - Colored lithograph on paper 1950s
Duck - Colored lithograph on paper 1950s

Duck - Colored lithograph on paper 1950s

Located in Napoli, IT

Colored silkscreen print on paper with mahogany wood frame

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1950s Old Masters Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Etching, 16th Century, Old Masters Style

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Etching, 16th Century, Old Masters Style

By Nicolas Beatrizet

Located in Roma, IT

Black and white etching and drypoint on wire rod paper, representing the myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia. On the altar is inscribed "Iphigenia" in capital letters. On the lower left margin is inscribed "N. Beatrizet Lo Taringus F.", slightly discolored (Beatrizet usually signed his plates with the letters "N. B. L. F."). At the center of the lower margin is inscribed "Romae, Michaelis Tramezini formis cum privilegio summi Pont. M.D.L.III". After a drawing attributed to either Michelangelo Buonarroti, Salviati, or Baccio Bandinelli...

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16th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

The Pig Killers, by David Deuchar after Ostade
The Pig Killers, by David Deuchar after Ostade

The Pig Killers, by David Deuchar after Ostade

By Adriaen van Ostade

Located in Middletown, NY

Deuchar, David (after van Ostade). Les paysans tuant un porc. Edinburgh: c1800. Etching on thin cream laid paper, 4 11/16 x 4 11/16 inches (117 x 117 mm), narrow margins. Horizontal edge tear extending approximately 1-inch into the image area at the center left sheet edge. Skinning at the bottom-center sheet edge, verso, and adhesive residue at the top two corners, verso. Etched by David Deuchar after van Ostade, from A Collection of Etchings After the Most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Cornelius Bega and Van Vliet, Edinburgh: 22 December, 1803. "The pig killers is one of van Ostade’s most striking, both for its circular format and unusual lighting. Pictorial representations of pig slaughtering were known in medieval book illumination where they were incorporated into depictions of activities relating to the month of November or December. In this intimate, nocturnal scene, illuminated by torchlight, van Ostade combines coarse, barnyard realism with tender observation as a peasant family gathers round to witness the slaughter of a pig, which presumably will feed the large family during the long winter months. As the eldest son kneels on the animal, the farmer’s wife collects the blood in her long handled pan...

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19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer
La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer

La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer

By Albrecht Dürer

Located in Long Island City, NY

Albrecht Durer, After by Amand Durand, German (1471 - 1528) - La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x ...

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Late 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Supplicium sceleri Fraenum - Etching by Jacques Callot - 1624/34
Supplicium sceleri Fraenum - Etching by Jacques Callot - 1624/34

Supplicium sceleri Fraenum - Etching by Jacques Callot - 1624/34

By Jacques Callot

Located in Roma, IT

Supplicium sceleri Fraenum (Les Supplices) is an original Etching realized by Jacques Callot in 1624/34. Lettered with name of etcher (bottom right), title and four columns of French verses: 'Voy, lecteur, comme la Justice... Des effectz de la forfaicture'. Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (40x60 cm). Jacques Callot (1592 – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print...

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1660s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Peasant with a Crooked Back

Peasant with a Crooked Back

By Adriaen van Ostade

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on on laid paper, adhered along left sheet edge to archival wove paper. A rich inking impression in very good condition. From the Picart Edition of 1710. - Ex-collection Fer...

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Late 17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Study for Assumption of the Virgin

Study for Assumption of the Virgin

Located in Middletown, NY

Graphite on hand made, fibrous wove paper, finished with gray wash. Unevenly trimmed sheet edges, non-archival tape remnants at all four corners, recto, well outside of image area. Horseshoe-shaped area of light discoloration that extends significantly into the figure's face, beneath the lips, and up over the rear of the head, dog-eared right lower corner with associated light discoloration at crease. DeMin and Belluno inscribed in graphite, verso. A detailed study showing 'primo pensiero' for Giovanni DeMin's large scale fresco, Assumption of the Virgin...

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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Graphite

Study of a Head

Study of a Head

By Wenceslaus Hollar

Located in Middletown, NY

By Wenceslaus Hollar, after Jan Van Bylert (Biler) Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/16 x 2 3/4 inches (87 x 70 mm), thread margins. Lacking the inscription in the plate; "Felix Bil...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Venetian School: Neoclassical banquet scene with angels and putti.

Venetian School: Neoclassical banquet scene with angels and putti.

Located in Middletown, NY

Brownish black ink on dark cream, handmade, laid paper, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (208 x 260 mm). Uniform age tone with several scattered, unobtrusive spots of brown discoloration, consistent with age. Right top corner loss, evenly trimmed, paper tape remnants at top left corner, recto. Collector's stamp in blue ink ("PRB"), lower left corner, recto. On the verso is a neoclassical graphite and brown ink study of a procession showing a woman being carried in a birthing sedan chair. The woman is being carried backwards, with putti, and horn players, leading her up an embankment, across a river. In her wake we see a crowned man...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper

La Chaumiere Entouree de Planchees, Old Masters Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn

La Chaumiere Entouree de Planchees, Old Masters Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - La Chaumiere Entouree de Planchees (B232), Year: 1878 (of original 1648), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 5 x 6...

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Late 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Virgen Dolorosa
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Virgen Dolorosa

Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - Virgen Dolorosa

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

La obra no va firmada, es de augtor anónimo Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura El estado de conservación de la pintura dse puede ver, presenta faltas y precisará restauración Med...

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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Oil

The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio
The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio

The Lady in the Park, Oil on Canvas Signed Arnaldo De Lisio

Located in Napoli, IT

Oil painting on canvas, framed in a rich gilt frame decorated with acanthus leaf motifs. The work depicts an elegantly dressed female figure, portrayed in profile in a lush formal ga...

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1910s Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Persia & Afghanistan: A Framed Hand-colored 17th Century Map by John Cary
Persia & Afghanistan: A Framed Hand-colored 17th Century Map by John Cary

Persia & Afghanistan: A Framed Hand-colored 17th Century Map by John Cary

By John Cary

Located in Alamo, CA

This colorful and detailed early 18th century copperplate map by John Cary entitled "A New Map of Persia from the Latest Authorities" was published in London in 1801. It depicts Persia, the region of modern day Afghanistan, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Aral, the Persian Gulf...

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Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Engraving

Mid 19th Century "Susanna And The Elders" After The Old Master by Martinelli
Mid 19th Century "Susanna And The Elders" After The Old Master by Martinelli

Mid 19th Century "Susanna And The Elders" After The Old Master by Martinelli

Located in San Francisco, CA

Outstanding Mid 19th century old master "Susanna and the Elders" after Martinelli Brilliant old master painting of Susanna and the Elders. Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 26.5" ...

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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art

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Canvas, Oil

Microscopic Studies - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771

Microscopic Studies - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771

Located in Roma, IT

Plate from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière. Tome XI – Plate III, p. 142. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1771. Engraving (etching and burin), approx. 24.5 × 19.5 cm....

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1770s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

FINE 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL ON CANVAS - THE BATHING OF BATHSHEBA
FINE 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL ON CANVAS - THE BATHING OF BATHSHEBA

FINE 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL ON CANVAS - THE BATHING OF BATHSHEBA

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: Italian School, 17th century Title: The Bathing of Bathsheba Medium: oil painting, on canvas Size: frame: 23 x 19 inches, canvas: 18 x 14 inches Provenanc...

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17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters art 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. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Charles Amand Durand, Giuseppe Vasi, Thomas Holloway, and Vincenzo Campana. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Paint 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $11 and tops out at $1,495,000, while the average work sells for $546.