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
The Fourth Oriental Head - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Fourth Oriental Head is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1635. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an e...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous in the 18th Century.
Signed ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Los Ensacados - Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Los Ensacados - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828).
The artwork is the plate n. 8 from ...
Category
1870s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Posing Man - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Man is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755.
Good conditions with foxing on the margins.
Signed in the plate.
The etching was realized for the anatomy study “JOMB...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Oraty in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
In a Gothic Church
Located in Roma, IT
In a Gothic Church is a beautiful original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Hand-signed "Stothard" in brown ink on the lower left margin outside of the image.
Very sweet drawing representing a woman praying...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja after Niccolò Vanni in the 18th century.
Signed on the...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Architectures - Etching Ferdinando Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Avanzi delle rovine della Villa... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi delle Rovine della casa del console Ventidio Basso, non molto lungi da Quintigliolo nella Valle verso Tramontana in Tivoli.
Image dimensions: 36x46 cm.
From the collection “L...
Category
1820s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Dog with Plants - Original China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1751
Located in Roma, IT
Dog with plants in the garden is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1751.
pen and watercolour on brown paper. In good codition except for some pencil marks and t...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sacred Scene - Original Etching after Pietro Testa - Early 18th Century
By Pietro Testa
Located in Roma, IT
Sacred Scene is an original etching on paper, realized by an anonymous artist after Pietro Testa in the early 18th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower righ...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
La Pompe Notre Dame
Located in Roma, IT
This original etching is titled and dated on plate. Monogram of the artist "MC" on higher right margin. Edition of 30 prints, 9 State. Very good conditions.
Charles Méryon was a Fre...
Category
1850s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Cornucopia of Cherries - Etching Ferancesco Cepparoli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cornucopia of Cherries from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condition...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene 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 with...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Study of Five Heads - Original Etching by J.-J. Boissieu
Located in Roma, IT
Study of Five 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).
Five study of heads of which two profiles (a female and a male) are lightly sketched with the drypoint technique, and we could appreciate the incredible draftsmanship. Instead, the bigger three portraits are very detailed and etched with a superb technique. Although the subjects are drawn in different scales and with different degrees of finish, each portrait has the dignity of a unique piece and the composition is very balanced.
In particular on the lower margin at the center there is the portrait of "Le Père Cotrot, Garçon Teinturier à Lyon'", an elderly man, toothless and with a large-nosed, slightly turned to left, with a hat and unbuttoned jacket over waistcoat, shows all his wrinkles in a very realistic way.
Signed on plate on lower right margin “De Boissieu”.
This old master’s original print with fresh 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 and light foxing along the margins, 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 Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Nadie Nos Ha Visto - Etching and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881-1886
Located in Roma, IT
Los Caprichos . Plate n.79, No One Has Seen Us.
Third Edition.
Goya derides the monks, showing them as “devotos de la bota”. These religious men have...
Category
1880s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Standing Men - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Men is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Funeral Ceremonies among the Mexicans and Venezuelans - by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Funeral Ceremonies among the Mexicans and Venezuelans is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This orig...
Category
1740s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Six’s Bridge - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Six’s Bridge is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1645. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an edition of...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Labyrinth - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Oratij in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Avanzi delle grandi Mura ciclopee... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1825
Located in Roma, IT
Avanzi delle grandi Mura Ciclopee da Vitruvio Opus Incertum, nella città di Cora
Image dimensions: 47x67 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” an artist's...
Category
1820s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Eurydice And Orpheus - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Eurydice And Orpheus from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding a...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Alexander Monro - Original Etching by Paton Thomson - 1793
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Alexander Monro is an original etching realized by P. Thomson in 1793.
Good condition, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout ( 49x34 cm).
The portrait represent Alex...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Cupids and Genii While Work - Etching by Roccus Pozzi - 18th Century
By Roccus Pozzi
Located in Roma, IT
Cupids and Genii While Work from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Roccus Pozzi in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some fo...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching By F. Cepparuli - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Francesco Cepparuli, Ancient Roman Fresco, original etching hand watercolored. Mid-18th Century. original etching from the end of the 18th century, realized by Francesco Cepparuli.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
In The Forest - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
In The Forest is an etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is realized through short and deft strokes, a...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Ancient Still Life 9 - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding and foxi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Pompeian Fresco - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with slight folding.
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
The Farmers - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Farmers is an etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is realized throu...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Baths of Titus - Etching by G. Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Bath of Titus is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Vasi in the late 18th century.
Etching, 33 x 45 cm.
"Vasi and Piranesi dis.e inc" in the lower left part.
Good conditions!
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone,1710 - Rome, 1782) was an engraver, architect, and landscape artist. Between 1746 and 1761, Vasi published 10 volumes with 240 engravings of the monuments of Rome...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Oil Lamp - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Lamp is an Etching realized by Various Artists (18th century).
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Erc...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Hunters by Inn-Door - Original Ink and Watercolor by Dirk Maas (attr.)
By Dirk Maas
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful watercolor by Dirk Maas, a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Provenance: R. Edereimer Print Cabinet, New York (label overleaf).
Good conditio...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Smoker Leaning on the Back of a Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685)
Title: Smoker Leaning on the Back of a Chair
Year: 1672
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Image size: 4.1 x 3.55 inches
Signature: Si...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Good condition.
In the lower and middle part there is the inscription "is the si...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Original Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Elia Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Egyptian Deities And Exotic Animals - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian Deities And Exotic Animals from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Various Authors in the 18th Century.
Good condi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Four Engravings from 'Emblemi di Achille Bocchi" - Etching -1555
Located in Roma, IT
Four engravings from 'Emblemi di Achille Bocchi', realized in 1555, are original Engravings.
Dimension: 17 x 12,5 cm each.
Four sheets from Achillis Bo...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Human Heads - Original Etching by Various Masters - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Human Heads from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good con...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre (Peasant turned left holding her hands)
Etching, 1618
From: Varie Figure (16 plates)
Condition: very good, aging
Im...
Category
1610s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Accurata e succinta descrizione topografia delle Antichità di Roma
Located in Roma, IT
Complete title: Accurata e succinta descrizione topografia delle Antichità di Roma dell'Abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese Presidente all'Antichità Romane e Membro Onorario della Regia...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Pompeian Style Oil Lamps - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Style Oil Lamps from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Various Authors in the 18th Century.
Monogrammed on the p...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
The White Arab - Etching by Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The White Arab is an etching on ivory-colored paper realized after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1630. This specimen belongs to a late edition of the 19th century.
Good conditions ...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Sheet of Studies - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sheet of Studies with the Head of the Artist is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905)after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Hastings Castle oil painting seascape 19th century, William Edward Webb
Located in York, GB
Hastings Castle from the beach oil William Edward Webb
A fine 19th century oil on canvas painting depicting Hastings Castle from the beach with fishermen and boats
housed in a git ...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
A Peasant Calling Out - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Peasant Calling Out: "tis vinnich kout" (It's biting cold) is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This w...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
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Engraving
A Man Making Water - engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Man Making Water is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late ed...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Seascape With Monument and Figures - Etching by Niccolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape With Monument 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 Art
Materials
Etching
Animal Figures for Antiquities - Original Etching - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the mid-18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some stains al...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Man in Blue Coat Carrying Goods - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This portrait of a man in Blue Coat carrying goods in the work of the japanese artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), otherwise known as Toyokuni III.
Whether through the use of color...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Woodcut
Letter of the Alphabet I - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet I, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions.
The etching belon...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Architectural Roman Map - Etching by Vincenzo Scarpati - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural Roman Map from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Scarpati in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Go...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Y se le quema la casa - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
Located in Roma, IT
Y se le quema la casa is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Etching on paper.
The etching is part of the Third Edit...
Category
1860s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ancient Roman Statue - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th century.
Signed on plate on the lower le...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Excuela española (XVIII) - Virgen con niño - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco bastante actual
El estado de la obra es aceptable, solo comentar que la ...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Letter L - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter L is an etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli artist of 18th century.
Good condtions.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original ti...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Roman Temple And Villa Fresco - Etching by Francesco Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Temple And Villa Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Francesco Casanova in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
Th...
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18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions ex...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
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