Old Masters Art

"Fluviorum in Europa principis Danubii" is a hand-colored map of the region about the Danube river created by Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) in his 'Atlas Novus Terrarum', publish...

Tuscan Proverbs is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786. Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed p...

Character is an etching realized by a Flemish artist of 17th century. The little picture is in good conditions except for lack of paper on the edges and left corner. Small inscript...

Tuscan Proverbs 3 is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786. Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed...

Ancient View of Sultan Selims Moschee in Costantinople is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Black and W...

Landscape is a beautiful drawing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen. In good condition; only a smallspots at the edges of the drawing an...

Grimace is a beautiful brown and black China ink drawing and watercolor on wire rod paper, made by an anonymous artist of the late 18th century. A precious old master's original dra...

William John Huggins (1781-1845) A Ship in Two Positions Off Dover oil on canvas Unsigned 33 x 45 inches, inc. frame William John Huggins, of wh...

Abraham van CUYLENBROCH (1620-1658) Diana With Her Attendants in a Grotto 1651 signed oil on panel 12.2 in x 15.7 inches, inc. frame; 31 x 40 cm Provenance: Sale of Sotheby's Lo...

Costume of Cajazzo is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Hand-signed, on the bottom right. Titled on the lower center. Good conditions, exce...

Venice is an original artwork realized in 1950s. Original woodcut on ivory paper; reissue of a hand-printed woodcut, 1950s. Good conditions. Image Dimensions: 18 x 19 cm.

Rider is an original Hand-colored lithograph on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Titled on the lower center. Signed on the plate on the lower left. Includ...

View of Oran is an original Hand-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1846 by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Titled in Italian on the lower center "Oran". The state of...

Battle is an original Hand-colored lithograph on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Included two impressive images in one sheet. Titled in Italian on the low...

Colonie d'Alger is an original etching realized by an Anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. The state of preservation...

Landing of the French in Africa is an original hand-colored lithograph on paper realized in 1846 by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Titled on the lower center "I Francesi S...

Cannes is an original etching artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. Titled in France on the lo...

Ancient View of Niort is an original etching artwork realized by an anonymous engraver of the 19th Century. Printed in series of "France Pittoresque" at the top center. Titled in F...

Circle of Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863) The Capture of the Smalah of Abd el Kader oil on canvas 48 x 55 1/2 in; 121 x 141 cms (including magnificent contemporary carved frame) Provenance Private collection, United States This important and impressive work records the historic skirmish in 1843 between a cavalry unit lead by the duc de Aumale and the Arab chief Abd el Kader during the French military campaign in Algeria. The painting is attributed to Horace Vernet, and relates closely to a major work of the same subject by Vernet now in the Musée de l'Histoire de France in Versailles. The work is a classic example of French Orientalist painting...

Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1745 ca. In good condition, excpet for some foxing on the right. The artwork r...

Drink Seller (Venditore di Bibite) is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Hand-signed on the lower center. Titled on the lower center. The wor...

Garden's Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen. In good condition. Not signed. Passepartout included ( 48.8 x 33.8 cm). The artwork represents a Garden's...

Judith & Holophernel is an original engraving, realized by Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet after a painting of Horace Vernet. In very good conditions. The artwork represents the key scene of the story of Judith and Holophernes. Horace Vernet (1789 -1863): The French painter of military and historical scenes Horace Vernet was born on 30 June 1789 in Paris at the Louvre, where his parents found refuge during the war. The artist mainly painted sports subjects and extensive battle scenes. Son and grandson of two well-known painters, Carle Vernet and Joseph Vernet, Horace developed a remarkable facility for working on a large scale making him one of the most important painters of military France. In favor of Napoleon Bonaparte, the painter specialized in glorifying the Napoleonic era with his art. During the restoration of the monarchy after 1815, his studio became a center of political intrigue, as well as a meeting place for sportsmen, artists and writers. One of his most famous paintings dates back to 1826, Battle of the Bridge of Arcole, and shows the young Napoleon grabbing a torn flag and leading his men across the bridge on November 17, 1796. After spending a period with the French army in Algiers (1833), Horace Vernet's works present elements of the Arab world. Later he also obtained commissions from Louis Philippe and Napoleon III to produce battle scene paintings...

Outstanding early 18th-century portrait of a seated Spaniel dog in a landscape with an array of fruits. Attributed to the work of Tobias Stranover. ...

Provenance: Achillito Chiesa, Milan Luigi Albrighi, Florence, by 1 July 1955 with Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1969 Private Collection, Connecticut Exhibited: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (on loan, 2012) Literature: Carlo Volpe, “Alcune restituzioni al Maestro dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta,” in Quaderni di Emblema 2: Miscellanea di Bonsanti, Fahy, Francisci, Gardner, Mortari, Sestieri, Volpe, Zeri, Bergamo, 1973, pp. 19-20, fig. 18, as by the Master of Saints Quiricus and Julitta (now identified as Borghese di Piero). This fine predella panel depicting the Baptism...

Scena D'Armi In Vaticano is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appears at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. Not signed. T...

The Bridge is a beautiful etching artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1745. In good condition except for missing piece of paper and ripping along the margins. Passepartout i...

Aftrer Anthony VAN DYCK - maybe Studio (1599, Antwerp – 1641, London) Flemish Double Portrait of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) & Lord Francis Villiers (1629-1648) Oil on Canvas 170 x 147 cm Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) No painter has done more to define an era than Anthony van Dyck. He spent only seven and a half years of his short life (1599- 1641) in England. He grew up in Antwerp, where his precocious talent was recognised by Peter Paul Rubens, the greatest painter of his age. He worked in Rubens’s studio and imitated his style as a religious artist, painting biblical scenes redolent of the lush piety of the counter-reformation. But soon he was on the move. In 1620, he visited London for a few months, long enough to paint a history picture, The Continence of Scipio, for the royal favourite, George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, and a portrait of his other English patron, the great art collector, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel. After a stint in Italy, making imposing portraits of the wealthy aristocracy and sketching and copying works by Titian, he returned to the Spanish Netherlands in 1627, becoming court artist to Archduchess Isabella before departing for The Hague in 1631 to paint the Dutch ruler Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. Charles I’s invitation in 1632 led Van Dyck back to London where he was knighted, paid an annual salary of £200 and installed in a house in Blackfriars with a special jetty at which the royal barge might tie up when the King was visiting his studio. By this time Van Dyck was recognised as the leading court painter in Europe, with Velazquez at the court of Philip IV of Spain his only rival. He also excelled as a superbly observant painter of children and dogs. Van Dyck’s notoriety in depicting children led to the introduction of groups of children without their parents as a new genre into English painting (amongst other new genres). For the next 300 years, Van Dyck was the major influence on English portraiture. Nearly all the great 18th Century portraitists, from Pompeo Batoni and Allan Ramsay to Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, copied Van Dyck’s costumes, poses and compositions. George Duke of Buckingham & his brother Francis Villiers Painted in 1635, this double portrait was originally commissioned by Charles I, who raised the two brothers after their father, George Villiers, was assassinated in 1628. Together with their sister, Lady Mary Villiers, they enjoyed the King’s favour absolutely. Francis whose absolute ‘inimitable handsomeness’ was noted by Marvell (who was killed in a skirmish near Kingston upon Thames). The young duke who commanded a regiment of horse at the Battle of Worcester, remained closely associated with Charles II, held a number of high offices after the Restoration and was one of the most cynical and brilliant members of the King’s entourage, immortalised as ‘Zimri’ in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitopbel. As a young man he had sold his father’s great collection of pictures in the Spanish Netherlands, many of them to the Archduke Leopold Willhelm. Painted for Charles I and placed near the portrait of their sister in the Gallery at St James’ Palace. The handling of both costumes is very rich, and the heads are very carefully and sensitively worked. That of the younger boy in particular is more solidly built up than the lower part of the figure. A preparatory drawing for the younger boy is in the British Museum. There are copies at, e.g., Highclere Castle...

Landscape is a beautiful dranwing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen. In good condition; only a sma...

Galesso di Resina Casale is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Titled, on the bottom center. The work is glued on a brownish paper. Good cond...

Porters is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Titled on the lower center. Good conditions, applied on paper, with a cutting at the top right....

This splendid lithograph De Rue de l'Hotel De Ville is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi. The s...

This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Place de la Grenette is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio...

This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. Bourg De Four is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontan...

Image dimensions: 33.7 x 48.6 cm. “Ara con tripode” (Ara with tripod) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Vincenzo Feoli, after Bernardino Nocchi as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Vincenzo Feoli incise in Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. XXVIII" 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. Original Title: Ara con Tripode di quindecemviri, e la corona...

Soft Drink Seller is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Titled on the bottom center. The work is glued on a cardboar...

This splendid lithograph Interieur de Geneve. L'Hospital is part of the series of 20 prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi...

Photo of the Great Comedian is an original work by Ermete Novelli. A wonderful photo on ivory-colored cardboard with autographed dedication. Signed in pen on the lower right. In ad...

Sherpherds with flock is a beautiful etching on cream-colored paper, realized by an artist of the XIX century. Image Dimensions: 37 x 46.5 cm In good conditions, except for some tea...

Galesso di Resina casale is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Hand-signed and titled, on the bottom center. Good conditions.

Chiesa del Gesù di Roma is an original etching artwork, realized by Giovambattista Falda, at the bottom, just below the image, the inscription in Italian "Chiesa dedicata al nome di Giesù de padri giesuiti nel rione della pigna - la facciata Architettura di Giacomo...

Roman Costume is an original hand-colored etching artwork realized by Bartolomeo Pinelli in 1819. Signed by the artist on the plate, dated lower left "Roma, 1819", titled in Italian...

Novembre is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized by Marcel Roux, an engraver and sculptor, after J.F. Millet (French Painter, 18...

Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742. In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and diffused foxings. Hand...

Female Nude is an original modern artwork realized in the 1940s by Georges Isaul (Argenteuil, 1882 - 1963). Original ink drawing on paper. Hand-signed in pen by the artist on the ...

Ex Libris - Gediminui 650 - Vilniaus Viesoji Biblioteka is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized by Bruno Pozzo, in 1950s. Hand-signed on the lower right. ...

This splendid lithograph, realized in 1880s, is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the Landscape, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. The signature is engraved on the plate the lower right. Antonio Fontanesi (Reggio Emilia, 1818 - Turin, 1882) was an Italian painter, engraver, teacher, and soldier. He was one of the most important 19th-century Italian painters, though somewhat unknown. After fighting in the I Independence War...

Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Glaucus. Wonderful plate with very fresh impression and an elegant line, from the volume “Le Temple des Mus...

Antonio Canova is an original etching on paper realized in about 1870 after Pellegrini. Sheet dimension: 21.5 x 19.5 cm The state of preservation is very good except for some smal...

Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. Wonderful plate with very fresh impression and a beautiful use of chiaroscuro,...

The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...

Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of Phineus. Beautiful plate with fresh impression and sharp details, from the volume “Le Temple des Muses”, pu...

Black and white etching on wire rod paper, representing the Greek myth of the nymph Echo. Wonderful plate with fresh impression and a beautiful use of chiaroscuro, from the volume “...

This splendid lithograph Grand Quai is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi. The state of preserva...

This splendid lithograph Le bout de la Treille is part of the series of prints dedicated to views of the city of Geneva, engraved by the Italian artist Antonio Fontanesi. The state ...

Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 162 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist Ludovico Caracciolo, after Clau...

City with Travellers is an original and little etching of an unknown artist of 17th century. The artwork is in good conditions with some little stains on a yellowed paper. No signa...

This Map of Anverpia is an original etching hand colored realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous Atlas "Civitates Orbis Ter...