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
Ancient Roman Decorations - Etching G. Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Decorations is an etching on paper realized by Giacomo Casanova in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding and a small c...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter Q - Etching by G. Mignani - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet Q, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Mignani in the 18th century.
Good ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
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Etching
Letter of the Alphabet S - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions with minor folding....
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Boats - Etching Giuseppe Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Boats from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is anetching on paper realized by Giuseppe Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate....
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
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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
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco 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 exc...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Letter of the Alphabet P - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet P from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condition...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Chiesa ed Ospizio di S. Gallo - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa ed Ospizio di S. Gallo is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions a...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - OEtching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue from Herculaneum from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the p...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditio...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Letter of the Alphabet S - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions with minor foxing.
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Original Etching V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by V. Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Birds - Etching by Fernando Strina - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Birds from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Fernando Strina in the 18th Century.
Monogrammed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxi...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
$267 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape from Herculaneum - Etching V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Letter of the Alphabet D - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet D from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions.
The etching belongs...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Carlo Oraty - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Oraty in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with som...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Heiligie Familie, Old Masters Photogravure Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Bredius, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Heiligie Familie, Year: 1906 Date of Original 1646, Medium: Photogravure, Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56 cm), Printer:...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Bust of an Old Man with Curly Hair- Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of an old man with curly hair is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905)after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a la...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
View of Oran - Original Lithograph - 1846
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
1840s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs - Original Etching by Vincenzo Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bas-Reliefs, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the l...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco 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 exc...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Tripods from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century.
Signed on the pl...
Category
Late 18th 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
Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet A, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions.
The etching belon...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Grotesque Profile of Man with High Hat - Engravin after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Grotesque Profile of Man with High Hat is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. The piece of art belongs to ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol: the Smaller Plate is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1658 ca. This wonderful pi...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left-Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art ...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Allegoric scene with the Tiber
Located in Roma, IT
Allegoric scene with the Tiber river is a fine original drawing (black chalk on laid and watermarked paper at the center) by an exponent of the Neoclassical school of the nineteenth ...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink
Letter of the Alphabet D - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet D from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condition...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Profilo d'una Sedia Curule di Marmo
Located in Roma, IT
Etching of the serie “Vases, candelabras, gravestones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments”, made and etched by Piranesi, published in the year 1778 by his son Francesco. Very fine etching, “Profile of the curial chair...
Category
1770s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching F. Cepparoli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Francesco Cepparoli in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good c...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Satyr - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Satyr from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized in the 18th Century.
Monogrammed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing.
The etching be...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
La Vierge pleurant le corps mort de Jesus Christ, Heliogravure
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vierge pleurant le corps mort de Jesus Christ, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12 x 9 in. (30.48 x ...
Category
1870s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
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 belongs...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching P. Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Pietro Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions exce...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condit...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Frescos - Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescos 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 con...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Monogrammed on the plate.
Good conditions ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from Herculaneum from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Virgin on a Winged Cart - Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Virgin on a Winged Cart is a brown-ink drawing with watercolor interventions on paper made by an anonymous artist of the Neoclassical school (Second half of 18th century).
From the ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Archiginnasio della Sapienza - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Archiginnasio della Sapienza is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome.
Signed ...
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 Scene 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 ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching V. Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions ex...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Self-portrait with a Broad Nose - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait with a Broad Nose is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Antiquities of Herculaneum Letter S - Etching by Gaspar V. Wittel- 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Gaspare Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Good conditions except for some f...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Original Etching G. Casanova - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue of Herculaneum from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by R. Casanova in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plat...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Birds - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Birds from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized in the 18th Century by Giovanni Elia Morghen.
Good conditions.
The etching belongs to t...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
$267 Sale Price
20% Off
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Liber Veritatis - Plate 176 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
Category
1810s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Basilica e Monasterio di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura by G. Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Basilica e Monasterio di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura is an etching on paper of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Sedale e Chiesa di S. Spirito - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sedale e Chiesa di S. Spirito is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome.
Signed...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter S - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet L, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper reali...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Self-Portrait with Long Bushy Hair - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait with long bushy hair is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a l...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Etching by Niccolò Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes of Herculaneum from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Vanni in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Goo...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate, on the lowe...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Die Kasan-Kirche (St. Petersbourg) - Original Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Die Kasan-Kirche is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower central m...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching V. Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions exc...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
Het leeuwendeel (The Lion's Share) /// Old Masters Animals Landscape Dog Leopard
By Dirk Stoop
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dirk Stoop (Dutch, c.1615-1686)
Title: "Het leeuwendeel (The Lion's Share)"
Portfolio: The Fables of Aesop
Year: 1665 (an earlier state of unknown states)
Medium: Original Et...
Category
1660s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio, Gesso
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
Oriental Head - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Head is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition of the 19...
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19th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Portrait After Raphael - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of After Raphael is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Know...
Category
1810s Old Masters Art
Materials
Etching
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