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Herd - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century

Eugène BurnandHerd - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century, Late 19th century

$236

Herd - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century

Located in Roma, IT

Herd is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with foxing. The artwork is realized through sho...

Category

Late 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching

The Large Village Fair
The Large Village Fair

Cornelis DusartThe Large Village Fair, 1895

$350

The Large Village Fair

By Cornelis Dusart

Located in Middletown, NY

Hamburg: Lippmann, 1895. Copperplate engraving on cream wove paper with a deckle edge, 10 1/8 x 13

Category

Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Engraving, Handmade Paper

Fishermen resting by a riverbank
Fishermen resting by a riverbank

Pu QùaFishermen resting by a riverbank, 1804

$400

Fishermen resting by a riverbank

Located in Middletown, NY

Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260

Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris
Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris

Auguste LepèreQuai des Grands Augustins, Paris, 1886

$350

Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris

By Auguste Lepère

Located in Middletown, NY

Wood engraving on onionskin paper, 14 1/2 x 9 inches (369 x 228 mm), the full sheet. In very good

Category

Late 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Porto Vecchio, Corsica
Porto Vecchio, Corsica

Israel SilvestrePorto Vecchio, Corsica, 1680

$350

Porto Vecchio, Corsica

By Israel Silvestre

Located in Middletown, NY

Paris: Israël Henriet, c1680. Etching with engraving on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream

Category

17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving

Portrait of an infamous thief

Abraham BossePortrait of an infamous thief, 1670

$500

Portrait of an infamous thief

By Abraham Bosse

Located in Middletown, NY

: circa 1670. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (170 x 123 mm), narrow

Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen
Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen

Daniel KingOrdinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen, 1650

$600

Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen

Located in Middletown, NY

1650. Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with an indiscernible watermark with a "G," 11 3/8 x

Category

Mid-19th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper, Engraving

Chateau de Verneuil

Matthäus Merian the ElderChateau de Verneuil, 1656

$600

Chateau de Verneuil

By Matthäus Merian the Elder

Located in Middletown, NY

Engraving with hand coloring and heightening in watercolor on two leaves of expertly conjoined

Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Louis XI, Roi de France

Jean MorinLouis XI, Roi de France, circa 1640

$450

Louis XI, Roi de France

By Jean Morin

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching, engraving and stippling on cream laid paper with an indiscernible watermark in the sheet

Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching

Fountains of Rome
Fountains of Rome

Giovan Battista FaldaFountains of Rome, 1625

$650

Fountains of Rome

By Giovan Battista Falda

Located in Middletown, NY

Giacomo De Rossi, 1625. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (222 x 286 mm

Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching

Venus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis

Herman van SwaneveltVenus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis, Circa 1654

$400

Venus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis

By Herman van Swanevelt

Located in Middletown, NY

c. 1654. Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an early and large unidentified watermark

Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Carolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck
Carolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck

Rembrandt van RijnCarolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck, 1633

$800

Carolus de Mallery, by Lucas Vorsetman the Elder after van Dyck

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Middletown, NY

An exalted portrait of fellow Flemish engraver and publisher Karel van Mallery. Lucas Vorsterman the Elder (after Anthony van Dyck). Carolus de Mallery, from Icones Principum Viror...

Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching

La Messe (The Mass), after Caravaggio

Nicolas La SueurLa Messe (The Mass), after Caravaggio, 1730

$2,500

La Messe (The Mass), after Caravaggio

Located in Middletown, NY

Chiaroscuro woodcut with underlying engraving on cream laid paper, printed from two blocks in brown

Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving, Woodcut

Portrait of Marquard Freher, aged forty-nine

Aegidius SadelerPortrait of Marquard Freher, aged forty-nine, 1618

$2,800

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

Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving

Jeunes Filles Sur le Port

Jean-Emile LaboureurJeunes Filles Sur le Port, 1920

$1,200

Jeunes Filles Sur le Port

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

British Army, but were also based on his familiarity with the old masters, who typically worked in

Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

A small painting of a storm on a Mediterranean coast by Le Croix de Marseilles
A small painting of a storm on a Mediterranean coast by Le Croix de Marseilles

A small painting of a storm on a Mediterranean coast by Le Croix de Marseilles

$3,990

A small painting of a storm on a Mediterranean coast by Le Croix de Marseilles

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia

catalogued auction of Valuable Drawings and Engravings by Old Masters through Hollstein & Puppel

Category

Antique Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Landscape
Landscape

Cornelis Ploos van AmstelLandscape, 1767

$325

Landscape

By Cornelis Ploos van Amstel

Located in New York, NY

Original engraving by old master print-maker Ploos Van Amstel after Jan van Goyen. Holland, 1767

Category

1760s Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper

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Old Master Engraving For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact old master engraving you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Making the right choice when shopping for an old master engraving may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 18th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right old master engraving for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, brown, beige and blue. An old master engraving from Albrecht Dürer, Kind of Cyan, Wenceslaus Hollar, Rembrandt van Rijn and Charles Amand Durand — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. Artworks like these — often created in engraving, etching and metal — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is an Old Master Engraving?

An old master engraving can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,552, while the lowest priced sells for $135 and the highest can go for as much as $115,000.

A Close Look at Old-masters Art

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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Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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Questions About Old Master Engraving
  • What is considered an old master painting?
    1 Answer
    1stDibs ExpertJune 15, 2023
    A painting produced by a skilled, noteworthy European artist that was produced before the 19th century may be considered an Old Master painting. 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 in Europe between 1300 and 1800. Some artists considered Old Masters include William Blake, Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David, Frans Hals, Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Titian and Jan Vermeer. On 1stDibs, find a variety of paintings from some of the world’s top galleries.
  • Which artists are considered old masters?
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    1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    A number of artists who were important in the history and development of Western art are considered Old Masters. They include Albrecht Dürer, Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rembrandt. Find a large selection of fine art on 1stDibs.
  • Who were the greatest Old Masters in the history of art?
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    1stDibs ExpertFebruary 17, 2023
    Who the greatest Old Masters in art history are is largely a matter of debate. 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. Shop a large selection of art from some of the world's top galleries on 1stDibs.

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