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Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

Intriguing painting of a sea view. Wonderful approach to water and sky. It is a gouache on paper, framed in a wooden gilded frame behind glass. Atm...

The hand-written notes on the back of this miniature watercolor tell what was, at the time, a scandalous story. The portrait is of Hanah Tichbon. The inscription reads in part, "wen...

Antique Italian painting from 18th century. Framework oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a view with characters, animals and ruins of good pictorial quality. Large size fr...

Antique Italian painting from the 19th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a female portrait, a young girl in an elegant dress of good pictorial quality. C...

Spanish Painting in Oil on Canvas of Andalusian characters Measurements with frame: 80x100x6cm.

A 20th Century pastel painting on paper of a chocolate Labrador. Excellent condition of this handsome dog. Signed on lower corner, dated '85.. 17 hi...

A watercolor by Robert Freiman.

Beautiful work of art, gouache on paper, by the Belgian female artist Jo Verbestel. It is a portrait of a mythical figure / fantasy figure, in a somewhat psychedelic style. The paint...

Italian painting dated 1945. Work oil on masonite depicting a particular view with characters Celebration of Spring of excellent pictorial quality. Nice size framework of pleasant de...

Evidence of Western Europe's fascination with Native American culture, dress and way of life for over a century, this vivid drawing uses watercolor, gouache and crayon to capture a g...