Pietro della Vecchia Art

A very fine Italian 18th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582-1647). The young Virgin Mary attending to...

This commanding mid-17th-century Spanish Baroque painting depicts Saint Elijah wrapped in a coarse Carmelite habit and raising a flaming sword. Towering within the vertical composit...

This is a monumental and spectacular 18th century, or possibly early 19th, oil on canvas of the Italian school. The canvas depicts a shepherd serenading a maiden in a wooded glen. B...

A beautiful, fascinating painting depicting one of the figures from Frans Hals’s famous painting *The Banquet of the Officers of the St George’s Militia* The reverse bears the artist...

17th Century Italian School St Peter Oil on Canvas 55 1/2 x 41 inches This large and tender rendering of Saint Peter was painted by the hand of great Italian painter of the 17th Cen...

Painter in the circle of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Viterbo 1587 - Rome 1625) - Saint Joseph. 108 x 80 cm unframed, 123 x 95 cm with frame (not signed). Antique oil painting on canvas, ...

This expressive genre scene, an oil on canvas, presents a magnificent example of Baroque-era painting. The dramatic narrative of the "dice game" subject - where the emotions of an ea...

A masterful example of Italian Mannerist painting, this exceptional panel was composed by the renowned Florentine painter Domenico Puligo. Alongside Jacopo Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, Puligo is remembered as one of the foremost figures of the Mannerist movement that rose to prominence during the 16th century in Florence. This panel of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and Saint John the Baptist is a characteristic example of his celebrated devotional images, which grace museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museo del Prado (Madrid), Palazzo Borghese (Rome), and Palazzo Pitti (Florence), among many others. Puligo’s skill with color is fully demonstrated in the beautifully preserved work. Considering its age, the vibrancy and the sheer range of color is remarkable. The Virgin Mary’s crimson dress...

Flower Garland Surrounding the Virgin and Child, after Jan Brueghel the Elder (flowers), Circle of Frans Francken II (figures), Antwerp, circa 1615–1625, Oil on copper This finely executed garland painting on copper belongs to the Antwerp tradition of collaborative devotional cabinet pictures developed in the early seventeenth century. The meticulously rendered floral wreath may be associated with the circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder, while the central figures are attributable to the circle of Frans Francken II. The copper support, favored for high-quality works of this type, provides an exceptionally smooth surface that permits minute precision of detail and preserves the jewel-like luminosity of the colours. Set against a dark, subtly modulated background, the oval garland appears to float freely within the pictorial field, leaving the corners and margins open and lending the composition an airy sense of balance. The wreath is constructed from a carefully orchestrated rhythm of large, voluminous blossoms—roses in varying hues, carnations, anemones, and marigolds—interwoven with a profusion of smaller flowers, leaves, and stems. Each bloom is individually characterized, displaying botanical precision, crisp highlights, and delicate tonal transitions consistent with early seventeenth-century Flemish flower painting...

Peruvian Cuzco School Oil on Canvas of the Archangel Michael defeating Satan 18th Century. Later Frame. Wear commensurate with age. The Cuzco or Cusco school was a Roman Catho...

17th Century Antoon van Dyck Follower Religious Painting A very important not signed painting from the Flemish school, attributed to an artist from the circle of the great painter A...

"Oil On Canvas Family Portrait After Sir Anthony Van Dyck" After Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish painter, 1599-1641), Group of three young girls with a bust of Mercury Oil on canvas (doubled), probably end 19th century, with French wax seal...