Mackinnon Drawings

Nude male academy. Red chalk on paper. While the artist who drew this drawing is not known, the confidence in the trait along with the fascinating perspect...

Florentine or Flemish school 17th century study of the Medici Lion by Flaminio Vacca. Measures: Sheet 31.7 x 48.8 cm. (12.5 x 19.2 in.) Frame...

Set of 6 19th century McKenney and Hall portraits of Native Americans. Hand colored lithographs from: The history of the Indian tribes of North Ameri...

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...

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...

Portraits pair Danish early 19th century, Denmark mahogany Frame. A pair of portraits of Queen Frederikke and King Christian VIII. In original mahogany frames.

Antique Italian painting from late 19th century. Oil painting on masonite depicting landscape, view of mountain village in impressionist style. Signed painting on the lower left G. M...

This pair of 19th century chromolithographs by Daumont presents two views of the grand foyer and loggia of the Paris Opera. On one, there is a view of a detail of a bay decorated with an "Italia" medallion painted by Paul Baudry...

Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 19th century. Framework oil on canvas, depicting interior scene with characters of excellent pictorial quality. Very bright and p...

Artist: Pedro Friedeberg (Mexican, 1936-) Title:Le Tombeau D'Hemingway Year: 1963 Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper: Size: 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 plus 3 inch frame Mark: upper lef...

Set of 4 Signed Walter Spies Watercolor Insect Studies – Framed & Custom Matted An exceptional and rare set of four original watercolors by renowned arti...

Small red chalk drawing of an Italian city view. Framed behind glass. Image size 9.5 x 10 cm. Signed lower right: Damiano Ambrosioni.