Pair of Printed and Hand Colored French Fashion Plates with Oval Gilded Frames

A Large Pair of Hand-Colored Botanical Fern Prints with Makers Stamp, Italy 1960's Custom framed set from Andr. Matthioli that are presented in classic silver leaf frames. A heighte...

A set of hand colored prints with gilt highlights of neoclassic urns. Elaborate Egyptian Revival frames with a bronze finish over wood. Blac...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Pair of prints engraved by burin and painted in watercolor; both are a tribute to Cupid; the name Cupid - meaning desire, lust - was given by the Romans to the Greek god of love, actually called Eros. Alternatively, he was called just Love always by the Latins. As the son of Aphrodite, goddess of love, he, like his mother, was capable of any act, even deplorable. In the first print, which has been cut out and shaped, there are two young girls offering God a basket of fruit and a goblet of wine; in the second print a mature woman is about to be hit by Cupid's love arrow; both prints have been made with a beautiful burin engraving, then finished with delicate watercolors. The frames are handmade in gilded wood. The prints were made between 1850 and 1855 by Adrien Nargeol (see signature) a prolific and talented French engraver and were published in the "Journal des Demoiselles...

A Folio of Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891 first edition text and plates. Chromomo- lithographed plates by Gillot, colored and decorated in raised gold by hand. The sevres porcelain fa...

French Art Deco Hand Colored Fashion Print Pochoir by M. Leone. 1920's Hand colored print signed in the artist’s hand. An early 20th-century French pochoir...

Pair of 19th century German botanical color lithographs in gilt wood frames with beautiful marbleized mats. Each with various plants and trees, includin...