18th Century Oil on Canvas French Antique Painting Landscape with Dog, 1750

Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on panel depicting a bucolic landscape with a shepherd, dog and goats of good pictorial quality. Painting of contained s...

Roman school of the second half of the 17th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting a wonderful pastoral scene with figures and animals at the fountain. In the center of the painti...

An atmospheric English oil on canvas painting from the 19th century, depicting a black-and-tan hunting dog frozen in a moment of stillness, poised and alert as it discovers a pheasan...

This large (110 inches high) oil on canvas painting depicts a successful hunter, with his felled game displayed near his retriever dogs. Our hunter is leaning against a stone pedestal, clad in blue coat and pants with his rifle beneath his right hand. The man is wearing a gold cap with red fabric attached to it and has a sword on his left hip. Three retriever dogs stand to the hunter’s left, while a fourth sits in front of him (the man appears to be motioning to this dog with his left hand). An orange terra cotta vase adorned with spiral fluting sits on top of a molded plinth at the top of the pedestal. Ivy has begun to wrap around the vase, which also is festooned with green drapery. On a ledge at the base of the pedestal is the felled game: a rabbit and three birds. The hunting display is surrounded by numerous trees and shrubbery. Mountains and a lake can be seen in the background, beneath a blue sky with pink and orange clouds and birds flying. Based on the size and vertical orientation, the scene was most likely part of a French boiserie room...