Mid-18th Century Drawings

It is not easy to find this kind of hand drawed and hand-made French wallpaper in good conditions. The shining turquoise and the scenes of the games of the characters and jugglers i...

18th century circa 1750s English chinoiserie figures in the french taste. Drawn, designed and hand colored by Jean Pillement and engraved by P. C.Canot. In Italian gilded bamboo styl...

A Collection of Engravings Illustrating 18th Century Furniture and Objects that the artist felt represented certain locations around the world...

A framed Baroque pencil study for a Diana and Endymion composition attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani Attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani Probably London, England; third ...

As an outstanding and highly esteemed painter, this artist was much more famous during his lifetime than his better known brother Giacomo. Francesco is believed to be an illegitimate...

Italy, circa 1750 A mid eighteenth century drawing of a winged putto with arms outstretched, in the manner of Michelangelo. Executed in b...

18th century German, a hand-colored engraving of a dressage horse and rider from Description du Manège Moderne by Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron Rais d' Eisenberg (German, ca. 1700-ca. 1770). Engraved by Bernard Picart (French, 1673-1733). Titled "Le Brillant", this dressage engraving is plate XXXIII. There is a gallery label verso. The print is matted and framed under UF-3 plexiglass, which offers the maximum amount of UV protection (approx. 97%). This print was originally part of an illustrated book Baron d'Eisenberg made describing the art of the cavaliers and depicting the different breeds of horses- The full title of the book is L'Art de Monter a Cheval: ou Description du Manége Moderne, Dans sa Perfection, published in Leipzig: Arkstée et Merkus, 1747). A set of 7 framed engravings from the same book sold at Sotheby's for $9,500 (plus tax and buyers premium). Reference: The author, a German horseman and artist, spent some of his youth at the manège of Saxe-Weimar before entering into the service of the Emperor. He then spent six years in Naples as the Master of Horse of the Viceroy before returning to Vienna where he studied under M. de Regenthal, the imperial Master of Horse. He participated in the coronation of the Emperor Charles V at Frankfurt in 1711, then spent some time in England, but was back in Germany before 1753. He probably died in Tuscany where he was Director and Master of the Horse at the Academy in Pisa. Brunet II, 957; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 438. The Baron wrote several important and lavishly illustrated books on horses: his Description du manège moderne dans sa perfection, London 1727, and Dictionnaire des termes du manège moderne, 1747, being the best well-known. He dedicated Description du Manège Moderne to King George II and to his son, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Subscribers to the book included royalty and nobility from all over Europe. The engraver was Bernard Picart, born in Paris in 1673. He gained honors at the Academy of Paris at the age of sixteen. He was a master designer and engraver and worked in Paris and Amsterdam until his death in 1733. Dimensions: 9"h x 12"w (sight), 16.5"h x 19.25"w (frame) Condition: Good, some rippling to sheet, not examined out of frame. Provenance: Lombard Antiquarian Maps & Prints, Cape Elizabeth...

Antique Italian painting from 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting biblical subject Joseph and and Potiphar's Wife of good pictorial hand. Beautiful measure and pleasant fur...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Painting of great size and impact, oil on canvas, depicting a particular still life with flowers, fruit, roosters, fish and cats. Non-...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a particular classic genre scene on a bucolic landscape of good pictorial quality. Painting of good size and pleasant furnishings with a non-coeval wooden frame, from the 20th century, carved, gilded and silvered. Frame with fabric passe-partout with some small signs of wear. Artwork of pleasant perspective and good brightness, finely represented characters in classic clothes...

Important ink drawing representing animated landscape with ruins and aqueduct in the background Venetian school Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certific...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Anthony of Padua and baby Jesus of good pictorial quality. Painting of excep...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a bucolic landscape, pastoral scene with chariot of good pictorial quality. Small painting adorned wit...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting pastoral scene, bucolic landscape with animals and popular characters of good pictorial quality. Paint...

18th.entury unframed pencil drawing of an Harpist.

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Crucifixion with Madonna, Magdalena and Saint John of good pictorial quality. Nice...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Work oil on canvas depicting a river landscape with characters and ruins of good pictorial quality. Wooden frame of the 20th century c...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting still life with flowers, vegetables and fruit, for antique dealers and collectors. Oval painting adorn...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oval work oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Madonna with child of good pictorial quality. Contemporary carved and gilded woo...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting the allegory of motherhood, landscape with female figure and children of excellent pictorial quality. ...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas (glued on a board) depicting a pleasant caprice, seen with architectures and characters of good pictorial qualit...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite circa 1750 French school chalk on paper sketch of a Architectural Capriccio. A beautiful example of the French school, the piece ...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a bucolic landscape, view with goats of excellent pictorial quality. Small painting for antique dealer...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting landscape with pilgrims of a religious nature, scene under study...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Joseph with a child of good pictorial quality. Beautifully sized painting ...

Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew of good pictorial quality. Small artwork, full of ch...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite circa 1750 French school chalk on paper sketch of a classical landscape in charcoal and pen A beautiful example of the French sch...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Work oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Moses Drawing Water from the Rock of a good pictorial quality. Painting of great meas...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas framework of the Venetian school depicting a mythological subject Diana's bath of good pictorial quality. Bucolic landsc...

Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1770, the large monochromatic etching is...

Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1775, the large monochromatic etching is...

Antique Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Work oil on canvas depicting a character head, profile of a male figure of great pictorial quality. The canvas in question, with its extraordinary shades and turned forms, find similarity with the works of Egidio Dall'Oglio, a pupil of Giambattista Piazzetta...

Antique Italian painting from 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a portrait of a girl with a goldfinch of good pictorial quality. Framework of good size and pleasant fur...

Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting religious subject Holy family of good pictorial quality. Nic...

Antique Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Work oil on canvas depicting a wooded landscape with St. John the Baptist and a lamb of good pictorial quality. Beau...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a landscape with figures of good pictorial quality. Nice sized and pleasantly decorated paintinf wit...

Antique Spanish painting from 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Piety, Virgin with deposed Christ, of good ...

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 English painting from the second half of the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting genre scene with characters of good picto...

Antique 18th century Italian city people drawing with gilt frame The measurement is from the drawing.  

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Adoration of the Magi of good pictorial quality. Painting of great sige and impa...

Five Chinese paintings of western people by an unknown artist China, circa 1760, captions later All in giltwood frames. “A woman with Portuguese hairdo, with gold, silver and gemstone necklace, a skirt under a vest, a koi on her back, called a cloak, a woman customarily inherited the family business, the male humble, to the threshold (Qianlong year, circa 1735).” Gouache on silk, measures: 32 x 25.4 cm “He is a Westerner who had a white skin. He does not have a heavy beard but plaits his hair. He wears a triangular black hat, short jacket, leather shoes and long stockings...

2.nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

2nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

Antique French painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Francis of good pictorial quality. Non-contemporary frame in wood and plast...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Anthony the Abbot of good pictorial quality. Antique wooden frame, not coe...

Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting an interior scene of a tavern with characters of good pictorial quality. Nice size and pleasant impact painting, for antique dealers, interior decorators and collectors of old Dutch painting...

Decorate a living room wall or study with this elegant and colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1760 and is set in a gilt frame, ...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting landscape with characters and animals at the well of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of great ...

La Jeunesse (Youth) Tapestry Polychrome wool and silk France, Aubusson, circa 1750 It measures 107.08 in height x 104.33 in (272 cm height x 265 cm). State of conservation: good The tapestry is accompanied by the engraving from which the subject was taken. The engraving measures 23.50 in x 25.86 in (59.7 cm x 65.7 cm) with the frame. The Aubusson tapestry has controversial origins: some believe that it was the Saracens who imported this type of work into Europe while other authors believe that the production began at the same time as the marriage between Louis I of Bourbon and Maria de Hainaut in 1310. It was at this time that a considerable importation of tapestries from Flanders into France began, followed shortly thereafter by the importation of their production techniques. At the beginning of the seventeenth century a royal edict from Henry IV halted the importation of Flemish tapestries, contributing to the subsequent Expansion of Aubusson production. The status of royal manufacture was to be granted only in 1665, even though the Nantes edict caused a drop in production because of the forced migration of weavers to Germany. The full recovery and the success of the manufacturing took place during the eighteenth century when the great painters and the tapestry manufacturers began to collaborate. Great French artists of the time and specialist painters, the “cartonniers”, painted “cartons de tapisserie” in oil or tempera, all of which were to be a source for the tapestries. As an alternative to the “cartons”, scenes taken from prints and engravings were freely used. The tapestry in question, made of wool and silk, is in good condition; the colors are still fresh and the silks, which give brightness to the scene, are well preserved. There are a small number of integrative restorations present, while the lining and the suspension system have been recently refurbished. The work is made with a flat-weave, according to the custom of the Aubusson manufactures, which is clearly demonstrated by this work since it shows all the technical and material characteristics typical of the first half of the eighteenth-century production: the “Jeunesse” was probably woven in the middle of the XVIII century. The scene itself is compelling: a rural clearing is depicted, centered around a tall tree with dense fronds with lance-shaped leaves. In the shade of this tree some scenes of courtship can be seen. A couple hugs each other, one is caught stealing a kiss and another, lying softly on the grass, is still at the early stages of courtship: together with the suitor the girl looks with smiling malice at the kissing couple. On the right, two young men practice archery while aiming at a target placed on top of a pole. The scene, with male and female characters intent on games and gallantry in a festive atmosphere, is taken - faithfully, but in mirror-image - from an engraving, which in turn was itself taken from the painting (now kept at the National Gallery in London, inv. NG103 and part of a series with the four ages of man) by Nicolas Lancret, produced around 1735. The tapestry is accompanied by a copy of the engraving, which bears, at the bottom, the name of the author (“N. Lancret pinxit”), the name of the engraver (“N. De Larmessin sculpsit”) and four short verses on the subject of love disputes: Pourquoi tous ces combats si chers a la jeunesse, Quels frivoles talents veut-elle mettre au jour? Non: chacun voudroit vaincre aux yeux de sa Maitresse, La Lice est une Scène ou triomphe l’Amour. Why all these fights so dear to youth, What frivolous talents does it want to bring to light? No: everyone would want to win in the eyes of his Mistress, The Lice is a Scene where Love triumphs. At the bottom we read: “A’ Paris chez N. De Larmessin graveur du Roy Rue de Noyer à la 4 (?) porte cochère a droite entrant par la Rue St. Jacques A.P.D.R. [Avec Privilège Du Roy]”. Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), along with Antoine Watteau, was a pupil of Pierre Durin and Claude Gillot...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas framework depicting landscape and folk scene with children of good pictorial quality. Painting of beautiful size and ple...

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...

The Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Rome. Red chalk on paper. Provenance: H. Shickman Gallery, New York (D1311). Label verso where given to Hubert Robert. This sumptuous drawing is a ...

A black ink and sepia wash drawing by French artist Jean-Baptiste Le Prince of a classical scene of Roman soldiers with camel signed and dated lower left. T...

Set of four Chippendale framed design book engravings, circa 1760 Origin: France circa 1760 Measurements: 21 3/4" W x 17 3/8" H.

Two Putti's in Flight Attributed to Francois Boucher (Paris 1703-1770), Black chalk and stamping, with red and white chalk on buff paper. Bears signature in pen and brown ink: F.Bouc...

Rare signed and dated Grisaille panel of The Allegory of Art by "Jacob de Wit," 1749. Incorporated into a mirror in the late 18th century. Putti en grisaille. Original gilt. Al...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a religious subject Saint Catherine of Siena...