18th Century Pair of Paintings with Animals Oil on Canvas by Crivellone

Attributed to Giacomo Ceruti (Milan, 1698-1767) Portrait of Felice Paganoni Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 73 cm With frame, 109 x 85 x 4 cm "Felice Pag...

Giovanni Crivelli known as Crivellino (Milan,? - Parma, 1760) Fight between dogs and bison Oil on canvas, 84 x 111 cm With frame 112 x 139 cm Thanks to the comparison with h...

18th century, Piedmontese, School Scene with spinner Measures: Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm Frame 70 x 80 cm.

I. Reneman (Netherlands, active in the second half of the 18th century) Parrot with cherubs and flowers Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 84.5 cm Signed on the base “I. Reneman fecit...

Giovanni Giacomo Figari (Desenzano del Garda, 1739-1809) Madonna and Child adored by San Francesco di Paola and San Gregorio Magno (About 1765) (2) Oil on panel, 41 x 22.5 - with frame 46.7 x 27.5 x 3.2 cm Expertise Prof. Sava The softly collected and intimate dimension suggested by the present pair of paintings underlines, together with the saints appearing in adoration, the totally private dimension of the order. The saints chosen at the feet of the Madonna and Child are in fact Francesco di Paola and Gregorio Magno, immediately recognizable by the wise features, by the Franciscan habit and by the crosier supported by a putto, the other by the triple crown placed on the ground as a sign of respect. Most likely made as ex votos, as a tribute to the patrons or as preparatory models for two altarpieces, if the saints were to reflect their names, the paintings are offered for specular and meditated composition. An inflamed colorism lights up the veils of the Madonna, enhancing their prominent position with respect to the saint in her presence, and warming the remaining part of the composition with sweet intimacy. The compositional balance, the quality of the drawing and the plastic consistency of the drapery allow the painter's hand to be brought closer to the sphere of Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770), a Venetian painter, working in different cities in northern Italy. He was influenced by Ludovico Dorigny, Antonio Balestra...

Venetian school, 18th century Study with the head of a cherub Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled. The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting. The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...

A beautiful and most charming pair of French 18th century oil on canvas paintings. Each most decorative and colorful cloud shaped painting disp...

Picture with characters painted in oil on canvas from the 18th century. The painting represents characters in an everyday street scene, the frame is made of gilded wood, on the back...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a landscape with figures and carriages. Veneto, 18th century. The background of the painting is dominated by a picturesque Venetian landsc...

Francesco Simonini (Parma, 16 June 1686 - Parma, 1766) “The rest of the soldiers” and “The march of soldiers” oil on canvas The very fine paintings, attributable to the painte...

An impressive and large scale Continental 18th century oil on canvas painting. The painting is framed within a fine walnut frame with a carved...

Pair of Large Framed 18th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Paintings of Classical Scenes