Early Antique Naive Madonna And Child, Original Portrait Painting, 18th Century

ANTIQUE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING Depicting two young girls, probably sisters with rosy cheeks in matching blue dresses holding flowers in an interior setting in front of a regency/Will...

ORIGINAL ANTIQUE OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING Depicting a gentleman of the period with mutton chops, a characterful face and piercing blue eyes. Painted in an expressive yet somewhat na...

Antique Framed Religious Print A Swedish production after the original 1868 painting by Franz Ittenbach (1813-1879). Depicting Mary and Joseph tendin...

Antique Original Charcoal and Chalk Study Depicting a Girl and her Dog An extremely charming portrait study which is sensitively and skillfully executed. Framed and glazed in its o...

Splendid Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil painting on canvas depicting a wonderful Madonna with sleeping child, of remarkable pictorial quality. For the delicacy of the co...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas dating back to the Piedmontese school of the early 18th century. The work depicts the Madonna with the Baby Jesus in her arms and next to them is the...

17th century, Tuscan school Madonna and Child Oil on canvas, 31 x 21 cm With frame, cm 37,5 x 27,5 The pearly incarnations and the thoughtful play of looks between the Virgin, turned to the Son, and Questi, warmly open to the viewer, pour out the present painting with compositional perfection. Virginal fabrics become mottled at the folds, wrapping the Madonna in a thin vitreous mantle. The pastel colors, shining on the pink robe just tightened at the waist by a gold cord, enliven the faces of the divine couple in correspondence of the cheeks, lit by an orange warmth. Even the left hand of the Virgin, composed in perfect classical pose (Botticelli, Madonna with Child, 1467, Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon), is sprinkled with warmth thanks to the immediate touch with Christ. From the nimbus of the Mother a delicate luminous disk is effused, which takes back, in the most distant rays, the colour of the hair of the Son, from the tones of the sun. The Child Jesus is represented intent in a tender gesture of invitation with the right hand, while with the other he offers a universal blessing: with his hand he retracts the index and annular palms, extending the remaining three fingers, symbol of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The painting welcomes and re-elaborates that typically Tuscan formalism that boasted in the rest of Italy the constant appreciation by the most up-to-date artists and collectors. Arrangement, composition and mixing of colors place the canvas in the middle between the changing mannerist and the sculptural figures of Michelangelo, essential yardstick of comparison in terms of anatomical and expressionistic rendering. In the present, silvery and pinkish powders act as three-dimensional inducers to the Child’s mentioned musculature and to the vivid folds of the clothes, expertly deposited on the lunar whiteness of the skins. While these colours recall the equally brilliantly transparent colours of Pier Francesco Foschi...

Early 17th century French School "Virgin and Child " Oil on canvas (Original canvas, restorations, gaps) 71.5 x 60.3 cm Provenance Duc de Lesdiguières, according to an old label ...