Fine 18th Century Grisaille, Oil on Canvas

An elegant and extremely decorative French late 18th century Oil on Canvas and Giltwood Grisaille painting. The wonderfully detailed painting depicts a charming scene of four women a...

A charming and most decorative Continental 18th century Louis XVI st. Oil on Canvas and Giltwood Grisaille painting. This wonderful monochromatic painting is set within a Louis XVI s...

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...

Painting with probably biblical Italian school characters End of the 17th beginning of the 18th century unsigned carrying a Carlo Maratta cartouche of in...

Goya oil on canvas from xviii century The canvas is relined. It is from the same time that Goya made the cartons. The painting measures: 135 x 101 cm without frame. The dutch frame measures: 172 x 140 cm -The blind chicken (1789) is one of the cartoons that served as a model for the manufactures of the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara by Francisco de Goya...

This narrative-rich 18th-century painting most likely transports us to a lively hunting scene featuring noble men and women, killers and a horde of dogs hunting game. This painting ...

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

Late 18th century French Grisaille Painting, oil on canvas. Mythological scene with the Greek God Pan and dancing putto figures with ivory painted an...

Infuse your space with the elegance and sophistication of the 18th century with this exquisite oil painting of a French noblewoman. The artist masterfully captures the delicate featu...

18th century portrait of a gentleman oil on canvas.