French Louis XVI Style Trompe L'Oeil Oil on Canvas in a Giltwood Frame

A French Empire Napoleonic military oil on canvas painting with a newer ebonized and gilded frame. The still life painting depicts French Nation...

A French striped pine trumeau mirror with an oil painting in the style of Fragonard.

A 19th century French carved and giltwood Louis XVI style chandelier.

French Louis XVI style burled walnut, bronze and stone gueridon table based on a model by Weisweiler.

This large antique 19th century French Louis XVI style carved and giltwood chandelier features carved foliate designs, and scrolling branches that end in acanthus leaf bobeches. . Th...

A large French Louis XVI style carved wood pedestal with a faux marble and gilded finish. This is a very decorative piece that can hold a large vessel or bust.

18th century, pair of French Louis XVI oil on canvas paintings with trompe l’œil, attributable to Piat Joseph Sauvage (Tournai, 1744–1818) Size: cm H 94 x L 132 each The pair o...

Possibly late 18th century but most likely 19th century painted arched painted panel. Either a panel intended for a trumeau or to be inset into wall boiserie as a trumeau. The upper ...

Trompe-l'oeil style still life oil painting on burlap with a pleasing monotone palette and a classical mediterranean composition. Featuring a contrived weathered background and gold ...

Gary Erbe (b. 1944) New York/New Jersey painter - Oil on canvas titled "All Creatures." The painting is in excellent condition and presents in a great frame...

18th century, large Italian neoclassical oil on canvas four panels screen with Trompe L’œil These large screen is composed of four panels in oil on canvas painted. Neoclassical, dating to the second half of the 18th century. Each panel represents a trompe l'oeil, with a classical architecture with square section marble columns and large clogging. Inside the pink space of the first and third panels are painted, as inserted in a niche with bronze frame, ancient busts...

A stunning trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) mid 20th century Italian oil painting by artist Alfano Dardari. This work depicts a beautiful flower in a vase with a perfect little droplet of water resting ever so gently on a petal. The flower in the vase sits atop a shelf upon which a gorgeous butterfly has alighted. Also on the shelf is a gold watch. And do you see a thread through all of this? I do. Mind you, it's my opinion but I'll happily share it with you. Memento Mori. Instead of defining it for you, I'll offer this description from the Tate in London: "Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers. Closely related to the memento mori picture is the vanitas still life. In addition to the symbols of mortality these may include other symbols such as musical instruments, wine and books to remind us explicitly of the vanity (in the sense of worthlessness) of worldly pleasures and goods. The term originally comes from the opening lines of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible: ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity...