Gesso Paintings

A Pair of French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Allegory of Fortune and Virtue". The old-master style oval canvas' depicting Fortune as a classical seated elegantly dressed maiden tossi...

Oil on canvas depicting a still life with fruits of the sea including various shell fish and lobster together with a bottle of wine and glass on a table top surface. Signed Vilgum lo...

A Continental Early 20th Century Orientalist Oil on Canvas titled 'Le maître de céans et sa favorite' (The master of the house and his favorite), inspired by the original work of Ant...

A fine oil painting depicting a boy feeding a goat with berries. it's painted on a wooden panel. Signed right under: Frédéric Viret. In an elegant gold leaf frame. The paint and the ...

Oil painting on canvas by Peter Bouvier. Wonderful painting made in oil on canvas by Milanese painter Pietro Bouvier. The painting depicts a young woman intent on spinning wool out...

A refined oil painting of a lying dog. Signed bottom right, signature not clearly legible. A. Tschoffen? Painted with oil paint on canvas. The old canvas is covered on the backside ...

A beautiful antique dog portrait of a Gordon Setter. The painting is dated 1902 and signed by Médard Tytgat. It is a beautiful scene, the dog pos...

An antique gouache (watercolor) painting of a basket with flowers, painted on paper. Signed right under; D. Seydlitz. Origin unclear, probably Belgium, around 1870-1880. In a gold leaf gilded frame...

Provincial oil on canvas depicting the French market scene of trading commodities in the town centre, circa 1850.  

An exceptional original Old Master reproduction of Isaac 'Blessing Jaacob' after Govert Flinck, a student of Rembrandt. The original 17th cen...

Oil painting on wooden panel behind glass. Signature is illegible, might be G. Deauviulle. Presumably made in Belgium. A lovely and cheerful painting. Original frame. Dimensions fr...

A fine quality oil painting of a flower still life in the tradition of the Dutch/Flemish Renaissance style. It is a beautiful antique painting. Great colorful flowers, small insects...

An antique oil painting, portrait of an English Springen Spaniel. It is really striking and refined painted. Signed right under by the female artist ‘Animalier' Alice Léotard...

A unique oil painting of 1st violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the famous very popular Boston Pops, Mr. Einer Hansen. Mr. Hansen was born In Denmark in 1890 and...

This antique painting was dome by the very well known Philip Eustice Stretton of England in approximately 1900 in the period Victorian style. This original painting is done with oil ...

Silvio Bicchi (1874 Livorno-1948 Florence) La Mucca, The Cow. Pupil of G. Fattori. Charming pastel of a young cow in a gilt gesso and wood carved frame. Italy, first quarter twentie...

Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a superb quality oil on canvas titled "Flowers of the Alps" ("Blumen der Alpen") Depicting young standing and posing young maiden holding a wicker b...

This unique and vibrant enamel painting on copper is of a sailboat in stormy waters. The sky is aglow in bright yellow, ochre, and white mixing with hints of blue and green. The roll...

American portrait oil on canvas of a young ship captain holding a spyglass with a sailing ship, crew in rowboat, and gulls in lower background mounted in the original decorative gilt...

Albert Schickedanz Portrait of a Gentlewoman Hungarian painting in watercolor on cardboard signed vertically in red to the left of the figure of the lady. Albert Schickedanz (Bielsk...

Leopoldina Zanetti Borzino (Italian 1826-1902). Born in Venice, Leopoldina was the niece of Daniel Manin, a hero statesman, who would become the President of San Marco, a revolutiona...

Lee Porzio, Untitled, Oil on Gesso Board with String, ca 1960s. Painting measures 32: high x 48" wide; with frame painting measures 33-1/2 high x 49-3/4" wide. Painting is in good vintage condition with new gold wood frame. LEE PORZIO (1913-2004) Lee was born in Paterson, New Jersey in September 1913 to Italian immigrant parents. Growing up in nearby Hawthorne, New Jersey, Lee met first husband Angelo di Benedetto, by then a well-known artist in his own right. They married in 1942 while Angelo was serving in the Air Force. In 1946, when he was discharged, they remained in Colorado, where he had been stationed, settling in Central City near Denver. Apparently, Angelo’s years-long obsession with turning a warehouse into a giant art studio created tension in their relationship ending in their divorce. By 1953, Lee had met Allen Ditson and moved to Arizona; they married in 1954. Once in Arizona, they began building their reputations as artists able to work in various media. Allen was a sculptor in metal and wood and a furniture designer. Lee was known for her skill as a graphic artist and could execute her designs in clay, oils, fabrics and fibers. Her work was sold at fine galleries nationwide. Together, their commissions include works of dramatic size and scope in the architectural and commercial field throughout the United States as well as intimate pieces for homes and small offices. Their work adorned numerous banks, offices, restaurants, churches and university buildings all over Phoenix, Arizona. Lee passed away in Paradise Valley, Arizona in 2004. Allen died in 2007. Exhibitions: - Syracuse Ceramic National Exhibition, 1948 - Art Institute of Chicago, 25th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

19th Century Flemish School Portrait of a Lady oil on cardboard painting, rectangular shape, with an overlaid oval gilt cardboard, set in a rectangular gilt frame. It depicts a middl...

Manner of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli - Italian, 1485-1576) An Oil on Canvas "Sleeping Cupid" within a gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reve...

Giuseppe Pitto (Italian 1857 - 1928) is often known for his paintings depicting pretty women in Italian street markets. This exuberantly painted scene i...

19th Century Dutch seascape by Hendrik Daniël Eckelboom. Signed lower left, Hendrik Daniël Eckelboom (Dutch, 1806-1847). Painted on a rectangular canvas, a fine example of Hendrik Daniël Eckelboom's intricate depiction of a busy Dutch harbor...

An antique painting of a (probably) black terrier on a chair. It is signed and dated lower left, Charles Van Den Eycken, 1896. It is painted on ...

An antique still life oil painting with fruit, pear, apple, grapes and peeled mandarin. In the background a wine bottle. The painting is signe...

Late 19th C. Eastern European Icon of St. Gregory. Painted on a panel composed of two boards joined together with two battens, top and bottom. The wood appears to be either pine or f...

Beautiful antique painting, a fruit still life against a dark blue background. The painting is painted on canvas, the canvas is pasted on wo...

'The Ace of Spades' by J. L. Rónay J. L. Rónay French /Hungarian, 19th century genre painter. A finely painted oil on canvas of an Italian beauty seated on a stool, with tossed p...

This antique framed oil painting was done by Bernard Pothast of the Netherlands in approximately 1920 in his realistic style. The painting is done on canvas and depicts an interior scene of a Dutch mother in period dress with her children. The painting is framed in its original gesso frame with a small brass name plate...

An oil painting of two rustic dogs fighting over a piece of food. It is painted on an oak panel. Signed top left. The signature is a bit faded, it's a monogram J.S. by Joseph Stevens. He often signed with a monogram. In a gilded frame frame with gesso moldings. Dimensions frame: 41 x 47 cm Dimensions painting: 17 x 23 cm. Joseph Stevens is the older brother of the very well-known artist Alfred Stevens. In the book 'The Belgian Art Book' by J. de Geest, it is written that Joseph Stevens has given a new dimension to painting animals. Joseph Stevens is an early representative of realism and social art. While Eugene Verboeckhoven has royal dogs pose on a beautifully embroidered cushion, Joseph Stevens already has an eye for the dark side of animal existence: exploitation by man, who in turn is a victim of society. His first successful painting, Brussels in the morning, shows how miserable dogs and poor people suffer the same fate. In the Sandman, Stevens shows a joint effort of man and dog, in which the viewer cannot ignore the social conditions: exhausting labor at dawn in some suburb. The gray sky and monochromy of the suburb add to the sinister atmosphere. Joseph Stevens was one of the first artists to take the urban proletariat as his subject. Stevens enjoys a very high reputation in his Parisian years. His brother Alfred writes: 'I am of this time, but you, Joseph, you are of the race, and thus you are of all times.' French critics agree. Stevens' works are a source of inspiration for the literature of the time. For example, Beaudelaire writes a poem about Stevens' dogs. Joseph Edouard STEVENS. Belgium, 1819-1892 Stevens was a painter, etcher and engraver. Brother of the gifted painter Afred Stevens. Education at the Academy in Brussels (1834-1835). Debuted at the Salon in Brussels in 1842. Continued his career in Paris in 1852. He was primarily the painter of canvases depicting domestic animals (dogs, monkeys, horses), sometimes in curious, even idiosyncratic situations, and far from romanticism. This realism, of which he was one of the pioneers, earned him the interest of critics and intellectuals. His approach was defined by this contemporary realism that eschewed idealized depictions of animals as heroic emblems of nobility. Rather, Stevens emphasized the ordinary animals of everyday life, with a particular focus on working dogs, stray dogs and all of the mutts that wandered the streets of Brussels. Museums and public collections, including' Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts. Stuttgart, State Gallery. King Leopold...

Greg Parker, American, b. 1952 Untitled, 1988 Graphite and oil on gessoed panel Signed and dated to verso. Geometric composition in monochromatic variations ending on a graphite...

Oil on board painting depicting a man on a high wheel bicycle, also known as Penny-farthing, with companion. Naive art style. Handwritten inscriptio...

A flower still life, painted with oil on hardboard. The painting has no signature, artist unknown. Beautiful composition of the flowers with a ceramic flowerpot in the back. The pain...

For sale a charming European late 18th, early 19th Century Georgian/Regency era oil on board portrait painting of a youthful person, possibly a scholar, believed to have been painted...

A fine Franco-German 19th century oil on canvas "Portrait of a Lady" depicting an 18th century young beauty posing with a profile gaze and cur...

Antique Original Oil on Canvas Painting by J. Goddard Depicting an abundance of fruit including a pineapple along with a ewer on a kitchen table. Signed ‘J. E. Goddard’ in the lowe...

Bohemian woman Budapest, Hungary 1925 by Bertha De Hellebranth. Fabulous period painting brings to life the bohemian intelligentsia of Europe in the 1920's. I believe the painting is of the artists sister Elena Maria De Hellebranth. Both sisters were accomplished artist and worked and exhibited together. See the photo of the sisters Elena on the left and Bertha on the right. Oil on canvas. In a period frame. Signed lower right. Inscribed on reverse. Provenance: label from Newman Galleries Philadelphia. BIOGRAPHY ; Bertha de Hellebranth and her sister Elena were born into a cultured upper-class family in Budapest, Bertha in 1899, Elena in 1897. Their father was a lawyer and their mother a student of Franz Liszt's last living pupil. Both sisters showed artistic potential early, beginning to paint at four or five years of age. Their parents encouraged them, and had the means to send them to the best art schools of the time. They studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and painted portraits of European nobility. As Patricia Fazekas points out, "Growing up in a family of privilege, they seemed to have unusual access to many illustrious people." So we should not be surprised to find among their subjects members of high society, such as Count Andrássy Gyula, the Russian-born Princess Baby Galitzine, and Admiral Horthy Miklós, the Regent. Later on, their subjects included American heiress Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess László Széchenyi), President Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter Paulina Longworth and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.Often, the sisters would paint the same subject at the same time, offering the sitter a choice of portraits. Most often, the sitter wanted both renditions.While Elena concentrated on working in oil and watercolor, Bertha used gouache and oil to achieve her effects. Elena gave lectures and workshops, was a writer and also wrote popular and ecclesiastical music, while Bertha also went in for sculpture and handicrafts.From the mid-thirties until World War II, Bertha and Elena divided their time between their home in Budapest and a home on the ocean at Ventnor, NJ. In 1925, they showed their work at the Nemzeti Szalon in Budapest, and in 1926, they had a joint exhibition of their portraits in the US. Both exhibited their work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and most major museums and galleries in the US. Bertha also had exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both Bertha and Elena were Fellows of the Royal Society of Art (London), and garnered numerous prizes. Bertha was awarded First Prize by the National Academy of the American Water Color Society one year, and the Grand Prize of the Audubon Society. She was one of the founders of the now defunct World League of Hungarian Artists Abroad (Külföldi Magyar Képz?m?vészek Világszövetsége), and received a Gold Medal from the Cleveland Árpád Akadémia in 1963. (Elena also received the Akadémia's gold medal in 1965.) Their work is found in museums and galleries too numerous to mention.The de Hellebranth sisters were devout Catholics, and this is evident in their many portraits of clerics...

Henri Alphonse Barnoin (1882-1940) studied with Emile Charles Dameron at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1912 he moved to the small community of Concarneau in Northwest France,...

Mid Century Modern abstract studio art. The Picasso inspired subject created with acrylic paint, foil and gesso. A vibrant and playful authentic mid century modern hand painted piece...

Oil painting on canvas, signed left under: Adrien Paul Duerinckx. It is a view of a village Lillo, near Antwerp. It is painted with a loose touch in bright colors. The frame is made ...

Outstanding 19th century Italian raised gilt gesso and oil painted panel. Very pretty images of leaves, flowers and urns. An exceptional piece!

A very handsome and well executed pair of 18th century Irish Georgian portraits. Both executed in pastels on paper laid down on canvas, set within th...

Beautiful, period 1920's winter scene oil painting in original frame. Exhibit label verso "Salmagundi Club" and framers label from New York...

Beautiful painting, oil on canvas, of a park-like landscape. The painting has a somewhat impressionistic touch and a lively color palette. The painting is signed bottom right 'Andre Jouault'. The painting is framed in a beautiful gold-coloured frame. André-Gustave JOUAULT, France, 1904-1987, was a painter, known for his frescoes of the chapel of the oratory...

Antique 19th century oil on board mountain painting with gilt frame.

A 19th century large oil on canvas painting, a mountain landscape signed and dated on the lower right Ed.Cohen Weimer, 1866, depicting a beautiful mountain landscape, an Italian Alps...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

Stef Duffy was born in New York, NY, and studied illustration, figurative painting, sculpture and ceramics at Parsons, FIT, Skidmore and NYAA. Drawing inspiration from both the ma...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

California based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores the realm of pattern and texture in his new series of works. At once ancient and modern in feel, the new wor...

Wonderful painting of nudes titled "Oreades". Oil paint on gesso relief. On board. Great colors and technique. Painted in an Art Deco style. It ...