Oil Painting on Tooled Leather of a Putti or Cherub Male Child from Spain 17th C

We were fortune enough to purchase a collection of Roland David’s oil paintings in France and although he is not known very well in the states, ...

Very well executed Painting of a European village street scene, without a soul on the street. This fine Painting gives us the absolute feeling of standing alone on the street in this...

Antique French Landscape oil painting, on linen, signed Baldy, in what appears to be its original gilt frame. Probably painted in...

Vintage mid-century modern still life oil painting on canvas by Vintage mid-century modern still life oil painting on canvas by Joseph Duv. He was born in Algeria in 1918 and at the ...

Wonderful vintage French painting of Picardy nestled within the rolling panoramic countryscape. This fine painting transports your soul to a much more pleasant and easier going time ...

Dressed in her best Victorianesque dress, this little girl must have been bored to death by the time this Painting was finished. Today, we are so touched with technology that we take...

A wonderful 17th century oil on copper painting from the Catalan region of Spain housed in a beautiful frame of painted wood. The painting depicts a saint or a religious man...

Painting "Three putti playing with a lion", Italy, late 17th century, oil on canvas, framed Picture size: height 63 cm, width 47.5 cm Frame size: height 78 cm, width 63 cm

Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of the Neapolitan school depicting Bacchanal of cherubs of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of great size a...

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...

A very beautiful early 17th century oil on board painting of Saint Eugene - The Archbishop Of Toledo, Spain. Wonderful brushwork and intricate detail....

A 17th century Spanish oil painting on canvas depicting a queen witting on a throne with a crown on her head wearing an elaborate costume in brown Gray Red and Beige. She is wearing ...