Ölgemälde LOUIS GARTNER "Frauen am Strand" um 1880

Öl auf Leinwand, um 1850, unrestauriert, in der Leinwand eine Beschädigung links oben in den Wolken, diese rückseitig mit Leinwand überklebt und unsachgemäß restauriert. Unten recht...

Genretypische idyllische, idealisierte Darstellung eine Familie in ihrer Wohnstube. Qualitätvolle Malerei, Öl auf Leinwand, LW-Größe xxxxx cm, Rahmenmaß xxxxx cm. (Die Maße werden ...

Ölgemälde auf Leinwand, doubliert, im Stil der Lombardischen Schule, 18. Jahrhundert Das Gemälde ist betitelt: "Amymon wehrt sich gegen die Annäherungsversuche eines Satyrs". Es ha...

Neoklassizistische mythologische Szene "Sappho, Phaon und Cupid" nach Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), gemalt wohl um 1850. Das Original im Hermitage Museum (The State Hermitage Muse...

Darstellung des Heiligen Johannes des Evangelisten um 1620. Entsprechend der Ikonographie wird der Heilige mit einer Gänsefeder zwischen den Fingern, einem Buch und einem schwarzen A...

Zeittypische Bronzeskulptur der 50er Jahre, 2 Fußballspieler, die um einen Ball kämpfen, darstellend. Starke dynamische Darstellung in der zeittypischen Formensprache der Mid-Century...

Signed lower right. Labels on the stretcher, dated 1962. Portrait of three girls dressed in shorts standing on a sidewalk and chatting. The artist is k...

An American painter, born in Newport, RI, Edith Bozyan was awarded a scholarship to the Art Association in 1917, continued her life as a teacher and antiques dealer. This is an abstr...

A fresh Optic Stripe painting by Contemporary Artist William Betts. Signed, dated 2007 and titled on verso. Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC label on vers...

K.P.M Painting on Porcelain signed M. Ring and Am Ramin, circa 1837-1844, Mid-19th Century. Red headed woman reclining in chair, mauve and purple tones, the pink undertones are the t...

Watercolor of an urn, done in Paris by Jansen in the 1880s.

ABOUT An original 19th century Mexican folk retablo. Oil paint on tin. Subject unknown. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1880. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oil Paint on Tin. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS H 14 in. W 10 in. HISTORY Retablos, better known as 'laminas' in Mexico, are small oil paintings on tin, wood and sometimes copper which were used in home altars to venerate the almost infinite number of Catholic saints. The literal translation for 'retablo' is 'behind the altar.' This unique genre of art, deeply rooted in European history, was brought to Mexico with the arrival of the Spanish and then ultimately adopted by New World mestizo natives to become what is known today as the Mexican folk retablo. The retablo was an art form that flourished in post conquest Mexico and then ultimately, with the introduction of inexpensive mediums such as tin, reached its pinnacle of popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century. With some exceptions, mostly untrained artists from the provinces worked to produce and reproduce these sacred images; some subjects painted more prolifically than others. A typical "retablero" may have reproduced the same image hundreds, if not thousands of times in his or her career. These oil paintings were sold to devout believers who displayed them in home altars to honor their patron saints. There are virtually hundreds of saints, each invoked to remedy a different situation. "San Ysidro Labrador," the patron saint of farmers, is venerated for good weather...