European Paintings

Finely painted in an Italian palette with mythological and Roman battle scenes, each border rim painted with yellow enamel. With a large carved ebony...

A set of three hand painted wooden plaques, each featuring a religious portrait within a decorative frame. The center panel is a portrait of a man with shoulder length hair and a be...

The painting is very fine work with the subject of a beautiful Woman as the vestal virgin. The face is exquisite and the Costume draping is well done. The frame is in great conditio...

Large-format painting of a mythological scene with references to Triton and other sea creatures as well as male nude figures by Aksel Jorgensen (1887 Copenhagen - 1957, ibid.). The p...

Nicely painted with cows by a stream with building in landscape background. Signed and dated lower left.

Our Lady of Valvanera, oil on copper. Spain, 17th century. Height: 20 cm - Width: 14.4 cm. Certificate of Govaert, 1986. Our Lady of Valvanera The Virgin of Valvanera is a Marian devotion from the Sierra de la Demanda, in La Rioja (Spain), a community of which she is the patron saint and one of the patron saints of the autonomous communities of Spain. The current image is a carving considered to be early Romanesque, from the end of the 11th century AD or beginning of the 12th century AD. The Catholic Church commemorates the feast of the devotion on September 8. The appearance of the image is recounted in the Historia Latina, written in 1419 by Rodrigo de...

The Reader by Jean-Honorè Fragonard Print on Canvas Reproduction. Measures: Height 67 cm Width 58 cm Print on canvas In good conservative condition, present signs of time du...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, 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 Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 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...

Painting, Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, Jean Dufy (1888 - 1964), oil on canvas, 1927, signed and dated Jean Dufy was born in Le Havre, France, into an extremely artistically t...

This expressive oil on canvas captures the timeless charm of Montmartre, one of Paris’s most iconic and romantic neighborhoods. Signed “Dalian” and dated 1968 in the lower right corn...

An Old master manner mixed media painting on paper depicting an interior genre scene in a castle. The painting is adorned with a hand painting frame featuring animal, floral, foliage...

Our Stock # 24760 This is an antique riverside painting. A Scottish, oil on canvas landscape in gilt frame, dating to the late 19th century, circa 1900. Appealing colour and subjec...

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian, (1859–1933) Original portrait of Anna Maria Borghese by Vittorio Matteo Corcos. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Ex-Sot...

Beautiful oil painting on panel by the great Spanish artist Martin Rebollo Tomas (Granada, 12.5.1858 - Madrid, 7.2.1919). Like most artists, he came to Italy, particularly Rome, for ...

Late 19th Century European Old Master Style Landscape Oil on board painting Measures: 18" H, 15" W, 2" D.

A unique oil on canvas painting that is so perfectly executed that it almost appears to be a machine made print. However, it is not. Instead it's a work that is masterfully painted w...

18th century Giacomo Guardi old master painting of Venetian Lagoon. Provenance. Old master painting in oil on canvas by the artist Giacomo Guardi (1764...

A 19th century oil painting of Galileo, after the antique by Justus Sustermans in 1636. In British School style, this portrait displays the renowned characters wise expression, wide...

Yasse Tabuchi Modern ink drawing Signed and dated “Tabuchi 65” In the back “Tabuchi 1965” Yasse Tabuchi studied art history at the University of Arts of...

This well executed original oil painting on wood panel was done by Christian Sell the Younger in circa 1880 in his realistic style. The painting portrays soldiers standing and on hor...

"The Tears of Saint Peter", Follower Domenikos Theotokopoulos- El Greco 19th Century El Greco Museum. Toledo, Castilla la Mancha, Spain. Saint Peter's Tears El Greco (1541-1614) Oil...

HERMANN DAVID SALOMON CORRODI Italian, 1844-1905 Bucolic Landscape of Shepherds Caring for an Injured Lamb (1868) Oil on canvas signed lower left "H. Corrodi Roma 68" Item # C104...

A Beautiful Italian Still Life oil painting on old canvas of a brass urn holding a bouquet of assorted flowers set on a ledge. 18th or ...

Max Finné (German, c.1880-c.1960) A Portrait of the Hanseatic merchant Georg Giese, copied from the original of Hans Holbein the Younger by Max Finné, 1922-23. signed lower left: M...

A Massive painting After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640). "The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" - 19th century, Continental school oil on canvas painting, signed initials E...

An original impressionist oil on canvas, circa 1920, by listed Hungarian artist Witman Etelka Vizkeleti (1882-1962), signed lower right. Depicts a vibrant marketplace scene with two ...

Gorgeous watercolor painting of beautiful flowers artist signed Paul de Longpre', an American and French artist. This artist lived from 1855-1911. Paul was known as a watercolor arti...

A beautiful antique work of art by the Dutch painter Corneille Henri Dee. The painting shows an abundance of floral splendor, wisteria and delphinium. Watercolor on paper. Made aro...

View of Lake Lucerne in the Swiss Alps Likely by the artist August Wilhelm Boesen, with the estimated date 1850. Oil on panel. Requires light surface cleaning. Minor craquelure. Thi...

Architectural oil painting on canvas of Heydon Hall executed in a rustic naive style with contrived aging and presented in a maple frame. Signed Dan Dunton.

Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas Matterhorn Artwork By unknown artist, from France In fair condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiful patina

Great Italian painting from the second half of the 16th century. Oil on canvas painting depicting a Holy Family from the Tuscan school of remarkable pictorial quality. We find the typical stylistic features of the Renaissance with a wonderful pyramidal composition, a refined chromatic palette and particular attention to the drapery. In the center is the Madonna with the baby Jesus in her arms who reaches out toward Saint John the Baptist with a lamb at his side, a symbol of Christ's sacrifice. At the top left we see Saint Joseph sleeping...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas famework depicting a seascape with characters and architectures of good pictorial quality. Nice size painting and pleasa...

This refined 1840s antique portrait painting presents a Dutch gentleman of notable status, dressed in a crisp white shirt with high standing collars and a black silk necktie. A gold ...

Pair of 18th Century Very Large Oil on Canvas Panels framed Wall mount Art LA CA . Very RARE 18th century very large and impressive pair of French / Continental painted oil on canvas...

Fredrick Kammeyer, Muenchen (1873 - 1941) Exact date of painting unknown. There is extensive chipping to thick paint on the frame, but the Canvas remains undamaged. Frame W 37 x H...

Peder Brøndum Sørensen (1931-2003), Danish painter. Oil on canvas. "Figures and Houses by the Sea." Modernist motif. 1972. Signed. In perfect condition. Dimensions: 41 cm x 31 cm. T...

A monumental 18th century Oil On Canvas Painting from Lucca, Italy. Delightful soft color and hues with handsome cracquelure. The painting will be the statement of its surrounding.

Late 18th to Early 19th Century Portrait of a Sea Captain, by Charles Delin (Netherlands: 1756-1818), circa 1810, a fine period oil on canvas quarter-length portrait of Captain Mellens, an elegant gentleman in navy blue woolen double breasted sea coat, with high starched collar shirt and neck cloth, unsigned; retains an old collection label on the reverse identifying the artist and subject. The painting remains in fine condition, in its original carved and gilded frame. Although identified by name, we could not find any additional information on the sitter. The name and clothing indicates that the captain was American or English. The artist Charles Delin was highly regarded in his day and specialized in sea captain portraits...

This oil on canvas painting was created in Italy, circa 1920. Set inside the original carved gilt frame, this painting depicts a European city scene bustling with people walking down...

Very fine large scale 19th century Italian school painting of a landscape scene with birds. So pretty and framed in a lovely gold...

"La Fée aux Griffons" (The Fairy with Griffins) by René Buthaud, after the original by Gustave Moreau. Artist Bio: Rene Buthaud was seen as the most accomplished and important Frenc...

18th Century Italian Framed Pietra Dura Stone Plaque. Plaque features a bouquet of flowers and fauna in yellow, pink, and green on black background. The detailed blooming floral arr...

Painted in the manner of Leon Cortes or Eugene Galien Laloue, these gouache on canvas paintings were created in Paris, France, circa 1900. The highly detailed scenes are set inside carved gilt frames with a protecting glass on top. One of the paintings depicts "Les Grands Boulevards," the other shows "La Place de la Madeleine," both of which are well-known Paris landmarks. From the first motor cars to the Victorian costume...

Brilliantly painted in tones of turquoise, Mediterranean blue, aqua, sky blue and a range of rich browns, tans and grays, this view of three young men bathing...

Oil painting on canvas in its original frame representing a Parisian quarter with a church on the background. Painted by the Italian artist Professor Piero Solavaggione (Carmagnola (...

This fantastic view of a great battle waged by a phalanx of nude male soldiers -- probably a scene from Sweden or France -- was painted by Nils Wedel, an important Swedish painter st...

A well executed miniature of Marie Antionette from the late 19th century after an original portrait by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842). Thi...

Early to mid 20th century French oil painting on canvas of flowers in a vase. Really beautifully painted early 20th century still life signed by artist. Not framed just stretched ...

Dimensions with frame : Height : 116 cm (45.7 in.) ; Width : 144 cm (56.7 in.) Dimensions without frame : Height : 85 cm (33.5 in.) ; Width : 118 cm (46.5 in.) Atrium with a rich Pompeian decor in which a young woman lying on a bed is playing with a sparrow, not paying attention to the man sat at her feet. This painting is a major work of art of C. G. Brun, well-know for the precision of his technic, by the elegance of its composition, the pureness of the colors, the refinement of the touch and the expressivity of the characters. This rare intimist scene in a interior decorated in the Pompeian style perfectly illustrates the taste of the time for the discovery of the villas of Pompei, thanks to the archeological excavations of the 18th century and the books published about them. To arrange its interiors based on the models of the Pompeian villas is then a trend that the most important people of that time will follow, as the Prince Napoléon, cousin of the Emperor Napoléon III, who orders the construction of a splendid Pompeian villa on the Avenue Montaigne, of which nothing remains but a few pictures and a painting by Gustave Boulanger, dated 1861 and called Répétition du « Joueur de flûte » et de la « Femme de Diomède » chez le Prince Napoléon. This painting illustrates the poem « Fletus passeris Lesbiae » from the collection « Carmina » written by Catulle (87-54 av. J.-C.) : in his work, the author, in love with Lesbie, a married woman living in Rome, puts on a show a sparrow as the main center of interest of its mistress who neglects her suitor. This theme has been represented many times in painting, like the version by Raphaël Poggi exposed at the Salon of 1865, or Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1866 or Edward Poynter in 1907. Painting exposed, as reference number 467, at the Salon of 1861 on the picture rail of the Palais des Champs-Elysées Charles Guillaume Brun, born in Montpellier in 1825 and died in Paris in 1908, was registered in 1847 at the Paris Beaux-Arts school, where he studied under the direction of François- Edouard Picot (1786-1868) and of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). His participation in the Paris Salon began in 1851 with genre subjects (Young girl doing her morning prayer), but as soon as 1853, he regularly sent Orientalist scenes, located in Algeria (Prayer in 1859, Rendez-vous in Constantine in 1861, Moorish woman...

Large original oil on canvas painting of the crucifixion of Christ hanging on the cross, with his Mother Mary and two other female figures. Unframed, just over 4.5' tall. Beautifully...

GUIDO HAMPE German, 1839-1902 Alpine Landscape with Waterfall (1881) Oil on canvas signed lower right "G. Hampe '81" Item # 106QJY03C An incredibly powerful Romantic landscape of the Alpine mountains with a waterfall cascading into a valley, the river pouring over the rocks and curving around the bend, flowing past a pair of figures seated on a grassy noll with a transcendant unearthly lighting that creates a focal point of the couple. It is as if the clouds have opened up just to shine light on them, emphasizing the glorious day the man and woman are experiencing on this leisurely hike through nature. Painted by Guido Hampe in 1881, the painting was acquired by Charles S. Shultz, president of the Hoboken Bank in Montclair, New Jersey where it remained in his home until its deaccession from the home in 2021. The home was particularly interesting for its total originality, the interior looking almost identical throughout its entire life to how it appeared at its inception in 1896. Enclosed in the collection of images is a shot of the painting in situ over the living room fireplace as captured by the Montclair Magazine article on the home in 2020. The work is signed in his typical script lower right "G. Hampe / 81". It remains housed in the original and substantial giltwood frame, fully restored and a very powerful presentation. An article on the Charles S. Schultz home can be found by clicking here. Artist Listings & Bibliography: *. E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. VI, Gründ, 2006, p. 1105 Measurements: 32 1/4" H x 42 1/2" W [canvas]; 48 1/2" H x 58 5/8" W x 5 1/4" D [frame] Condition Report: A fine presentation ready to place: frame with minor wear/abrasion/loss; canvas with trace grime in the mountain tops and sky and all-over moderate craquelure. Surface bright and vibrant. Retains the original frame that we have had professionally restored with trace regilding and inpainting, some elements recreated; the restoration has preserved the antique nature of the frame and all restoration has been toned to match the aged aesthetic of the frame. Painting was acquired with its apparently first surface, an incredibly thick grime layer that significantly obscured the image - this was likely due to its placement above the fireplace in the Charles Shultz...

Christian Sell (August 14, 1831, Altona, Germany - April 21, 1883, Düsseldorf, Germany) Military scene, fine quality Unrestored Oil painting on panel 18 x 24.2 cm

By repute the Earl of Norwich. Seated with attendant tending to his scarf. In a French period empire giltwood frame.

French Trompe L’oeil painting, Frederic Chopin Musical Theme Incredibly detailed illusionistic painting of a collection of music paraphernalia relat...

Peder Brøndum Sørensen (1931-2003), Danish painter. Oil on canvas. "Figure by Houses and Sea". 1977. Signed. In perfect condition. Dimensions: 51 cm x 41 cm. Total with frame: 69 cm ...

Portrait of a man with a twisted moustache, in the typical dark suit of the Art Nouveau era of the end of the 19th century. Gilt tablet frame, with floral decorations. Tempera techn...

19th century Italian School oil on canvas of Madonna and child. Gilt frame.