European Paintings

A wonderful 1960s Parisian oil painting, a Tourist Street Souvenir, by artist J. de P. of the Regatta at Argenteuil originally by Claude Monet. I...

This is an original oil on canvas painting by Danish artist Eiler Sørensen (1869-1953). Eiler Sørensen was a renowned artist known for his landscape paintings and motives from the e...

Decorate a study or a den with this antique chicken painting composition. Created in Belgium circa 1890, and set in the original thick carved giltwood frame, this large painting depi...

Gorgeous moody landscape by listed artist, Hermann Herzog, famous for his landscapes and seascapes as well as many views of Norway. Canvas sze 35 x 27.5 Beautiful giltwood frame. ...

Francesco Vinea portrait of a woman Portrait of Empire taste Work by painter Francesco Vinea ( Forli 1845- Florence 1902). Oil on panel, depicting a young woman in Empire style in re...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

The Antique Painting, Vase Of Flowers paintings on canvas depicts a beautiful bouquet of flowers with Dahlias, Asters and Chrysanthemums above a table. The flowers are gathered in a...

Early 19th Century Children’s Portraits Oil on Canvas, A Pair Charming pair of Danish Early 19th Century paintings oil on canvas. Thes...

Beautiful nude study of a sitting woman. Oil on board by the Danish artist Christian Aabye Tage. Signed but not dated. In great vintage condition with signs of age related wear...

Mid-Century 20th Century Oil Painting of Flowers in Vase by Gerald Cooper (1898-1975). Lovely painting of poppies, hibiscus, Nicotiana an...

19th Century Pastel - Leda And The Swan - French School Circa 1820-1840 Elegant pastel on paper depicting Leda and the swan, inspired by the classical myth in which Zeus transforms ...

Large wall painting "The Ways Of The Red October" October Revolution, Kandt, DDR Manfred Kandt (1922-1992) Oversized mural "Ways of Red October" created...

PRESENTING A HIGHLY DESIRABLE piece of Euro Art, namely ‘The Farmer’s Children’, oil on canvas in giltwood frame, after the famous original painting by Belgian Artist, Theodore Gerard...

Gennaro Villani (1885-1948) Amalfi Coast, oil on canvas in painted and gilt frame, signed lower left. Italy, circa 1920. Dimensions: 27" W x 23" H x 1.25" D; sight 24.5" W x 21" H.

Antique French painting from 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, depicting landscape with ruins and characters of good pictorial quality. Wood and plaster frame of the 20th century...

Painting with Summerly High Mountain Landscape ca. 1900s A beautiful impressionist oil painting depicting a summerly high mountain landscape with a mountain hut and peasant woman in...

A sun-drenched provençal landscape is brought vividly to life in this large 20th century post- impressionist style oil-on-canvas. Undulating hills in the distance provide an evocativ...

Copy of a painting in the English Neo Classic style titled "A Roman Lady" showing portrait of woman in classical garb

Édouard Righetti (1924–2001), a French painter and printmaker born in Menton, was known for his expressive and colorful works that often depicted animals, landscapes, and urban scenes. His 1999 oil painting Pigeon...

Alpine Landscape Oil Painting with Tyrolean Mountain Hut A large vintage landscape painting enclosed in an ornate, gold-colored frame. Painted on canvas with pastell colors. The pai...

Icon of Ezekiel painted in egg tempera on a wood panel. The image is of Ezekiel's ascension to heaven. Russian/Ukrainian, 1700's.

A 17th Century baroque painting of a sideview of Jesus Christ Salvator Mundi or Saviour of the World in sfumato Saint Savior of the World, a title given to Christ on the Catholic f...

Painted in England circa 1920, this half-moon shaped livestock portrait depicts a standing cow rendered in a naturalistic style, positioned against a backdrop of verdant pasture and ...

Danish oil painting - stilleben, painting on canvas - approx. The 1960s. The style is modernistic and the motive is a vase with red flowers in it, a yellow bowl and some coconuts on...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Antique French painting Impressionist oil painting "Landscape with flowering heather" executed by Gaston Anglade in the late 1800s.The author was born on September 29,1854 in Bordea...

A half-length portrait of a young lady, her costume à la Turque and wearing a double strand of large and lustrous pearls. She is deep in somewhat pensive thought, her right hand resting lightly against her chin, her left hand gently clasping the neck of a pottery flask...

Otto Pilny (Swiss, 1866-1936) A very fine orientalist oil on canvas "The Slave Market", depicting a desert scene with the offering of two female slaves. Signed and Dated (l/r): Otto Pilny, 1910. Canvas height: 31 1/2 inches (80 cm). Canvas width: 47 1/4 inches (120 cm). Frame height: 37 inches (94 cm). Frame width: 52 inches (132.1 cm). Previously offered at Christie's New York, 19th Century European Art, Sale 2521 on October 12, 2011, Lot 84. Latest Otto Pilny Sale: Christie's London - The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection on 30 March 2021 - Lot 49 "Dance in the Desert" was sold for £100,800 ($138,500) There is not that much information about Otto Pilny who began his artistic education in Prague. Pilny also lived in Vienna and ended up settling in Zurich. Just like Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935), Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932), and Carl Leopold Müller (1834-1892), Pilny was encouraged to travel abroad. During his two trips to Egypt, a favorite destination of the Austro-Hungarian school, the first one in 1889 and later en 1892, he acquired the taste of painting Orientalist scenes of Middle Eastern landscapes...

Set of Four Panels Decorated with Allegories of Arts France Circa 1865 Height. : 180 cm (70,9 in.) ; Width : 63,5 cm (25 in.) ; Depth : 12 cm (4,7 in.) Set of four large painted panels, in carved and gilded wood. The upper part of each panel is decorated with allegories of the arts, representing music...

This English oil on canvas painting, dated 1884, captures the quiet elegance of a white horse standing in a dimly lit stable interior. Painted with rich tonal contrasts and an eye fo...

A fine collection of Five original silhouette portrait miniatures by the Miniaturist painter Dorothy Turton ( 1900 to 1990s). These are all hand painted...

Beautifully rendered large still life of violin and books on a desk in warm light, with painterly effect. Signed Czene Apatfalvi. János Apátfalvi Czene (1904-1984) Canvas 24 x 36 ...

Surrealist Artwork Oil on Canvas by British Artist John Voss "Stone Columns" John Voss was a British surrealist artist, who worked primarily in oils on canvas. Elected to the Leices...

ART NOUVEAU France 1899 Very rare gouache depicting flowers in the full Art Nouveau spirit. Very close and typical to Henry Van De Velde Works H.25"1/2 x w.23"1/2 with mat H.20...

Oil Painting Ladies on Zinc Panel 19th C Victorian A continental zinc metal painted panel of two well attired ladies gathering yarns of wool into small bundles in period gilt frame...

Large original oil on canvas painting of Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well (based on Biblical passage from John 4). Just under 7' tall with frame. Has craquelure, retouches ...

Flemish school of the 16th century Allegory of Africa
After The Allegories of the Continents by Maerten de Vos (engraving by Adriaen Collaert)
 Oil on copper
 Inscription: "Giulio Ro...

2 portraits, late 18th century, oil on board.

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...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Italian painting from 1600 Banquet with Figures Memento Mori by Giovanni Martinelli, titled Death Comes to the Banquet Table, vanitas circa 1635. The oil-on-canvas painting is inspi...

19th Century Italian Painting of The Virgin of the Fish done in the Purisimo Style. Revivalist piece of a Raphael Painting. The Virgin Mary & baby Jesus with Saint Jerome and Arc Angel...

Excelente obra de temática costumbrista donde podemos observar una conversación entre bellas telas, instrumentos y armas firmado por el pintor Sánchez. Dimensiones marco: 59 x 49 cm ...

This is an exquisite Meissen cabinet plate painted with a large beautiful flower bouquet. The Meissen plate has a very intricate reticulated or ...

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 ...

Aythamy Armas painting. Vertical Format. Mixed technic on canvas. Signed by the artist. Circa 2022, Spain. Very good condition. Bachelor of fine ar...

A pair of antique frames (blackened limewood) , from the late 19th century, featuring a set of 12 color illustrations of French women's fashion from 1819 to 1830. A first frame unde...

Édouard Righetti (1924–2001), a French painter and printmaker from Menton, was celebrated for his expressive and textured depictions of animals and nature. His 1999 oil painting *Le ...

Fine 18th century portrait of a lady, unsigned, circa 1750, Sweden. (reframed, oil on canvas) According to old frame painted by Johan Horner (...

Handpainted bamboo umbrella. By unknown artist, circa 1950 In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina. Materials: ...

Original geometric abstract painting from the 1950s, composed of layered angular forms in blue, ochre, and pale pink, set against a bold red background. The work has a strong sense o...

Decorate an office or study with this large antique oil on canvas painting. Created in France circa 1890, and signed by French artist, E. Laval, the artwork is set in the original ca...

A hand painted Chinoiserie design in oil on rice paper, mounted on board. Depicting village figures in a scene with buildings, mountains, and greenery. The design is based on an exam...

Swedish artist. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape, 1980s. The canvas measures: 73 x 49 cm. The frame measures: 1 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

Original oil on canvas portrait painting of two putti with lovely cherub faces crowned by wings. Canvas shows extensive craquelure, long vertical and horizontal cracks, old repairs,...

A Late 17th Century Painting Depicting A Cavalry Battle Height: 115 cm Width: 75 cm Depth: 6 cm. Provenance: Private Australian Collection.

Ó/L “Peace and the arts are worth more than the brutal glory of weapons”, Philippe Swyncop, 1903 – Belgium, Flemish School Exquisite oil on canvas si...

Italian Renaissance style (modern) oil painting of Madonna & Child in antique gold carved frame

A beautiful antique oil painting by the Dutch painter Laurens Plas. The painting shows a romantic landscape of sheep in the meadow. A beautiful performance with a beautiful display o...

William Scharff, painting. "Nude Woman". Modernist painting, Danish art. Signed. Measurements without frame/with frame (cm): H 63/75, W 52/63.