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Returnable Items Only
Rare 18th Century Piedmont Bamboo Art of Fete Galante
Located in Budapest, HU
Fete Galante Scene from 18th century Piedmont-School.
Bamboo inlay collage on canvas in carved antique frame.
Net size: 40 x 49 cm
Size with frame: 53 x 61.5 cm
Category
Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Bamboo
French 18th Century Oil on Copper Painting in Its Original Giltwood Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional French 18th century oil on copper painting in its original giltwood frame. The wonderfully executed painting depicts a beauti...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Antique Painting the Sacrifice 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, The sacrifice, of good pictorial quality. Painting of good size and pleasant furn...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil Painting On Canvas Depicting Agonizing
Located in Firenze, IT
Oil painting on canvas depicting Christ and the Madonna consoling a dying man, Emilian school, 17th century.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Early 18th Century 'Summer Allegory', Oil on Canvas
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a winged putto with a tree background, grape branches and fruit.
Within a molded frame in gilded wood, typical manufacture attributable to...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Antique Still Life painting with Copper Crockery, Bottle and Majolica
Located in Brescia, IT
Still life with copper crockery, bottle and majolica.
Emilian school, 18th century
On the top of a table there are some copper crockery for daily use, an excellently painted gl...
Category
Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Winter Farmyard, 18th Century Oil on Canvas, Figures in Snow Landscape
Located in Prato, IT
A wonderfully painted oil on canvas by George Morland depicting a moment of life in a cottage on a snowy winter day. Signed lower right.
George Morland (26 June 1763 – 29 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers and gypsies; and rich, textured landscapes informed by Dutch Golden Age painting...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Antique Flemmish Rococo Arcadia Scene, Jan Frans Beschey, 18th Century
Located in Budapest, HU
Exquisite antique Arcadia Scene with Shepherds, by flemmish painter Jan Frans Beschey (Antwerp, 1717-1786).
Signed bottom left: J. F. Beschey
In antique carved wood frame.
Net siz...
Category
Belgian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Antique 17th Century Madonna with Child Carlo Maratta 'School' Oil on Canvas
Located in Doha, QA
This magnificent Madonna and Child belongs to an Itlalian (Roman) school of painting and could be a masterpiece of a Carlo Maratta /Maratti (1625-1713) school. Maratta's style of Bar...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Lying Female Figure Painting by Giovanni Domenico Molinari
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793)
Lying Female figure
Oil on canvas, cm 46 x. 31 - With frame, cm 56 x 42
The present painting is connected by style and treated subject, in this case a young girl lying in an idyllic landscape, to the production of small pictures of pastoral subject of the Piedmontese painter Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793).
Molinare was born in Caresana (Vercelli) on 19 July 1721 but after losing both his parents he moved to Turin. Here he became, from 1736, a pupil of the Academy of Drawing founded by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont (Turin, 4 July 1694 - Turin, 21 June 1766) where he remained as a pensioner until December 1755. Molinari was immediately engaged in the translation of the master’s sketches on cardboard used for the Regia manufacture of tapestries. His early success on the Turin art scene is confirmed by the fact that he joined the Compagnia di San Luca in 1756.
In 1751 he married Margherita Peiroleri, whose brothers Pietro (engraver) and Nicolò (painter) also attended the school. Remained widower count two other marriages first with Lucrezia Elisabetta Burzio and then in 1770 with Domenica Maria Ferrero.
On the death of the master in 1766 Molinari, considered by his contemporaries to be the most faithful interpreter of the master and for his elegant and Arcadian style, which clearly interprets the aesthetic taste of the court, was called to finish the works that remained unfinished, such as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Moncalieri depicting the Assumption venerated by Blessed Bernard of Baden and Saint Anthony. Molinari was also well praised by critics and Abbot Lanzi highlighted the quality of the production of historical and mythological subject for the rigorous post-marattesco classicism.
In Turin he worked for Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy as a portrait painter, executing for him eleven canvases (between 1774 and 1775), but, since 1745, he also supplied tapestry cartoons to the local Fabbrica, of which, in 1766, he became director.
The production of paintings of sacred subjects is also lively, especially used in the decoration of the churches of the capital as the Assumption for the Hotel of Virtue and San Pietro Regalado and San Benedetto il Moro for Santa Maria degli Angeli ( Torino) He also painted tempera and oil cartoons for the same church, on the occasion of the beatification of Pacifico da San Severino (1787) and, for that of San Francesco di Paola, when Gaspare de Bono...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique 18th Century Madonna in Sorrow Oil on Canvas, Florentine School
Located in Doha, QA
This antique stunning portrait of Madonna in Sorrow came out from a Palazzo in Florence and an absolute eye catcher. The colors and details are incredible and very typical for an Ita...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mid 18th Century, Giovanni Battista Salvi 'Sassoferrato' School, Maternity
Located in Firenze, FI
Large oil painting on canvas depicting the Madonna with Child and San Giovannino within a carved and gilded wooden frame.
The subject is particular as it leaves the classic canons of the representation of Maternity by presenting a Madonna without a halo.
Attributable to the School of Giovanni Battista Salvi...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Fine Museum Quality Large Antique 18th Century Greek Orthodox Icon, Pentecost
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional, museum quality very large 18th century Greek icon of the Pentecost.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, primed with gesso.
Attributed to Mount Athos...
Category
Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood
Benjamin West Oil on Canvas Painting, "St. John" Putto with Lamb, 18th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
Benjamin West Oil on Canvas Painting, "St. John" Putto with Lamb, 18th Century
The painting depicts a putto praying with a lamb near him towards the lower...
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Roman School Representing a View of Rome Fixing the Ponte Rotto
Located in BORDEAUX, FR
Delightful 18th century Roman school representing a view of Rome fixing the "ponte Rotto". Painted in an architectural style of the best craftsmanship, this charming animated composi...
Category
Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Spanish Colonial, Virgin Mary, Original O/C Painting, XVIII Century
Located in New York, NY
Spanish Colonial
Virgin Mary
Original Oil on Canvas Painting
XVIII Century
DETAILS
Original period frame.
PAINTING DIMENSIONS
Height: 17.5 inches
Width: 12.75 inches
...
Category
Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Late 18th Century Oil on Canvas, 'Betzebea Bathing in the River', Louis XVI
Located in Firenze, FI
Oil on canvas depicting the mythological scene of Bezzebea bathing. Gorgeous woman wife of one of King David's army commanders, the latter, seeing her at the bath, fell madly in love...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Pair of Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'French' Botanical Engravings, 18th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
Pair of Pierre Joseph Buchoz (French) Botanical Engravings, 18th century
Floral prints from "Histoire Universelle Du Regne Vegetal", Published in Paris, 1775-1778. Artist signed "...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paper
Adoration of the Shepherds, French School, Oil on Canvas, 18th Century, Framed
Located in Lisboa, PT
Adoration of the Shepherds, French School. Oil on canvas, 18th Century. Framed.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
17th Century Tibetan Thangka Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
An incredible and rare 17th century (Ming Dynasty) Tibetan Thangka depicting the Medicine Buddha seated on a lotus throne with an alms bowl in one hand, and his other hand with outstretched fingers touching the ground, feeling the pulse of the Earth. The Buddha is surrounded by dozens of monks seated...
Category
Tibetan Tibetan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Linen, Paint
Grand Tour, Landscape of the Roman Countryside with Architecture and Characters
Located in Brescia, IT
Grand tour - Landscape of the Roman countryside with architecture and characters
Oil painting on canvas
Rome 18th century
Measurements: 27 x 33 - 43.5 x 50.5 cm (with frame)...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Neoclassical Painting, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the end of the 18th century. Neoclassical artwork, oil on canvas, depicting a Roman historical subject of good picto...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Original Oil on Canvas, Painting of Italian Village, Italian School 1700s
Located in Round Top, TX
Large original oil on canvas painting of Italian village with mountains in background, 6' long (measured at frame).
Italian school circa 1700s.
Impressive in Size and detail this w...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
17th Century Live Nature Pair of Paintings Oil on Canvas Flemish School
Located in Milan, IT
Flemish School, 17th century
Live nature couple with animals
Measures: Oil on canvas, cm 25 x 35 - With frame cm 37 x 48
The pair of canvases in question depicts two excited...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of Lady with a Fan, Framed Oval, 18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Oval portrait of a lady of quality, wearing rich jewelry and clothes, a fan in her hand.
Good condition, old restorations, relined, some wear to the frame.
18th century.
Dim...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th Century, French Painting with Landscape with Ruins
Located in IT
18th century, French Painting with Landscape with Ruins
Measures: frame cm L 165 x H 95 x P 10; canvas cm L 142 x H 71
This painting depicti...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Chinese Watercolor 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Chinese Watercolor 16th century
Ancient Chinese watercolor from the 16th century framed after the beginning of 1900. Total measures: 85x52x6 cm a...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paper
Salome Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist, 17th Century Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Salome receiving the head of Saint John the Baptist
17th century painting
Frame dimensions : 115 x 133 x 6 cm.
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
French Gold Leaf Framed Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
This 18th century painting, signed by L.S. VERHEYDER, showcases a scene of a man and a horse in a field, framed in a luxurious gold leaf frame with d...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Period Flemish Interior Scene Picture
Located in Roma, IT
Interesting Flemish painting representing a characteristic tavern interior scene with characters intent on playing cards.
Oil on canvas in a round shape.
The frame is an original gil...
Category
Dutch International Style Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, Oil Painting on Canvas 18th century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, Oil Painting on Canvas 18th century
An antique oil painting depicting the sacred heart of Jesus. Oil on canvas with p...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)
Plum Tree and Birds
Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
In this evocative ink work spread over a six-panel folding screen, we see the consummation of the elegance and refinement of the Edo Kano school. This 17th century screen is a rare surviving example of a large-scale bird and flower painting by Kano Naonobu, the younger brother of Kano Tanyu...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
17th Century Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine Oli on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Roman School
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 cm
Frame cm 45 x 36
The saint is depicted in front of the Virgin holding th...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Esther and Ahasuerus Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Brescia, IT
Francesco Maria Raineri, known as Schivenoglia
(Schivenoglia, Mantua 1678-1758)
Esther and Ahasuerus
oil painting on canvas
Size: 52x137 cm
Work exhibited during the exhibition dedicated to the homonymous painter:
“Francesco Maria Raineri - Lo Schivenoglia 1676-1758, works from private collections”
and published in the catalogue, page 13.
Esther is the daughter of Abicàil of the tribe of...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of Young Tsar Peter the Great, circa 1700
Located in Dresden, DE
Painting with the still young Tsar Peter I. Due to his dark, rather unofficial jacket and the dark background the focus of the painting is based just on the face of the proud emperor...
Category
Czech Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Niño Pastor
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX
A beautiful piece with a portrait of a shepherd boy, with this great touch of Spanish artist.
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hst Virgin before the Instruments of the Passion, Framed, 18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Oil on framed oval canvas, presenting the Virgin seated near an angel looking at the instruments of the Passion of Christ or Arma Christi: c...
Category
Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Mid-18th Century 'Allegory of Summer', Oil on Canvas
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting the allegory of Summer.
Piedmontese school from the end of the 1700s, within a wooden frame and tablet carved with floral and vegetable mo...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Antonio Travi Called Le Sestri, Seascape with Ruins, Genoa 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Antonio Travi called Le Sestri (Sestri Ponente, 1608 - Genova 1665)
Seascape with ruins
Genova, First half of 17th century
Oil on canvas with his original 17th century frame
M...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Late 18th Century, Bath of Venus, Tempera on Canvas
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful neoclassical tempera depiction on canvas of Venus bathing within a gilded and ivory lacquered wooden frame.
Tuscan manufacture, in good condition.
MEASURES: Work 56x42 ...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
18th Century Italian Painting by the Painter Scipione Cignaroli
Located in Alba, IT
18th century Italian painting by the painter Scipione Cignaroli.
The valuable oil painting on canvas depicts a landscape of the Italian countryside with wayfarers on the banks of th...
Category
Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique Miniature Young Man Military Officer Portrait Painting John Smart, 1780
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique miniature portrait painting, John Smart (1741-1811). The painting circa 1780.
A very handsome portrait miniature of a young military officer...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Brass
European Reverse Painting on Glass of a King Praying for a Child
Located in Essex, MA
In a giltwood frame and scene of a king with hands clasped over a bedridden child with Christ at his side.
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Glass
French Oil Painting on Panel from the 1600s Depicting the Sacred 'Christ' Jesus
Located in Barletta, IT
French oil painting on panel from the second half of the 1600s depicting 'Christ', with an antique frame."
Provenance: France
Period: Second half of the 1600s
Dimensions: 44x56h...
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French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
17th Century Holy Family with Bird Oil on Glass Follower of Simon Vouet
By Simon Vouet 1
Located in Milan, IT
Follower of Simon Vouet (Paris, 1590 - 1649)
The Holy Family with bird
Oil on glass, cm 20.5 x 23.5; with frame cm 27.5 x 29.5
The small painting examined, made on glass and...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Glass
Oil on Canvas English School Marine Scene Eighteenth Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Oil on canvas English school marine scene eighteenth century
On the back part it has a label with a note in ink: coast of Scarborough-England
E...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Views of the Veneto Venetian School of the Xvll Century with Original Frames
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Views of the Veneto Venetian school of the XVll century with original frames.
Not relining.
Inventory labels on the rack.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
Continental 18th Century Oil on Canvas Painting in Its Original Giltwood Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and extremely decorative Continental 18th century oil on canvas painting in its original giltwood frame. The wonderfully executed painting depicts a handsome young man...
Category
Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Louis XV Painted Entry Foyer Console Table by Ira Yeager
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic 18th century French Louis XV entry or foyer console table lacquer painted by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The table features a...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood
A Beautiful Antique Portrait Of.A Boy
Located in Søborg, DK
A Beautiful oil on board antique portrait of a boy by an unknown artist.
The artist succeeded in capturing this boys striking expression.
Age related wear and patina.
May have had...
Category
Danish Early Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Beautiful Paintings Depicting Interior Scenes with Characters from Th
Located in Barletta, IT
A pair of beautiful French oil on board paintings from the 1700s depicting interior scenes with characters portrayed while eating and drinking seated at a tavern table. Stunning contemporary gold leaf...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Italian Renaissance 16th Century Egg Tempera Fresco on Canvas, Adam and Eve
Located in Firenze, IT
This art piece is a Florentine Renaissance period fresco of late 1500 hand painted with egg tempera representing the temptation of Adam and Eve, this pivotal moment in the history of...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Oil On Canvas With The Battle Of Trafalgar 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Oil On Canvas With The Battle Of Trafalgar 18th Century
LARGE 18th CENTURY OIL OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL ON THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.VERY GOOD QUALI...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Angelica and Medoro Painted Oil on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
Roman School, 17th century
Angelica and Medoro engrave their names on the bark of a tree
Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.5 cm
The canvas depicts one of the most famous episodes of O...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Madonna with Child Painting Oil on Canvas Tuscan School
Located in Milan, IT
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...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Pair of Naïve Allegorical Landscape Paintings Sign, Christian Georg v. Lind
Located in Kastrup, DK
Pair of naïve allegorical landscape paintings.
Oil on canvas
Signed Lieutenant Christian Georg V. Lind, 1837 and 1838.
See text on the back.
In original gilded damgaard frames. ...
Category
Danish Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Italian Hand Painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and framed landscape painting.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Alabaster
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