Grand Tour Paintings
GRAND TOUR STYLE
For 18th-century young British noblemen, no education was complete without a year on the Grand Tour. Although it had no official route, the Grand Tour focused on places foundational to European art, literature and architecture, including sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and, most importantly, Italy. It was an opportunity not just to witness the roots of the classics they had studied but also to take some of it home. Grand Tour furniture was among the souvenirs.
Grand Tour furniture ranged from marble architectural models replicating ancient wonders to actual antiquities often taken illicitly, leaving a legacy of looting still being unraveled today. Other items reflected the artistic richness of the Renaissance cities and other destinations. In Italy, this included scagliola tables and pedestals mimicking marble as well as tabletops and wall panels embedded with pietra dura hard stone mosaics.
Furniture was also developed to display Grand Tour purchases in the owner’s home, presenting them as a cultivated and well-traveled person. Mahogany collector’s cabinets held objects like intaglio moldings of coins and seals while others had specialized drawers that framed pietra dura panels.
Many objects were specifically produced for Grand Tour collectors. Often accompanied by retinues on journeys lasting months or years, the elite travelers, the wealthiest of whom extended their trips to Egypt and the Holy Land, required artful personal mementos befitting the experience. For example, Grand Tour micromosaics — small artworks, most not more than two inches wide — arose from the entrepreneurial impulses of artisans who had trained in the Vatican’s workshops.
Grand Tour journeys would help inform a range of decorative styles such as neoclassical, Rococo and Adam style. (Architect and designer Robert Adam toured Italy and France for five years.) The Grand Tour flourished at a time of economic prosperity and political stability, but the French Revolution in 1789 brought it to an end. Yet as the tradition faded in popularity in England, the rising wealth of the United States led to an increase in tourism across the Atlantic and a similar passion for collecting to show one’s worldliness.
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Style: Grand Tour
Pair of Oil on Board Harbour Scenes Manner of Luigi Maria Galea
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Manner Of Luigi Maria Galea (1847-1917)
circa 1900
The Grand Harbour, Valetta, early morning; and The Grand Harbour, Valetta, at dusk
signed illeg...
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Italian 19th Century Neapolitan Gouaches
Located in Bradenton, FL
An absolutely exquisite pair of Italian 19th century Neapolitan gouaches in 20th century giltwood frames. One depicts the volcano eruption of 1822 in Naples, the other is an affluent...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
$4,440 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Antique Religious Grand Tour Plaque Last Supper Painting Alabaster Champleve
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Example of a Religious Grand Tour heavy gauge wall hanging or free-standing Patinated Bronze Cast Rectangular Hand Painted Porcelain Plaque of generous proportions and Continental origin possible France, depicting a classical scene of the Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. Last quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Beautifully mounted on to a rectangular light green Alabaster or Onyx plaque with highly ornate Champleve enamel detailing in colours, which is mounted on to a polished brass backing.
Condition: Good condition with nice patination and no losses, no imperfections anywhere, backing support is very sturdy.
Beautiful and quite unusual religious offering, wonderful gift.
Height: (entire as image one) 8" (20cm). Width: (at base) 10.75” (27cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Y. Gianni, Italian the Gulf of Naples, 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Y. Gianni (Italian) The Gulf of Naples, 19th Century. A beautiful signed "Y. Gianni" gouche on paper, framed and matted with description & name on matti...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Grand Tour Pietra Dura Plaque of Cavaliers Drinking in a Cellar, Florence c.1885
Located in London, GB
A fantastic large Grand Tour Florentine antique pietra dura plaque depicting a group of drunken cavaliers carousing in a cellar.
The image in this piece is all made of pietra dura:...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Stone
Antique Grand Tour Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Board Painting of a Landscape
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous Grand Tour or Neoclassical style framed oil painting of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Late 19th Century
Oil on board, gilt frame
Measures: 10.25"W x ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Canvas Painting of Landscape With Ruins
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous Grand Tour style framed oil painting of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Oil on canvas, gilt frame
Measures: 9.5"W x 1"D x 9.5"H.
Exce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Canvas Painting of Landscape With Ruins
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous Grand Tour style framed oil painting of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Oil on canvas, gilt frame
Measures: 9.5"W x 1"D x 9.5"H.
Exce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
M.L. Monteith, Signed Modern Oil on Panel, Scene from Verdi's Opera "Othello"
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A dramatic and colorful Oil on Board in a custom Gilt wood frame. Figures on a monumental staircase. Signed lower right, labelled and dedicated on verso. In a fine gilt frame.
Panel ...
Category
20th Century Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Wood
Studio of Pompeo Batoni, “Madonna of the Annunciation– Mid-18th Century Italian
Located in Seaford, GB
Country HouseAn exceptional mid-18th-century oil painting from the Studio of Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), presenting a revered composition: The Madonna of the Annunciation. This rema...
Category
Mid-17th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style Venetian Canal Oil Painting - Signed - Italy - Circa 1950's
Located in Chatham, ON
Post Impressionist Grand Tour style Venetian oil painting on prepared Masonite panel - titled verso 'PALAZZO DUCALE, VENEZIA' - featuring the Doge's Palace on the Grand Canal with bo...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
Period Italian Signed Grand Tour Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
Period Italian Signed Grand Tour Watercolor
Beautiful watercolour depicting the ancient Roman colony Timgad
Signed, dated and located in the l...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Camille Corot Follower 19th Century Italian Landscape
By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Located in Roma, IT
Camille Corot Follower 19th Century Italian Landscape
Beautiful oil on panel work by a very close artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
It depicts, in his typical style, a suggestive ...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Smaller
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Smaller
Italy, Circa 1850s
View these enchanting vistas of 19th-century Italy with ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
$3,160 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair 18th or 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Gouaches Of Vesuvius, Bay of Naples
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of 18th or 19th century Neapolitan gouaches of Virgil's Tomb, one with a view of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples. This is a wonderful high quality pair of a rare subject. A...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Grand Tour Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Board Paintings of a Landscap
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Grand Tour or Neoclassical style framed oil paintings of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Early Century
Oil on board, gilt frame
Measures:...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
$2,796 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Canvas Paintings of Landscape With Ruins
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Grand Tour style framed oil paintings of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Oil on canvas, gilt frame
Measures: 9.5"W x 1"D x 9.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$1,836 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Oil on Canvas, Orientalist Scene, Signed Louis Saphier
Located in Houston, TX
Oil on canvas, orientalist scene, signed Louis Saphier.
This lovely painting was executed around 1920.
Louis Saphier was active and lived in both New Yor...
Category
1920s Vintage Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
ANTIQUE GRAND TOUR MARCUS AURELIUS STATUE CORINTHIAN PiLLAR ROMAN OIL PAINTING
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1860-1880 Italian Grand Tour Oil on Board painting of Roman Temple Ruins with a...
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Wood
Set of Four 19th Century Neopolitan Gouache Paintings
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A rare set of 4 exquisitely executed gouaches of Naples and surrounding area, showing unusual scenes of the bays of Amalfi, Sorrento, the golf of Baja (Sardinia) and Tempi Di Pesti ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
Victor Forabosco, Architectural design of a Greek Temple, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Dresden, DE
GREEK TEMPLE, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Victor Forabosco (end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century)
1895/6
Watercolour on paper, 50 x 97 cm
Victor Forabosco was a master builder, ...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Italian Grand Tour Allegorical Porcelain Plaque of Two Graces - Circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, circa 1900.
A Firenze porcelain allegorical plaque depicting two extremely fine quality graces draped in beautiful dresses, flowers, gold accents to their clothing and shoe...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian painting, lake scene, 19th century
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
In the foreground, a lake surrounded by vegetation.
On the left bank, several figures, some in a boat.
In the background, a building that resembles a fortified castle, in a hilly lan...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$2,875 Sale Price
20% Off
Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906, a fine gouache on paper seascape with the panoramic Bay of Naples stretching wide, wit...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Early 19th Century Oil on Panel of Rome
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
Italian School early 19th Century, View of Rome, with Bridge and the Castle St. Angelo and St Peter's Cathedral in the distance. Oil on board. In carved giltwood frame. Circa 1830
H...
Category
1830s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
Three Italian Framed Watercolors of Scenes of Rome
Located in Essex, MA
Nicely framed and newly matted. The pantheon, forum and temple of Hercules Victor.
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Other
Pair of 19th Century Gouches of Naples
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
An early C19th pair of finely detailed gouaches, depicting unusual scenes of the bays of Naples and Sorrento. In charming light colours and excellent condition. Circa 1820.
H: 45 cm...
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1820s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Gouache Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
Neapolitan School, 19th century grand tour landscapes gouache painting on canvas. Mounted in fine period gold gilt frame.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,200 Sale Price
40% Off
Watercolor of St. Paul's Cathedral in London Sergio Manfredi, Italian
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Watercolor A view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London- Sergio Manfredi (1932-?) Italian painter, Signed and dated "S. Manfredi 1958" lower left and inscribed "London St. Paul's Cathedr...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Painting of Travellers at Tivoli Falls Outside Rome After Claude Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A museum worthy large painting depicting travellers before the falls of Tivoli outside of Rome, with the Temple of Vesta in the background, after the 18thC French artist Claude Joseph Vernet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Camillo de Vito, View from Naples Pier, Gouache, c.1820s
Located in Savannah, GA
Camillo de Vito
(Italian, active 1794-1845)
Veduta del Molo di Napoli (view from the Naples pier), circa 1820s.
A gouache on paper depicting a sailin...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Glass, Fruitwood, Paint, Paper
1830 Watercolor and Gouache Painted Vignettes of Eastern Entertainers
Located in Savannah, GA
The caption of this charming pen and ink, watercolor and gouache vignette reads
"A troupe of Eastern Entertainers taken from diary of G. Copeland 1830."
Perhaps a rememberance from...
Category
1830s English Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Silk, Glass, Paint, Paper
$612 Sale Price
20% Off
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Grand Tour-Style (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a bright, aqua canal crowded with gondolas under passage in front of Doge's Palace with St Mark's Campanile just behind it, and the domes of the Punta della Dogana visible in the distance in the lower left corner. Painting unsigned, noted as coming from a 20th-Century studio that specialized in historic commercial reproduction paintings...
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20th Century Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Anglo Indian Grand Tour Miniature Taj Mahal Painting In Carved Rosewood Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
Embark on a journey through time with this extraordinary antique Anglo-Indian Grand Tour Era Miniature Taj Mahal Painting, nestled within a beautifu...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Enamel
$784 Sale Price
20% Off
18th century Fine Italian Grand Tour gouache of Palladian Villa
Located in Seaford, GB
This fine 18th-century gouache on paper is a quintessential example of Grand Tour artistry, depicting an Italian Palladian villa rendered with architectural precision and classical r...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Romantic Still Life of Flowers & Fruit, Grand Tour Period
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Romantic still life of flowers and fruit from the late Victorian Grand Tour Period. Although unsigned, this oil on original canvas has two intriguing "R" insignias, on the gold chate...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
$700 Sale Price
41% Off
Set of Six 19th Century Grand Tour Gouaches
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A rare of 6 mid C19th classical Grand Tour gouaches of unusual scenes depicting Naples, Pompéi and Vesuvius, with broad gold slips and ebonised reeded frames. Circa 1860
Largest 4 - ...
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of 19th Century Gouache Naples Scene Paintings
Located in New York, NY
A pair of large scale Neapolitan “Grand Tour”gouaches depicting the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius having wooden frames with a marbleized finish. circa 1850.
Category
1850s European Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
A Fine Early 19th C. Grand Tour Portrait by Friedrich Moosbrugger, Dated 1827
By Friedrich Moosbrugger
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely executed & extremely charming 19th century portrait of young Italian woman, probably that of Vittoria Caldoni.
Vittoria Caldoni was an Italian woman from Albano most favoured as a sitter by several of the German artists working in Italy at this time.
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1827 bottom right, re-lined and set within a carved and ebonized frame.
Canvas dimensions, 23.75” H x 18” W. Framed dimensions, 27.25" high x 21.75" wide x 2" deep.
Artist Bio: Friedrich Moosbrugger (1804 - 1830) was a German genre...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
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Find a broad range of unique Grand Tour paintings for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Mid-20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage paintings created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with paint, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Grand Tour paintings made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original paintings, popular names associated with this style include Francesco Bartolozzi, and Friedrich Moosbrugger. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for paintings differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $375 and tops out at $22,000 while the average work can sell for $2,357.
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