Neoclassical Paintings
NEOCLASSICAL STYLE
Neoclassical design emerged in Europe in the 1750s, as the Age of Enlightenment reached full flower. Neoclassical furniture took its cues from the styles of ancient Rome and Athens: symmetrical, ordered, dignified forms with such details as tapered and fluted chair and table legs, backrest finials and scrolled arms.
Over a period of some 20 years, first in France and later in Britain, neoclassical design — also known as Louis XVI, or Louis Seize — would supersede the lithe and curvaceous Rococo or Louis XV style.
The first half of the 18th century had seen a rebirth of interest in classical antiquity. The "Grand Tour" of Europe, codified as a part of the proper education of a patrician gentleman, included an extended visit to Rome. Some ventured further, to sketch the ruins of ancient Greece. These drawings and others — particularly those derived from the surprising and rich archaeological discoveries in the 1730s and ’40s at the sites of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum — caused great excitement among intellectuals and aesthetes alike.
Neoclassical furniture is meant to reflect both grace and power. The overall appearance of neoclassical chairs, tables and cabinetry is strong and rectilinear. These pieces are, in effect, classical architecture in miniature: chair and table legs are shaped like columns; cabinets are constructed with elements that mirror friezes and pediments.
Yet neoclassicism is enlivened by gilt and silver leaf, marquetry, and carved and applied ornamental motifs based on Greek and Roman sculpture: acanthus leaves, garlands, laurel wreaths, sheaves of arrow, medallions and chair splats are carved in the shapes of lyres and urns. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
As you can see from the furniture on these pages, there is a bit of whimsy in such stately pieces — a touch of lightness that will always keep neoclassicism fresh.
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Style: Neoclassical
"The San Carlos" Original Painting by William Alexander Coulter
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
(1949 - 1936_ 16” x 28” period frame 19” x 30”. Signed lower right. Undated. Estimate 1880s. Included is a letter from Coulter, Steel and Forged dated 1/24/69 by James Coulter, and a...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Portrait of Dominican Father Signed and Dated Luigi Mussini 1860 Tuscan School
Located in Milano, MI
Luigi Mussini Portrait Of Dominican Father 1860 taken frontally, half-length, with dark green background. Dressed in a buttoned smock and a white cassock rendered with a masterful b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Framed Oil on Canvas Pink Rose " Viviene" by Shelly Gurton
Located in Savannah, GA
This stunning pink rose titled "Viviene" was painted by Shelly Gurton, a native of Georgia, born and raised in Savannah and Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia where she ...
Category
2010s American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Metal
Gulbrandt Sether Signed Norwegian American Oil on Canvas of a Venice Canal
Located in Manhasset, NY
A Gulbrandt Sether Norwegian American oil on canvas of a Venice canal. Canal De lovo -Venice in a fine and highly detained gilt frame. (Paperwork on reverse).
Gulbrand Sether...
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
"on the Lapland Coast" by Hermann Ottomar Herzog
Located in West Chester, PA
Wonderful painting showing a group of reindeer along the coastline of Lapland. Part of Herzogs list of 1000 painting this painting is numb...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
"Twilight in the Hills" Luminous Autumnal Painting by William Louis Sonntag
By William Louis Sonntag Sr. 1
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A luminous Autumn oil on canvas board landscape, probably of the hills in the Hudson River Valley, by the noted American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Signed in the lower right.
Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...
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19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
19th c. Original Landscape Art
Located in Saint Petersburg, FL
Original landscape art, forest and lake scene. signed by artist.
Category
Late 19th Century Mexican Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
19th Century Renaissance Revival Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Peabody, MA
A late 19th Century Renaissance Revival profile portrait of a young man, Italian School, ca. 1880s.
This atmospheric portrait comes to us from a prominent North Shore of Boston fami...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century French Revolutionary Hand Colored Engraving
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
18th Century French Revolutionary Hand Colored Engraving During The Revolution. Very Ornate Gilt wood Frame. Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed p...
Category
18th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
A true pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu plaques, dated 1869
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very unique and decorative true pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu plaques, dated 1869. Each rectangular relief with a triangular plinth and capital are set on a ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu and Ebony wall plaques
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very unique and powerful true pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu and Ebony wall plaques. Each most decorative plaque is set within a think Ebony frame displaying ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Ormolu
Italian Neo-Classic Print of 3 Urns
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neo-classic style print of a classic ornate urn raised on a pedestal and 2 smaller urn studies on either side in a black and silvered wood frame
Category
20th Century Italian Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood
1792 German Heraldic Gouache, Ink and Watercolor with Imperial Inscription
Located in Morristown, NJ
18th Century German Heraldic Gouache with Imperial Inscription, 1792
Signed “Herzer”, with reference to Kaiser Ferdinand II, 1623
An exquisite late 18th-century heraldic painting in...
Category
1790s German Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Late 18th Early-19th Century French Drawing View of Rome
Located in CH
A late 18th-early 19th century French neoclassical drawing on paper, view of the Tiber River with the Aventine hill in Rome.
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paper
Italian Set of 6 Oils on Canvas, Homes in Landscapes, early 19th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
the paintings showing unique homes in both pastoral and coastal landscapes, all in original incised giltwood frames
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
19th Century, View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Follower of Francesco Guardi
By Francesco Guardi
Located in IT
19th Century, View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Follower of Francesco Guardi
Dimensions: frame, cm W 121.5 x H 105 x D 5.5. Canvas cm W 100 x H 81
The work, created by a Venetian ...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th-Century Watercolor by Claude Thiénon – River Scene with Boat and Church
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
19th-Century Watercolor by Claude Thiénon – River Scene with Boat and Church
This exquisite 19th-century watercolor by French artist Claude Thiénon captures a serene riverside scene...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Italian 18th Century Neo-Classical Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely charming Italian 18th century Neo-Classical oil on canvas painting. The circular painting retains its original giltwood frame with a beautiful mottled designs and finely...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Chromolithographs "Grand Foyer Et Loggia De L'opéra De Paris" Daumont 19th C.
By Daumont
Located in Paris, FR
This pair of 19th century chromolithographs by Daumont presents two views of the grand foyer and loggia of the Paris Opera. On one, there is a view of a detail of a bay decorated with an "Italia" medallion painted by Paul Baudry...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian 19th Century Neo-Classical St. Oil on Canvas Painting of a Young Man
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine Italian 19th century neo-classical st. oil on canvas painting of a young man. The young man has his red cloak draped over his left arm while holding a scroll in his left hand....
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Framed Oil on Canvas Iceland Poppy "Paulette- Flower" by Shelly Gurton
Located in Savannah, GA
This stunning pink Iceland Poppy was painted by Shelly Gurton, a native of Georgia, born and raised in Savannah and Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia where she received...
Category
2010s American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Metal
French Oil on Panel Painting of a Woman c. 1815
Located in 263-0031, JP
French oil on panel painting of a woman. Composed on a wooden panel, this c. 1815 oil depicts a woman displaying the exaggerated, theatrical mannerisms of the Neoclassical style that...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood
Framed Oil on Canvas Blush Rose "Blanca" by Shelly Gurton
Located in Savannah, GA
This stunning blush rose titled "Blance" was painted by Shelly Gurton, a native of Georgia, born and raised in Savannah and Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia where she ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Metal
group of 6 Italian engravings
Located in Queens, NY
SET of 6 Italian Neo-classic (19/20th Century) celedon and white matted engravings showing landscapes and classic architectural building in black frames (PRICED AS SET)
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paper
French 18th Century Trompe l'Oeil Painting
By Piat Joseph Sauvage 1
Located in New York, NY
This neoclassical trompe l'oeil painting is an allegory of summer. It would have been hung with allegories of the other three seasons over the doors of a salon. Ceres, Roman goddess...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique Painting Eugene Lepoittevin Signed and Dated 1851 Mediterranean Marina
Located in Doha, QA
This is a beautiful painting of the sea coast by Eugene Le Poittevin (other names include Lepoittevin or Poidevin ) ,born in 1806 and died in 1870 in Paris, France. The painting was ...
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19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Gorgeous Oil Painting Sailing Ship Early Morning Fog signed A. Cucchi Dates 1939
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
On canvas. Signed A. Cucchi 1939 lower right. Framed measures 41" h x 35 1/8" w x 1 1/2" d. Painting measures 38" h x 32 1/8" d.
Condition
Previous repair.
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Italian 19th Century Big Size Watercolor with Black and Gold Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Rare extra large (cm 59 x 85) antique watercolor representing a coat of arms and coming from a collection of architectural details of Florence monuments painted in Italy in the mid-1...
Category
1840s Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original Arch Shaw Oil Painting of a Classic Antique Automobile
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Original Arch Shaw Oil Painting of a Classic Antique Automobile
Category
Late 20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Italian 19th Century Big Size Watercolor with Black and Gold Frame
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Rare extra-large (cm 59 x 85) antique watercolor representing a coat of arms and coming from a collection of architectural details of Florence monuments painted in Italy in the mid-1...
Category
1840s Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
William Alexander Drake Oil Board, Ship at Dock
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Signed lower right. An impressive hulking ship with a green hull dominates the scene at a dock, perhaps for repair. The partial view of a steamship is in the right background.
Sigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood
Framed Painted Plaster Roman Fresco
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
The intricacy of this late 19th century Roman Style fresco painting has been preserved for over 100 years. It depicts wild animals and a male figure decoratively painted among scroll...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Signed Oil on Panel by N. Henry Bingham
Located in Houston, TX
Signed Oil on Panel by N. Henry Bingham depicting a young girl with her dogs
American artist born in 1939
Category
20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Original Oil Painting Location of the 1957 Movie “Peyton Place” with Lana Turner
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original oil painting location of the 1957 Movie “Peyton Place” with Lana Turner
This painting was executed by the award winning young artist Ric Lee. It pictured the location of ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood
Botanical Still Life Painting on Vellum with Insects, Continental
Located in Downingtown, PA
A fine continental botanical still life painting with insects,
possibly Scandinavian,
Gouache and oil on vellum,
early 19th century.
The painting is stunning. The painting with...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-19th Century American School Portrait of a Girl Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Middleburg, VA
Mid 19th century American School Portrait of a girl oil on canvas painting. Depicts a young girl in a pink dress with blonde hair in front of lattice covered in a flowering vine. Sig...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Framed Oil on Canvas Dahlia Flower "Delilah" by Shelly Gurton
Located in Savannah, GA
This stunning dahlia titled "Delilah"3495 was painted by Shelly Gurton, a native of Georgia, born and raised in Savannah and Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia where she...
Category
2010s American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Painting of the Muses in an Ornate Carved Giltwood Frame
Located in Queens, NY
Italian (19th Century) oil painting of 2 classically dressed women in front of a fountain of a dolphin by the ocean in a carved ornate giltwood frame titled: "A Musical Interlude" (s...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Wood
Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte.
Depicting `the Reconciliation of Venus ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Spectacular Winter Scape with Hare Painting Russian
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Spectacular melancholic antique winter scape with hare oil on canvas large painting. Signed in cirillyc lower right/ probably White Russian emegrant artist.
Category
Early 1900s Balkan Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Alice D. Bryant - California Impressionist Watercolor Painting - circa 1920s
Located in Chatham, ON
ALICE DANIELS BRYANT (1879-1944) - California Impressionist watercolor painting - featuring a mountain view with Eucalyptus trees and bluebonnets in the foreground - double bevel edg...
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Glass, Softwood, Paint, Paper
Still Life with Violets Oil on Panel in Ornate Gilt Frame 1880s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Still Life with Violets Oil on Panel in Ornate Gilt Frame, 1880s.
This is a wonderful oil painting of a bunch of violet flowers, beautifully arranged against a dark background. Beau...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
Portrait Of A Woman In Black Hat
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Elegant watercolor painting of a beautiful woman in black cowboy hat, originally painted by Texas not signed .
Nice hand painted wood frame with protective acrylic like glass .
Great decorative American artist painting.
Category
20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Miniature Pair of American Impressionist Framed Landscape Paintings, Circa 1900
Located in Chatham, ON
California Eucalyptus school pair of miniature framed Impressionist landscape paintings - painted in watercolor and gouache on paper (applied to boar...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original Kellogg & Comstock Hand-Colored Lithograph 'Shepherdess of the Alps'
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Kellogg & Comstock
SHEPHERDESS OF THE ALPS
original Kellogg & Comstock hand-colored lithograph,
Published by D. Needham (American, 1808 - 1888).
Circa. 1848-1850.
image: 12 in x 8 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 21.59 cm.
overall: 15 in x 11 in; 38 cm x 28 cm.
Strong and clear impression,
overall very good condition,
paper has a light oxidation and restored small tear middle left side
Framed, no glazing
This hand colored print is of a young girl and two goats standing near a stream in a forested area.
The girl is wearing a knee-length dress with short puffed sleeves and long stockings.
She is feeding a goat with flowers and grass from her apron.
The original "Shepherdess of the Alps" appears to have been a play by Marmontel,
which enjoyed great popularity in France, England, and America
in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The play inspired numberous paintings and prints.
See Paul Grigaut,"Marmontel's Shepherdess of the Alps in Eighteenth Century Art," Art Quarterly (1949).
The subject appears quite frequently in schoolgirl art...
Category
1840s American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Autumn Backroads" by Robert Emmett Owen
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Measures 39.5" x 45" including the frame.
1878-1957
Robert Emmett Owen was a successful artist best known for his Impressionist views of rural la...
Category
1930s North American Vintage Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) OIl On Masonite Or Panel, House In Snow
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Oil painting on masonite or board.
Signed lower right. A charming country scene of a house in winter with a fence and bluish-white snow covered yard. Tall brown-green tress frame the...
Category
20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Mid-century acrylic on board country landscape signed van Schlock
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a mid-century vintage acrylic on board country landscape. This painting is presented in a wide rustic pine frame with a decorative gold border on the inside edge. This painti...
Category
1970s American Vintage Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique French Allegorical Summer Oil Painting - By Henri Picou
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
C1865 Antique French Allegorical Summer Oil Painting - By Henri Picou
The Neo-Greco woman is holding a scythe in her hand. Beautifully executed.
Unique piece purchased in France. Ag...
Category
19th Century French Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Period Marine Landscape Credited to Warren Sheppard
By Warren W. Sheppard
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful painting, due to its very high quality of execution, style and era, can be referred to the great artist Warren Sheppard, who specialized in seascapes.
Of great evocati...
Category
19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Pair of Country Life Scenes" by George Henry Durrie
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A pair of oil on panel paintings featuring the "Farm in Autumn" and "A Fisherman in the Mountains".
Autumn initialed 'D' lower right and The Fisherman ...
Category
19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
Framed Portrait Painting of a Man with Beard by American Artist Genie Brock
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Vertical portrait painting of a man by American artist Genie Brock. (Oklahoma, circa early 20th century) The subject is of an older gentleman with a gray head of hair and beard. He s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Oil on Canvas "City View" Sunset City Scene with Palace Signed Kitty Young
By Kitty Young
Located in Manhasset, NY
A fine oil on canvas painting signed Kitty Young, of a City View in the Sunset. This piece framed in a gilt gold wooden carved frame that is bordered in an...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Watercolor with Roman Ruins
Located in Stamford, CT
18th century Italian capriccio depicting ruins based on the Roman Temple of Vesta being visited by a group of Grand Tour travelers. With an arched bridge and another columned structu...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paper
Italian Neo-Classic Engravings of Roman Themes
Located in Queens, NY
5 Italian (19th Cent) Neo-classic engravings depicting Roman statuary/mythological themes framed in silverleaf moulding with matting (PRICED EACH)
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Silver
Antique Miniature Watercolor Painting Portrait of a Woman Neoclassical Frame
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique miniature watercolor portrait of a woman in a neoclassical style, set without glass in a brass frame.
Measures: 1.875” x 0.125” x 1.87...
Category
19th Century Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Brass
American Oil on Canvas of Single Masted Schooner Yacht under Full Sail 20th Cent
Located in Charleston, SC
American nautical oil on canvas of single masted schooner yacht under full sail with American flags, and crews on deck while second vessel victory is approaching. Painting is mounte...
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Silver Leaf
Edward Morton Campbell, Framed Landscape Painting, U. S., Late 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Edward Morton Campbell (1858-1911) - "Untitled" - American Impressionist fine art landscape oil painting on prepared heavy pressed paper panel - signed lower right - contained in an ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Softwood, Paint
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