Rococo Paintings
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Item Ships From: USA
Style: Rococo
Swedish 1780s Floral Painting in the Manner of Paulus Theodorus van Brussel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish still life floral oil on canvas painting from the late 18th century, painted in the manner of Dutch artist Paulus Theodorus van Brussel. This exquisite Swedish floral paint...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Italian Rococo Period Pair of Oils Depicting Floral Arrangements, Mid-18th cen.
Located in Atlanta, GA
The pair of oils on canvas depicting floral arrangements, one in a basket, the other in a pot, both on plinths, each with dwellings and mountains in the distance, one with a bird in ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Italian, Genovese School, Oil on Canvas, Floral Still Life, mid 18th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
The floral bouquet a beautiful assortment of rich colors in a figural painted urn with a shadowy background, unframed
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of French oil paintings after Francois Boucher
Located in Houston, TX
This pair has retained excellent color and the canvases are in
Good condition without tears or restorations. They are after
The famous artist Francois Boucher who was known for his
...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
18thc Oil Painted Capriccio Landscapes in the manner of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
By (After) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Savannah, GA
These two extraordinary 18th century oil on canvas paintings are done in the style of the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard whose late Rococo manner is renowned. Depicting landcap...
Category
1770s French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
William Francklyn Paris (Architect) Painting
Located in Savannah, GA
William Francklyn Paris
(American, 1871-1954)
An impressionist landscape, circa 1890s in dutch ripple-moulded frame.
A fine little piece and the only painting on record by the arch...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Diana Bathing, after Boucher Oil on Canvas, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
A large oil on canvas after François Boucher of a piece from 1742 that resides in the Louvre, Diane sortant du bain or Diana Bathing. France, late 19th ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Antique Porcelain Plaque of the Reclining Mary Magdalene Reading after Batoni
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique German hand painted porcelain plaque.
In the Royal Berlin (KPM) or Royal Vienna style.
Depicting the Reclining Mary Magdalene Reading In the Wilderness after Pompeo Girolamo Batoni.
Mounted in a contemporary black foliate frame.
Simply a wonderful antique porcelain plaque...
Category
Early 20th Century German Rococo Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. Italian Oil on Canvas w/ Cherubs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C. Original Oil on Canvas depicting a group of cherubs making flower garlands. It is charming and whimsical. The detail is intricate. It has been relined and a has had a gilt...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Henri Victor Lesur Oil on Panel "The Flower Seller"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henri Victor Lesur (Roubaix, France 1863-1900) a very fine French 19th century oil on panel titled "The Flower Seller by the River Seine" (Marchand de fleurs, par la Seine, Paris) Depicting an 18th century street scene of a flower stand by the river Seine in Paris, the young flower seller attending to an aristocrat couple buying flowers; within its original ornately carved giltwood carved frame. circa: Paris, 1890.
Note: The artist is also known as Henry Victor Lesur.
Like many of his contemporaries during the last quarter of the 19th Century, Lesur's works took inspiration from scenes of French 18th century life, romance and every day enjoyment. Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Louis Marie de Schryver, Vittorio Reggianini, Maurice Leloir, Charles Soulacroix...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
18th Century Painting of Cherub/Putti
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a charming painting of a cherub with an arm extending forward, perhaps hold out a bouquet of flowers. The painting dates to the mid-18th century and is probably cut from a la...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Oval Portrait Man and Woman Paintings, a Pair
Located in Seguin, TX
Pair of antique oil on canvas portraits of Peter and Ester Ochs. Writing on back of stretchers, Peter Ochs (1659-1706) and Ester Ochs (Mitz) (1670-1733). Likely from Basel, Switzerla...
Category
Early 19th Century Swiss Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
19th Century French Oil on Canvas "Fete Galante" Painting After J.B. Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or study with this elegant antique painting. Created in France circa 1870 and set in the original carved gilt wood frame, the artwork features a typical French "Fete Galante...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Large Louis XV Style Colorful Large Oil Painting Manner of Boucher French School
Located in Nashville, TN
Probably a variation of ‘Spring’ After Boucher’s Four Seasons. Highly decorative. Typical rococo frivolity and color palette. Garlands and festoons of flowers with intertwined ribbon...
Category
1840s French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil On Canvas School of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Bradenton, FL
Fine large 18th Century interior scene of an agreement being made, School of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on canvas. Superb large scale interior scene of two men coming to an agreement,...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of 18th Century Portraits of Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa
By Martin van Meytens
Located in Essex, MA
Pair of oil portraits of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I of Austria
18th century, in the manner of Martin van Meytens (Dutch/Swedish,...
Category
Late 18th Century Austrian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century Portrait in Faience Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Highly unusual faience frame with maker mark holds a finely detailed portrait of a woman of importance for the time. Information is listed on back (see p...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Faience, Velvet, Paint
French Limoges Wall Art Painted Plate, Early-20th Century
By T&V Limoges
Located in New York, NY
An early-20th century French hand-painted plate by T & V, Limoges, France. Plates' design is beautiful fuchsia-purple and pink mum flowers and green leaves, finished with a gold gilt...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) Oil on Panel "Dressing for the Ball"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) A very Fine oil on panel "Dressing for the Ball" depicting 18th century scene of a young 'High Society' maiden getting dressed for the ball,...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Wood
Vintage Italian Rococo Flower Still Life Wall Art Painting by Mirtex Trading
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian Rococo style flower still life wall art painting by Mirtex Trading. Item features ornate carved frame, dome/bubble form still life painting, original label, very nice...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Rococo Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-style (20th century) painting capturing the 14th century gothic architecture of the famed Doge Palace from the side, while figures move throughout, gondolas are moor...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour Venetian-style (20th Century) genre painting of a bridge covered in classical architecture with gondolas rowing through the canals below, on unframed canvas. Signed.
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a bustling town on a canal and townspeople in route to board a gondola in the foreground, alongside several gondoliers waiting nearb...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style MidCentury Italian Venetian Oil Painting of a Canal Scene
Located in New York, NY
Italian Venetian-style (mid 20th Century) oil on canvas seascape painting depicting a long stone bridge over a busy canal filled with boaters with a city in the background under a bl...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood
Italian Venetian Canals at Dusk Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a bustling Italian canal at dusk, depicting several boats under passage in the foreground, and crowds of ...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour-Style (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a white classical, domed church, resembling the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, directly on a canal filled with gondolas in transit. Painting unsigned, noted as coming from a 20th-Century studio that specialized in historic commercial reproduction...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Arched Bridge over Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a long, arched bridge stretching across a canal filled with boats and gondolas of all sizes, on unframed,...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of gondolas in a jade green canal lined with classic architecture under a cloudy blue sky on unframed, rectangular canvas.
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Italian Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Venetian-style (20th Century) painting of a canal busy with gondolas winding through a town of classical architecture cast partly in shadow, under a blue sky. Painted on rect...
Category
20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
After Fragonard French 19th Century Oil on Canvas Progress of Love-Lover Crowned
By (After) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large French 19th century oil on canvas (laid down on a masonite) "Les progrès de l'amour dans le cœur d'une jeune fille" The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned, after Jean-Honoré...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood
"The Solo Violinist" a Fine Oil on Canvas by Luigi Da Rios
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Italian oil on canvas titled "The Solo Violinist" by Luigi Da Rios (Italian, 1844-1892), depicting an interior 18th century room scene of a single violinist player; withi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood
Painting, Oil on Canvas of Aristocracy, by Johann Heinrich Tischbein
By Johann Valentin Tischbein
Located in Miami, FL
A studio portrait of aristocracy, half-length, wearing a cream and pink lace-trimmed dress, holding a folded hand fan.Painted by Johann Heinrich Tisch...
Category
18th Century German Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
French Provincial Style Framed Oil Painting of a Genre Landscape
Located in New York, NY
French Provincial-style (mid-20th century) oil on canvas painting depicting a pastoral scene of women and children next to a lake with mountains and a gazebo in the distance in a rec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Italian Landscape in the Manner of Vernet
Located in Greenwich, CT
18th century oil on canvas of a Mediterranean harbor scene, in the manner of Claude Vernet (1714-1789) depicting a fanciful scene with castles and villas...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
18th Century French Rococo Painting Circle of François Boucher
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th century French Rococo Painting Circle of François Boucher
This idyllic pastoral oil painting shows Boucher’s impact on this f...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Clair Seglem Portrait Painting of a Woman in Green, 20th Century Unsigned
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A portrait painting of a woman on green. This wonderful painting is large and in charge. At 23” tall, it is is painting on a stiff white paper. The subject of the piece is a woman in...
Category
20th Century American Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Early 19th Century Belgian Genre Painting of a Wedding
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 19th century Northern European Genre Painting of a Wedding, unsigned, late 18th or early 19th century, an oil on canvas finely detailed view of many celebratory figures in an i...
Category
Early 19th Century Belgian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Raimundo de Madrazo Y Garreta Palatial Oil on Canvas
By Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Raimundo De Madrazo Y Garreta (Spanish School, 1841-1920) an exceptional and palatial oil on canvas "Portrait of Isabelle McCreery” depicting an elegant woman gracefully exiting a litter (Sedan Chair), situated within a lovely fairytale setting of a fantastical vista dominated by verdant and blue-green hues, a pair of swans and a lily pad frame the scene in the foreground, within it's original impressive and ornate French 19th Century Rococo Style gildwood carved and gesso frame. Signed and dated ‘R. Madrazo, 1880' (lower left). At the bottom center of the impressive frame there is a gilded, wooden cartouch bearing in italicized script “Portrait of Isabelle McCreery.” This is original to the frame. Sometime after the death of the artist, possibly at the time the painting was given to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the painter’s name was added in block letters.
Provenance:
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Donated by Mrs. Richard McCreery in 1950).
M.H. de Young Memorial Fine Arts Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Christie's New York, 31 December 1969, Sale Property of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Sold for the Benefit of Museum Acquisitions Funds. Lot 80A for $20,700
Canvas Height: 104 ¾ inches (266.1 cm).
Camvas Width: 68 ½ inches (174 cm).
Frame Height: 132 inches (335.3 cm).
Frame Width: 87 ½ inches (222.3 cm).
The work of Raimundo de Madrazo, an artist who lived in Paris the greater part of his life, is among the most representative and influential of the ‘school’ of Spanish painters resident in Paris during the nineteenth century.” (Carlos González and Montse Martí, Spanish Painters in Paris 1850-1900, London, 1989, p. 53). The wonderful imagination and artistic genius of Madrazo y Garreta established his fine reputation, and created an international demand for his exquisite portraiture. This particular work features an elegant woman who gracefully exits a litter, situated within a lovely fairytale setting of a fantastical vista dominated by verdant and blue-green hues. Isabelle McCreery was a member of the noted Gold Rush pioneer McCreery family of Irish background who settled in San Francisco in the mid nineteenth century. She later lived in Burlingame, an early San Francisco...
Category
1880s Spanish Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Charles Edouard Edmond Delort Oil on Canvas "Game for the Cardinal"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charles Edouard Edmond Delort (French, 1841-1895) oil on canvas "Game for the Cardinal", depicting a seated cardinal behind an ornate French Louis XV roll-top Bureau du Roi, after the model by Jean-François Oeben currently at Versailles, a young boy delivering a game bird as a gift, all inside an ornately paneled and upholstered wall room with parquet floors and centred with a white bear skin rug...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Jean Antoine Watteau, Circle of, 18th Century Large Old Master Painting, France
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) circle of. 18th century old master painting, France.
With great pride we offer an extremely rare masterpiece from the 18th century, France. This painting is unsigned as most of his works. It has no provenance, but carries with it all the earmarks of the great Rococo style school of Watteau. It pictures one of his famous outdoor parties with a group of frolicking young people. In the background is a reference to a swing, a favored subject in his paintings. The composition of the painting, colors, brushstrokes (especially in the fabric) is clearly Watteau’s studio. This large 18th century canvas...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Heinz Pinggera, "Music Recital for the Cardinal" Oil on Canvas
By Heinz Pinggera
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Heinz Pinggera (Italian, b 1900) "A Recital for the Cardinal" oil on canvas within a gilt-wood and gesso frame. The interior 18th century rococo scene depicting a seated Cardinal or ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Large 18th C. Bucolic Painting Garden Nature Scene Landscape Dog Flowers Antique
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Large 18th C. Bucolic Painting Garden Nature Scene Landscape Dog Flowers Antique . A Beautiful Hand painted bucolic " Bucolique " painting in the spir...
Category
18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Hans Zatzka, Austrian Oil on Board Titled "Springtime" Maidens Picking Flowers
By Hans Zatzka
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a superb quality oil on board titled "Springtime" depicting two young maidens in the forest collecting flowers by a river...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Wood
18th century Portrait of Lady Oil on Canvas in Giltwood Frame
Located in Savannah, GA
English oil on canvas portrait dating from the late 1700s painted in the manor of Joshua Reynolds. We believe the giltwood frame could be the original as it is right for the period. ...
Category
1790s English Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Henri Victor Lesur 19th Century Oil on Panel "Park Poetry"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henri Victor Lesur (Roubaix, France 1863-1900) A fine French 19th century oil on panel titled "Park Poetry" (Poésie dans le parc) depicting an 18th century park scene with a standing young gentleman reciting poems to a couple of ladies and a gentleman seated at the 'Jardin des Tuileries', the garden for the 'Palais des Tuileries' built by Catherine de Medicis, Paris, circa 1890.
Note: The artist is also known as Henry Victor Lesur.
Please click here to view another painting by Henri Victor Lesur (Roubaix, France 1863-1900).
Measures: Panel height: 18 inches (45.7 cm).
Panel width: 22 inches (55.9 cm).
Frame height: 25 inches (63.5 cm).
Frame width: 29 inches (73.7 cm).
Like many of his contemporaries during the last quarter of the 19th century, Lesur's works took inspiration from scenes of French 18th century life, romance and every day enjoyment. Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Louis Marie de Schryver, Vittorio Reggianini, Maurice Leloir...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Robert Gardelle Signed Portrait Swiss Oil Painting, 18th Century, Switzerland
Located in New York, NY
Robert Gardelle portrait Swiss oil painting, 18th century, Switzerland. A portrait by painted Robert Gardelle. Signed a tergo / on the back R. Gardelle...
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Early 18th Century Swiss Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
Italian Rococo 1770s Framed Still-Life Painting Depicting a Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Rococo period framed still-life oil on canvas painting from the late 18th century, depicting a colorful bouquet. Created in Italy during the third quarter of the 18th cent...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th Century French Firescreen-Painted Oil on Cancas, Wood Panel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Originally an 18th century French firescreen with a musical motif painted in oil on canvas fixed to a wooden panel.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Large Oval French, 18th Century Genre Painting
Located in Southampton, NY
Large oval French, 18th century genre painting.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Rococo Paintings
Rococo paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo paintings for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 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, more furniture and collectibles, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, canvas and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo paintings made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original paintings, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Henri Victor Lesur, Charles Edouard Edmond Delort, and Eduardo Leon Garrido. 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 $240 and tops out at $345,000 while the average work can sell for $7,800.
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