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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Style: Rococo
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.
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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...
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20th Century Rococo Paintings
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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,...
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20th Century 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...
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20th Century American Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
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 ...
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20th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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...
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Early 19th Century Belgian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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...
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19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood
Antique Limoges Enamel Plaque of a Fête Galante
Located in London, GB
Antique Limoges enamel plaque of a fête galante
French, late 19th century
Measures: Frame: Height 27cm, width 28.5cm, depth 3cm
Plaque: Height 14cm, wi...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Metal, Enamel
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...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Rococo Style Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Berlin, DE
Rococo paintings, circa 1900.
Oil on canvas.
(S-62).
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19th Century German Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Italian Rococo Pastels on Silk Portraits by Joseph De Saint Michel, 1769
By Joseph de Saint-Michel
Located in Milano, IT
Joseph Comte de Saint Michel
(Turin, news between 1756 and 1790;
between 1756 and 1776 active at the court of the King of Sardinia in Turin)
Portrait of a Gentleman - Portrait of a L...
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1760s Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood
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...
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Mid-20th Century Rococo Paintings
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Paint
18th Century Portrait
Located in Mjöhult, SE
18th century portrait of a boy from the rococo period, Signed A. Eklund, oil on canvas, circa 1770, Sweden.
Good condition with historical ...
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18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Paintings
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Canvas
19th Century French Oil on Canvas Allegoric Blue and White Painting with Cherub
Located in Firenze, IT
This lovely French 19th century oil painting on square canvas has a sky blue background, a fluffy cloud fills the central part of the painting where a woman is lying down playing the lyre, while a graceful cherub seems to twirl over her.
This oil on canvas painting represents the allegory of music - with a woman dressed in classical clothes and a putto- a very popular theme during all the neoclassical age, with its lively scene inspired by the Rococo period.
The composition creates a awesome trompe-l'œil effect thanks to the color palette scheme. Well painted white and gray shadings (chiaro scuro) that stands out from the light blue background.
This painting originally was an over door frieze...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
19th Century Rococo Style Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Berlin, DE
Rococo paintings, circa 1900.
Oil on canvas.
(S-62).
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Paintings
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...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
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
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. ...
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1790s English Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
18th Century Italian Oil on Panel Bambocciata by Jean Miel Follower
Located in IT
Jan Miel (follower of)
The bambocciante scene
Oil on panel , cm 38,5 x 51. frame 66 x 53,5 x 4,5 cm
The bright painting, with great chromatic impact thanks to the technique of oil ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
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...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Wood
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
Rococo Society at a Pond, France, Late 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Copy of the French artist Francois Boucher, who was the court painter to King Louis XV, this work dates to the late 18th century. It is in its original carved and gilded wood frame a...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Two Antique Kpm Painted Porcelain Plaques in Giltwood Frames
Located in London, GB
This pair of portraits are of oval form and depict the half-length figures of a young boy and girl. The boy has fair, shoulder-length hair and wears a white shirt and green-lined bro...
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19th Century German Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
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...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
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19th Century Austrian 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...
Category
Early 18th Century Swiss Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Paint
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
Andrea Locatelli, Italian/Roman Landscape Painting with Figures, 18th Century
Located in CH
A Roman landscape oil on canvas painting with figures by Andrea Locatelli (Roma 1693-1741)
Locatelli was amongst the group of landscape painters in R...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
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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