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Technique: Hand-Carved
Art Deco Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception Aquarell on Wood Panel 1920
Located in Doha, QA
This is a magnificent example of an Art Deco version of Madonna’s Immaculate Conception painted in ca 1920s Era in Vienna. Masterfully done, the painting has very dramatic bright Color scheme-typical for this period. It is definitely a great fit and a conversation piece for any kind of home, either contemporary, traditional or modern. The Painting is set in a dramatic large heavy 19th century gold gilded frame...
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1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Paintings

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Gold

Antique Arts & Crafts Hand Carved Oak Floor Easel / Artist Display Stand ca1910
Located in Lisse, NL
Excellent condition, Arts & Crafts handmade solid oakwood picture stand. This beautiful gallery easel is another one of our recent rare finds and it...
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Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Hand-Carved Paintings

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Brass

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna Della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Ma...
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Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Oil Painting on Tooled Leather of a Putti or Cherub Male Child from Spain 17th C
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautiful 17th century Tooled Leather Oil Painting mounted on board and our best hypothesis is that it is probably Spanish, with a second guess possibly being Dutch. What we do know from a local expert, is that the Putti or Cherub is close to 400-years old. The correct word I believe is actually Putto which is singular for Putti and depicts a chubby small child, typically male. The Putti painting...
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17th Century Spanish Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Leather, Wood

American Oil on Canvas Ship Captain with Spyglass in Orig, Gilt Frame, C. 1840
Located in Hollywood, SC
American portrait oil on canvas of a young ship captain holding a spyglass with a sailing ship, crew in rowboat, and gulls in lower background mounted in the original decorative gilt...
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1840s American American Empire Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Paint, Giltwood, Wood, Canvas, Gesso

19th Century French Still Life Oil Painting of Roses by Eugène Henri Cauchois
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A red-yellow, antique French still life oil on canvas painting depicting a working table with a dark-blue vase with flowers, painted by Eugène Henri Cauchois in a hand carved, origin...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Hans Zatzka 'Austrian, 1859-1945' a Very Fine Oil on Canvas "Spring Beauties"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a very fine and charming oil on canvas "Spring Beauties", depicting three young maidens picking flowers by a lake. The three young girls sitting, kneeling and laying on a grassy area of the forest, her wicker basket filled with the freshly picked flowers, the middle one wearing a bonnet and a straw-hat laying on the ground behind with butterflies flying by, within a gilt-wood and gesso carved frame. Signed (l/r): H. Zatzka. Circa: 1890's. Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) was a well known and regarded Austrian fantasy artist whose most popular and valuable works depicted figures of young maidens with angels, floral and other cheerful and warm scenes, including Orientalist themes. In the past thirty years alone, the high quality and detail of his beautiful paintings has caught the attention of International collectors and art dealers alike, creating a highly sought after market and demand for his instantly recognizable body of work. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of Zazka's charming works were photographed for commercial and collectable postcards. Though no information about his works being exhibited in museums is currently available, most of Zatzka's paintings are in private collections and, in the past century, very few of them have become available on the open market. At the young age of eighteen Zatzka joined Austria's Academy of Fine Arts under the leadership of Professor Blaas. For his fine early works, in 1880 he received The Golden Fügermedal award. Zatzka, like many other artists of the era, traveled around Europe working and selling his art and, in one of his many trips to Italy, he developed a special interest in Religious themes, decorating churches with frescos as well as painting several religious scenes of Madonna's and Child, Saints, Angels and others. In 1885 Zatzka was commissioned to paint "The Naiad of Baden" a ceiling fresco at Kurhaus Baden. Most of Zatzka's income came from his work in religious art and special church commissions. Numerous leading art dealers from around the world that specialize in late 19th and early 20th century European genre paintings have come to the conclusion that the painter signing his works Bernard Zatzka, Joseph Bernard or J. Bernard is almost certainly the artist Hans Zatzka. The consensus seems quite plausible when comparing works known to have been executed by Hans Zatzka together with similar works displaying the signature; Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard or Bernard Zatzka. Lohengrin refers to the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward. It seems to bear some relation to the northern European folktale of “The Seven Swans,” but its actual origin is uncertain. It is also a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Belle Époque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Signed Antique Pastoral Sheep Painting in Giltwood Frame, Belgium, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed in the lower right corner (by Belgian artist “J. L. Van Leemputten”), this antique pastoral sheep painting is from the late 1800s. The peaceful...
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19th Century Belgian Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint

French Oil on Canvas, on the Beach at Trouville, Paul-Emile Morlon, circa 1870
By Paul Émile Anthony Morlon
Located in Dallas, TX
A fantastic depiction of a day at the beach at Trouville in 19th century France, this grand oil on canvas painting by Paul-Emile Morlon is is surrounded by a giltwood frame adorned w...
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1870s French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint

19th Century French Still Life Oil Painting of Flowers by Eugène Henri Cauchois
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A pink-white, antique French still life oil on canvas painting depicting a working table with a yellow teapot vase with flowers, painted by Eugène Henri ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

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...
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Mid-19th Century Rococo Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Antique Framed Oil Painting by Francois De Lalande
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Framed Oil Painting by Francois de Lalande is a splendid pastoral that combines forest, a riverbank, livestock and a quaint water wheel all in late fall colors. The artist dr...
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Early 20th Century French Expressionist Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century Swedish Oil Painting of the Piazza Barberini by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm
By Gustaf Wilhelm Palm
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A blue-brown, antique Swedish oil on canvas painting of a sunny day at the Piazza Barberini, in Rome, Italy painted by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm in a hand carved original gilded wooden fra...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Belle Époque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Manner Titian, Oil on Canvas Sleeping Cupid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Manner of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli - Italian, 1485-1576) An Oil on Canvas "Sleeping Cupid" within a gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reve...
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17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century French Winter Landscape Painting in Original Giltwood Frame
Located in Dallas, TX
This French winter landscape painting from the 1800’s sits securely in the original giltwood frame. The hand-carved frame has several long ribbons, with sinuous fabric curls encompassing a repeating border of two distinct flowers. A slender cavetto molding can be seen inside of the carvings, with a repeating scalloped leaf motif that immediately borders the canvas. The French School painting depicts an overcast winter day with a small patch of blue sky in the middle of gray clouds above snowcapped mountains. Most likely the French Alps, there are a few evergreen trees...
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19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint

Antique Hand Painted Advertising Poster for a Hemoglobin Fabrication in Munich
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Handpainted Advertising Poster for a Hemoglobin Fabrication in Munich A large antique handpainted advertising poster for a hemoglobin fabrication in the 19th century in Muni...
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1890s German Black Forest Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood

19th Century French Framed Oil on Board Still Life Painting After Monnoyer
By Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this antique painting in a living room, bedroom, or on an office wall. Created in France circa 1880, the artwork is set in a unique octagon-shaped carved gilt frame. The piece ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Giltwood

Rococo Oil Painting Signed Bruno Blatter Around 1890
Located in Berlin, DE
Rococo oil painting signed Bruno Blätter around 1890 Oil on canvas painting. Rococo scene. Three gentlemen seated at the table, playing cards a...
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1890s German Rococo Revival Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Antique Belgian Oil Painting of a Man at Lunch by Alex de Andreis, 1880-1929
Located in Dallas, TX
The subject of this antique oil painting is a man enjoying lunch, as emphasized by the brass placard near the bottom of the giltwood frame that reads Dejeuner (“lunch”), with the artist’s name “A de Andreis”. Based on the man’s style of dress, it appears as if de Andreis is depicting a cavalier from the mid-17th century. The gentleman is clad in a red doublet with a light gray colored jerkin with floral patterning. He also is wearing a white ruff-like collar and tan boots...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint

20th Century French Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting by Michel De Saint-Alban
By Michel De Saint-Alban
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A white-green, vintage French still life oil on canvas painting by Michel De Saint-Alban in a hand crafted, original gilded wood frame, i...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Tribal Watercolor Painting of Warrior and Horse, Abstract, c. 2007
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Abstract watercolor on paper with tribal theme features figurative warrior with horse and perhaps an arching bow and arrow. The artist primarily uses black watercolor to create the v...
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Early 2000s American Tribal Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Paint, Paper

Oil on Canvas Italian Street Market Scene by Giuseppe Pitto
By Giuseppe Pitto
Located in Chicago, IL
Giuseppe Pitto (Italian 1857 - 1928) is often known for his paintings depicting pretty women in Italian street markets. This exuberantly painted scene i...
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Late 19th Century Italian Other Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Gesso, Paint, Giltwood, Canvas

Italian 17th Century Oil on Canvas Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns, Mignard
By (circle of) Pierre Mignard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Italian 17th century oval oil on canvas "Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns" Circle of Pierre Mignard (French, 1612-1695) within...
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Oil on Canvas by Alexej Harlamoff, 1840–1925 'Russia'
By Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff 1
Located in North Miami, FL
Presenting an exquisite piece of artistry, "Girl wearing a green jacket," an oil on canvas creation by the talented Russian artist Alexej Harlamoff (1840–1925). This painting encapsu...
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19th Century Russian Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

19th Century Indian Erotic Kama Sutra Tantric Gouache in Inlaid Fretwork Frame
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Indian erotic gouache depicting a couple copulating while standing on a carpet with a bolster behind. The actions of the couple juxtaposed with the calm demeanor on thei...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Brass

19th Century British Oil on Canvas Hunt Painting in Gilt Frame Signed K. Wardle
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a lodge with this elegant antique oil on canvas painting. Created in England circa 1880, and set in the original carved giltwood frame, the artwork titled "The ...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century, French Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Frame Signed Chanut, 1903
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this large and colorful antique oil on canvas painting. Set in the original carved gold leaf frame, the artwork was created in France at the turn of the century. The composition depicts peasant in front of their farmhouse and going to a party all dressed...
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Early 20th Century French Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers'
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers' France, Circa 1880s Framed in an elaborate hand carved pierced and giltwood t...
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Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Copper

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Richard Durando-Togo '1910- ?', Women at the Market, Framed, Signed
Located in Leuven , BE
Richard Durando-Togo is a painter of Argentine origin who spent most of his life in Italy and France, in the latter country he settled permanently in 1934. He is a self-taught artist...
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Early 20th Century Argentine Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

19th Century Belgian Sheep Painting by Henri de Beul
Located in Dallas, TX
This quaint oil on board painting of a shepherd and his flock was painted in the 1800’s by the Belgian artist, Henri de Beul. The painting is signed “H. De Beul” and dated 1885 in the lower left corner of the painting. A shepherd in a green cap...
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Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Pair of Italian Street Scene Paintings on Board Signed Luca Andrea Guizzardi
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a study with this elegant pair of vintage paintings. Created in Italy circa 1990, and hand painted on board, both color...
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Late 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Paintings

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Giltwood

Pair of Italian Oil Portraits with Wood and Gilt Frames
Located in Chicago, IL
These elegant oval frames were custom made to hold a set of “his and hers" oil portraits; probably a wealthy Italian couple. The wood carving is well-detailed and quite sturdy. The ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Hand-Carved Paintings

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Giltwood

18th Century British Oil on Board Sheep Painting Attributed to F. Wheatley
By Francis Wheatley
Located in Dallas, TX
Created in England and attributed to Francis Wheatley (1747-1801), the oil on panel depicts a young shepherdess attending her sheep and lambs in a pastoral landscape. The colorful ar...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

Oil Painting in Impressionist Frame with a View of a Church of Felix Davoine
Located in Hamburg, DE
Large oil painting in impressionist frame with a view of a church Large oil painting in impressionist frame with a view of a church. The painting is in a beautiful carved wooden f...
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Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood

19th Century Dutch Oil on Canvas Painting in Carved Gilt Frame After D. Teniers
By David Teniers
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a study with this elegant antique painting on canvas. Created in Holland circa 1860 and set in the original carved gil...
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Mid-19th Century Dutch Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Original French Oil Painting of a Country Scene by Marcelle Papillaud
Located in Miami, FL
A striking oil on board painting depicting a country forest scene by French painter, Marcelle Papillaud. Marcelle PAPILLAUD was born in 1888, she painted numerous works of art that...
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Early 20th Century French Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Pair of 19th Century French Pastoral Oil on Board Paintings in Gilt Frames
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a study or office with this elegant pair of antique paintings. Created in France circa 1880 and painted on board, both colorful art ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Giltwood

19th Century Framed Oil on Canvas Painting of Christ and St John After P. Rubens
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this cheerful and colorful antique painting. Created in Austria circa 1860 and set in the original carved gilt wood frame, the artwork features an allegory representing baby Jesus, John the Baptist and cherubs after Sir Peter Paul Rubens...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Antique Liegoise Louis XIV Trumeau with Romantic Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Liegoise Louis XIV Trumeau with Romantic Painting will make an instant focal centerpiece for any room! Timeless styling embraced by the court of the Sun King includes a magni...
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1920s French Romantic Vintage Hand-Carved Paintings

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Oak

18th Century, Italian Still Life with Flowers by Michele Antonio Rapos
By Michele Antonio Rapos
Located in IT
18th century, Italian still life with flowers by Michele Antonio Rapos (Italy 1733-1819) The canvas, of fine workmanship and under good conditions of maintenance, represents a sti...
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Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Pair of 19th Century English Minton Framed Painted Ceramic Wall Plaques
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in England circa 1880, and set in the original carved oak frames, each plaque is hand painted and stamped on the back Minton, London, England. Each porcelain, signed by the a...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Ceramic, Oak

Set of Six Japanese Ido Period Shunga 'Erotica' Hanging Lacquered Wood Panels
Located in North Miami, FL
These magnificent lacquered wood panels have been mounted together on a lucite panel. Each panel has its original hanging handle. The panels are hanging on antique railroad...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Metal, Iron

19th Century Florentine Baroque Style Giltwood Hand Carved Mirror Frame
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This is a beautiful hand carved and gilded mirror frame. It is a dramatic wall hanging with a stunning depth of more than 3 inches. The circa 1880...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood

Large 18th Century French Oil on Canvas Painting Depicting a Hunt Scene
Located in Dallas, TX
This large (110 inches high) oil on canvas painting depicts a successful hunter, with his felled game displayed near his retriever dogs. Our hunter is leaning against a stone pedestal, clad in blue coat and pants with his rifle beneath his right hand. The man is wearing a gold cap with red fabric attached to it and has a sword on his left hip. Three retriever dogs stand to the hunter’s left, while a fourth sits in front of him (the man appears to be motioning to this dog with his left hand). An orange terra cotta vase adorned with spiral fluting sits on top of a molded plinth at the top of the pedestal. Ivy has begun to wrap around the vase, which also is festooned with green drapery. On a ledge at the base of the pedestal is the felled game: a rabbit and three birds. The hunting display is surrounded by numerous trees and shrubbery. Mountains and a lake can be seen in the background, beneath a blue sky with pink and orange clouds and birds flying. Based on the size and vertical orientation, the scene was most likely part of a French boiserie room...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Antique Portrait with Gilt Frame, Dated 1851, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique portrait with golden frame, depicting an ancestor of a noble family. hand-drawn and hand-made by an artist who signs himself: A. Laugien, dated 1851. Measures cm W 125 x H 170 x D 17. Precious gilded frame, entirely hand-sculpted. Interesting piece of furniture to embellish the walls of the most beautiful rooms...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Glass, Wood

Pair of 19th Century English Oil on Canvas Portraits Paintings in Carved Frames
By Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a living room or study with this exquisite pair of antique paintings. Crafted in England circa 1860 in the Baroque slyle from the school of Godfrey Kneller, and set in the o...
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Mid-19th Century English Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Eugène Galien-Laloue "Theatre du Chatelet" Watercolor and Gouache
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso c...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Early 19th Century Nocturnal Charcoal Drawing of European Vista
Located in North Miami, FL
Step into the romantic atmosphere of the early 19th century with this captivating Nocturnal Charcoal Drawing, a timeless masterpiece that transports you to a bygone era. This exquisi...
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Early 19th Century European Romantic Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Paper

Large Oil on Canvas Winter Landscape by Peter Adolf Persson in Gilded Wood Frame
By Peter Adolf Persson
Located in Miami, FL
Peter Adolf Persson, born 25th September, 1862 in Kvistoftavägen, Scania, died January 15, 1914 in Tyringegatan, Skåne, was a Swedish artist. Persson studied at the Academy of Arts i...
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19th Century Swedish Romantic Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

17th Century Italian Flemish Oil on Canvas Painting of Adoration of the Magi
Located in North Miami, FL
17th Century Italian Flemish oil on canvas painting depicting the Adoration of the Magi. Early Flemish painting was contemporary to the development of the early Renaissance in Italy. In the middle of the 15th century Italy...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood, Paint

Pair of Signed Antique Watercolor Paintings in Hand Carved Gilt Wooden Frames
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of antique watercolor paintings are done by an unknown artist, likely from France or Italy in circa 1880 in a Renaissance style. The paintings each depict a couple in a ballroom setting dressed in period Renaissance costumes...
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Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Softwood, Paper

Antique Dutch Oil on Board Painting of Cattle, Signed and Dated 1858
Located in Dallas, TX
This oil on board pastoral painting of two cattle is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner “F.J. Dierckxsens 1858”. There is also a handwritten paper affixed to th...
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Mid-19th Century Dutch Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

Eugenio Zampighi 'Italian, 1859-1944' 19th/20th C. Oil on Canvas "Joyous Family"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944) A fine and charming Italian 19th/20th century oil on canvas Titled "A Joyous Family" depicting an interior scene of a seated joyous mother with her smiling toddler child on her lap, as her young daughter amuses them while holding a small kitten picked-up from the cat...
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Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

18th Century Spanish Painting on the Glass, Couple of Painting, Gildwood Frame
Located in Valladolid, ES
Amazing pair of baroque cornucopias, with painted glass, s. XVIII, Spanish origin, Andalusian school (Córdoba) Outstanding pair of Cornucopias in carved wood and gilwood decorated w...
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1780s Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Glass, Giltwood, Paint

Chinese Export Reverse Glass Paintings, Set of Four, circa 1825
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A set of four circa 1825 Chinese Export polychrome reverse glass paintings comprised of figural court views and battle scenes in original 'Chinese Chippendale' parcel-gilt aubergine lacquer frames and reverse backboards. A remarkable and exceptionally rare set of good size and condition. Provenance: Legendary fine English antiques...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer, Paint

18th Century Italian Baroque Landscape After Magnasco Large Capriccio with Ruins
By Alessandro Magnasco il Lissandrino
Located in Milan, IT
A Baroque Capriccio with ruins and figures, an early 18th century Italian painting showing an imaginary landscape with roman ruins and figures, an antique oil on canvas Italian...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Paintings

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Canvas, Plaster, Giltwood

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