Hand-Carved Paintings

A pair of carved giltwood Chippendale crossed palm frames, with inset hand-painted chinoiserie portraits of 18th century oriental nobility. We a...

Interesting Mid-Century Modern art work of camelia-like flowers that are both carved and painted on wood. Unframed. The signature states the artist is ...

Vintage Large Original Floral Lanscape Water Lily Wall Art "IN THE RAIN" Oli on Canvas by Zhang Yibo, Wooden Gold Leaf Frame and Hanging Devise Back of the Frame ready to install Dim...

American oil on board landscape of young lady standing by rabbit in foreground with the original molded pine frame and wood backing. Early 19th century.

Decorate a wall with this colorful antique painting. Created in France, circa 1960 and signed in the lower right corner by French artist, Andre Vignoles, the oil on canvas is framed ...

Decorate an office or study with this elegant antique wall decor. Crafted in France circa 1830, and set in the original carved gilt frame, the art w...

Decorate an office or study with this elegant pair of antique paintings. Crafted in France circa 1870, and signed in the lower right corner "d'apres Debat-Ponsan", each artwork is ha...

Elegant pair of small round oil paintings on canvas, applied on poplar board. The two paintings are framed in a round wooden frame painted in lean tempera. Both depict landscape and ...

This 17th century panel painting is a depiction of a praying Franciscan monk, or of Saint Francis. The grey-brown habit, the skull and the book are ...

Delight in the beauty of early 20th-century art with this captivating watercolor by Campana, a renowned French Art Deco painter. Created around 1920, this painting beautifully depict...

Set in the original carved giltwood frame, this black and white painting depicts Cardinal Richelieu in his office reading a note from the King. The artwork is signed in the top right corner by the artist Leon Fauret. The painting is well treated with great details including the light showing thru the stain glass window. Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis...

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...

Oil painting on canvas, framed in a carved and ebonized wooden guilloché frame, enhanced with burl wood inserts that accentuate its elegance. The painting depicts a half-naked woman ...

18th Century Oil on Board, French School Painting of Four Putti Frolicking With a Goat. Painting features four cherubic putti--nude, playful childlike figures associated with love an...

Robert Mcgregor genre oil painting of french village scene circa 1890. Here we have a Robert Mcgregor (1848-1922) painting illustrating peasant life. This is a well-balanced oil on ...

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...

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...

Decorate a study or office with this elegant pair of antique paintings. Created in France circa 1880 and painted on board, both colorful art ...

This 19th-century oil painting features a well-dressed German gentleman, likely from the upper class. He is formally dressed in a black jacket with gold buttons, a white high-collare...

Set in an exquisite carved gilt frame, the large antique painting was created in Germany, circa 1880, titled "a heavenly recital", the canvas depicts three jovial monks playing music...

DAMIEN HIRST (b. 1965) "Butterfly," acrylic on paper. Signed and stamped on the back. "This painting was made to celebrate the opening of Damien Hirst's Requiem at the PinciukArtCen...

Splendid oil painting on canvas, framed in a carved and gilded pine wood frame with floral motifs. The painting depicts a gallant scene in an idyllic landscape, with ruins and trees....

A beautiful painting of modest size, made in oil on canvas and framed in a carved and gilded wooden frame. The painting depicts the portrait of a young woman with her hair gathered a...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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 Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 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...

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...

RARE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST WORK! MODERN ART CUT & LAYERED INCREDIBLE WOOD DRIP TECHNIQUE OIL PAINTING! After Jackson Pollock DIMENSIONS: Approximately 26" x 24" x 2" This i...

Pair of oil paintings on wooden panels, framed in a carved and gilded wooden frame. The paintings depict two still lifes with flowers, placed in bronze vases of the "kantharoi" type....

A French blue, white rose abstract painting, oil on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated in 1989. Daniel Clesse was a French painter born in 1932 Paris, Fran...

This rare pair of large 19th century oil paintings features Julius Ferdinand Dreysel and his wife Friedericke, influental figures in the textile industry of Plauen, Germany. Painted ...

Decorate a man's office or study with this elegant pair of antique paintings; crafted in France and set in the original carved giltwood frame, each canvas features a nicely dressed p...

Antique 19th century Belle Époque German hand-painted polychromed porcelain pair of framed plaques One representing a young German woman wearing a bay laurel wreath, The maiden is ...

Kirk Tatom was one of the foremost carvers of stone in Santa Fe for nearly 20 years who changed from stone carving to successful artist in 1997. Oil on panel depicting the silhouett...

More information coming soon… A beautiful Dutch painting, signed “H J vd Weele” (Herman J Van Der Weele), depicting a pair of horses huddled beneath two trees with a sparse canopy o...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas inserted in a contemporary frame in carved wood and gilded with pure gold leaf. The scene depicts a small concert in the portico of a villa, with fur...

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...

Signed French framed artwork resting nude woman hand carved bleached oak frame.

Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers' France, Circa 1880s Framed in an elaborate hand carved pierced and giltwood t...

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...

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...

This splendid oil painting on canvas, in Neo-Renaissance style, depicts a young Florentine man from the Renaissance period. Its workmanship closely rese...

An original wallpaper strike off from England in the 1930’s has recently been framed. The new frame is carved and scalloped in an ebonized finish and new protective glass. The mat bo...

This elegant 19th-century portrait presents Charlotte Baroness von Hirschberg, a noblewoman born in 1792. She is shown with ringlet curls framing her face and braids tied into a chig...

Vintage Original Lithograph Featured Mother and Child Print Signed by Alexander Dobkin, Carved and Handcrafted Wooden Gold Leaf Frame with Linen...

Vintage "The Falconer" Original Oil Painting on Panel Signed by Charles Bragg, Linen and Painted Finish Wooden Frame, Wire Hanging back of the Frame. Dimensions: 28"W X 2"D X 24"H

Charming oil painting on wooden panel, elegantly framed in a carved and gilded wooden frame. The work depicts a landscape at sunset, with a city looming in the distance. In the foreg...

This charming 19th-century French landscape painting is executed on board and protected under glass within a finely cast giltwood frame. The pastoral scene features a tranquil groupi...

This late 19th century oil on wooden panel offers a captivating glimpse of historic Florence, expertly rendered with meticulous architectural detail and atmospheric quality typical o...

TEAK & BIRCH HAND CARVED DANISH SHIP WALL ART! BEAUTIFUL! SIGNED NGGAARD Circa 1955 Mid Century Danish Modern Expressionism Dimensions: This mid century carved wood ship art is...

English Victorian (19th/20th-Cent) landscape pastoral scene of rowers on a stream. Oil on canvas in a carved gilt wood frame.

Barn in Moonlight by Frederick John Mulhaupt American Oil Canvas Laid on Board “Barn in Moonlight” By FREDERICK JOHN MULHAUPT (1871 – 1938) AMERICAN. Signed / Oil On Canvas laid on...

A French watercolor on paper portrait of a lady is signed by the artist. Surrounded by a mat board, protective glass, new complementary silver gilt frame and fixed with a wire, this ...

A French watercolor on paper portrait of a distinguished gentleman in a beret. Signed by the artist. Surrounded by mat board under protective glass, with a new silver gilt frame and ...

Bas-relief China, 1900 the Eight Immortals and the "Crossing of the Seas." Chinese bas-relief depicting the Eight Immortals and the "Crossing of the Seas." Bas-relief depicting THE ...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas portraying the marquise Elisabetta Corsini Ginori, wife of Carlo Ginori, well-known founder of the house of the same name and of the famous porcelain...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas, framed in a carved wooden frame and painted with geometric decorative motifs. In the center of the painting is a still life with various objects, wh...

Beautiful oil painting on a panel, set in a gilded frame with a wooden passe-partout. The work depicts a glimpse of a street in Florence, with the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Mari...

A French painting, self-portrait on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in Paris, France, signed and dated circa in 1963. Daniel Clesse was a French pain...

Pair of 18th century French Aubusson cartoon green floral mirrors. The french mirrors are Aubusson tapestry cartoon mirrors painted in gouache on pap...

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 ...

French Impressionist (19th Cent) carved gilt framed oil cobbled street scene, painting of lady by steps of house.