Rococo Wall Decorations
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
The Party Painting of Crowded Market
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of Middle Eastern streetscene painting "The Party" showing harem women dancing in crowded market square
Category
Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Italian Spolvero Rococo Print on Canvas with an Antique Red Frame and Red Rubies
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a coordinating antique red frame and adorned with polished garnets and red ruby stones.
Spolvero is an arti...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Coral, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment with Phantom Quartz and Raw Agate
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded fragment artifact with phantom quartz and mounted on raw agate.
The piece originally comes from a historical church ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Agate, Quartz, Gold Leaf, Metal
Italian Spolvero Rococo "Fruit & Foliage" Print on Canvas with an Antique Frame
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero "fruit and foliage" fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique wood frame.
Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design f...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Ash, Paper
Mystery Artist French School Pastel on Paper Painting
Located in Kingston, NY
Mystery Artist 18th Century French School Portrait of a Noble Lady Wearing a Blue Cape. Extensive writing on the reverse as to who she is, but illegible.
Measurement: Art: 23 1/2 x ...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Italian Spolvero Rococo Scroll Print on Canvas with an Fragment Frame
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero rococo scroll pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an fragment scroll frame and adorned with polished fossil agate coral.
Spolvero is an artisti...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Agate, Coral, Gold Leaf
Delightful Story, Large Mezzotint by William Ward After George Morland
Located in Norwich, GB
Created by William Ward (British (English), 1766-1826), after George Morland (British (English), 1763-1804)
Lettered below title: Two blooming Nymphs all in a downy bed / In virgi...
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18th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress by Louis Vigée – 18th Century Pastel
By Louis Vigée
Located in PARIS, FR
This exquisite portrait of a woman in a striking blue dress is a masterful work by Louis Vigée, painted in pastel on paper, mounted on canvas. Signed by the artist in the lower right...
Category
Early 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Other
Sculptural Canvas with a 17th Century Italian Giltwood Fragment & 24k Gold Leaf
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural canvas with a 17th century Italian giltwood fragment and 24k gold leaf.
The sculpted canvas is molded together with gesso, gilding wax, marble paste, green earth, Italian dark ochre, and ash on board. The original 17th century Italian fragment is molded into the sculptural canvas to create a dynamic relief sculpture. It is painted with 24 karat gold leaf.
The piece was created by the artist Elena Rousseau for Interi. Together all the elements create a romantic, elegant, and contemporary yet classic work...
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17th Century American Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Elestial Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian scroll fragment with elestial quartz crystals on a hand-painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders ...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Tangerine Quartz
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with tangerine quartz crystal points on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold powders...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Distressed Mirror with Carved Figure of Christ
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved gold leaf mirror with 18th century Italian wood carved figure of Christ on original mirror.
The gold leaf mirror is originally from Liguria. The 18th century Italian figure of Christ is placed onto the mirror to create a contemporary relief sculpture on the mirror. It originally came from an 18th century crucifix...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century French Gilt Wood Sculptured Wall-Consoles
Located in Sofia, BG
18th century wall suspended consoles from France. Beautifully constructed in gilt wood and ornamented with a Rococo influence. The quality of th...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
Pair Large Carved Gitwood Brackets
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is an exceptional pair of large Italian carved gold leafed acanthus leaf-form brackets. The generous size of the these brackets allows them to be used as small consoles. The bra...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Two 19th Century Limoges Enamel Portrait Plaques
Located in London, GB
These elegant enamel plaques was painted in Limoges, a town in the south-west of France. While Limoges was highly regarded for its painted enamel wares in the 15th Century, in the following periods there was a decline in production. In the mid-19th Century, however, items like this pair began to be created, reviving the techniques of enamel painting that were perfected in the medieval period.
The plaques depict two women, both with wavy blonde shoulder-length hair, and similar facial features. The women may be sisters, possibly even twins. One woman wears a pale pink dress...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Enamel
Copy of a Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait in a classical manner of the Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as cupid; Four of four in a series
Category
Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
18th Century Carved Gilt & Polychromed Armorial Coat of Arms Cartouche Plaque
Located in London, GB
Armorial Coat of Arms Wall Plaque, Antique Coat of Arms, Carved Coat of Arms Wall Sculpture, Coat of Arms Oil Painting, 18th Century Coat of Arms Cartouche.
Unusual mid 18th Centur...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Views of the Grand Canal
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawings, one representing San Geremia on the Grand Canal, the other La Salute on the Grand Canal. Both drawings are in a style evocative of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) specialist o...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Copy of a Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait painting in a classical style of the Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a dancer; Three of four in a series
Category
Late 20th Century American Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
18th Century Portrait
Located in Allerum, SE
18th century portrait of a boy from the rococo period, Signed A. Eklund, oil on canvas, circa 1770, Sweden.
Good condition with historical ...
Category
18th Century Swedish Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
French Rococo Painting – Man and Woman in Conversation
Located in Kastrup, DK
Charming French Rococo painting from the second half of the 18th century.
Depicts a man and a woman engaged in conversation in a pastoral setting.
Unsigned and unframed.
France 176...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
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...
Category
Early 19th Century Belgian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Venus in the Forges of Vulcan', workshop of François Boucher? Late 18th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on canvas portraying the visit of Venus to the forges of Vulcan.
French school of the 2nd half of the 18th century.
Undoubtedly executed by a pupil of François BOUCHER; who died...
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Arched Bridge over Venetian Canal Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, 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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style MidCentury Italian Venetian Oil Painting of a Canal Scene
Located in Queens, 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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood
Drawing of Children Playing, Circle of Francois Boucher
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawing of children playing besides a basin of water. Framed in a Louis XVI giltwood frame. Typical of the style and subjects of Francois Boucher.
Chalk and pencil on paper.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Pair of Italian Rococo Carved Pilaster Wall Plaques
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Italian Rococo (mid-18th Century) carved silver gilt pilaster wall plaques with bird and floral carving under an Ionic capital pediment (PRICED ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Silver Leaf
Venetian Canal and Town Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, 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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Italian Rococo Gilt Wall Shelves
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Rococo (18th Cent) gilt carved wall shelves designed with multiple scrolls and foliage and a center shell.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mezzotint Engraving Etching "A Fruit Piece" '1779' by Josiah Boydell
Located in Shippensburg, PA
JOSIAH BOYDELL AFTER MICHELANGELO DI CAMPIDOGLIO
British, 1752-1817
"A Fruit Piece" (1779)
Mezzotint on paper
Item # C104056
A finely preserved and un...
Category
18th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Doge's Palace Venetian Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, 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...
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20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Venetian Canal and Gondolas Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Italian 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.
Canvas is w...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
French Provincial Style Framed Oil Painting of a Genre Landscape
Located in Queens, 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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-style (20th Century) genre painting of a bridge covered in classical architecture with gondolas rowing through the canals below, on unframed canvas.
Wear, paint los...
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Italian Venetian Canals at Dusk Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Queens, 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 Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Grand Tour Style 20th Century White Domed Church on Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a white classical, domed church, resembling the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, directly on a canal filled with gondolas in transit....
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Marble Plaque with Cherub Scene, in the Manner of Clodion
Located in Miami, US
This exquisite 19th-century Italian marble plaque features a finely carved relief of playful cherubs, rendered in the Rococo style reminiscent of the celebrated French sculptor Clodi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
18th Century, Italian Painting Depicting Landscape with Watermill and Characters
Located in IT
18th century, Italian painting depicting landscape with watermill and characters
Oil on canvas; Measurements: frame cm L 103.5 x H 127 x P 5; painting L 93 x H 117.5
The painting...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Large Drawing in the Style of Guardi, Italian School
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Ink
Italian Spolvero Rococo Print on Canvas Framed with Red Phantom Quartz Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a custom frame and red phantom quartz crystals.
Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a des...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal
Italian Spolvero Rococo Print on Canvas with a Fragment Frame & Citrine Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique molding frame and citrine crystals.
Spolvero is an artisti...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal
Italian Spolvero Rococo Print on Canvas with an Antique Frame & Citrine Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique molding frame and citrine crystals.
Spolvero is an artisti...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Antique 19th century hand painted self-portrait, wooden frame
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, AR
Hand painted with great delicacy, based on the self-portrait. Oil on a richly decorated Rococo style gilded wooden frame.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
3D Powdered Canvas with an 18th Century Italian Fragment and Gold Leaf Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with gold leaf shells and gold-plated crystals on a hand painted gallery 1-inch canvas. The canvas is distressed with gold leaf powders used by restorers in Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are no longer available. The powders coordinate with the gold leaf shells. The 18th century fragment is originally from Liguria.
The Italian artifact...
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18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
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...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo Wall Shelves
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of 18th Century Venetian Rococo carved wood and gold gilded wall shelves. These are finely carved from wood and have a delicate curled scrol...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Copy of a Portrait of Young Rospigliosi Boy
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait in a classical style of the young Rospigliosi boy scion dressed as a member of the Swiss Guard; Two of four in a series
Category
Late 20th Century Swiss Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
18th Century Dutch Oil On Panel "Le Traite"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
18th Century Dutch Oil On Panel "Le Traite"
Beautiful painting purchased in France.
Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questions.
Inside Frame Dimension...
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18th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Late 19th Century French Oil Painting of "Port De Peche A Maree Basse"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Late 19th Century French Oil Painting of "Port De Peche A Maree Basse - By Jean Mazella. Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us ...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
"The Gallant Pastor" after François Boucher, 19th century
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is a copy of the "Gallant Shepherd" painted by François Boucher for the audience room of Prince Hercule-Mériadec, Duke of Rohan, on the first floor of the Hôtel de Soub...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
16th Century Italian Santa Lucia in a 18th Century French Frame
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
16th Century Italian Santa Lucia in a 19th Century French Frame
Beautiful Condition. Purchased in France.
Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with any questions.
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16th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
German KPM Porcelain Plaque of an Interior Bedroom Scene
Located in London, GB
German KPM porcelain plaque of an interior bedroom scene
German, late 19th century
Dimensions: Frame height 38cm, width 44cm, plaque height 26.5cm, width 31cm
This fine porcelai...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
Pair of Antique French Rococo Style giltwood Brackets Carved with Ho Ho Birds
Located in Montreal, QC
In about the middle of the 18th century there was a period when Exuberance began to eclipse the understated quality so celebrated in English furniture . From France came the fashi...
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19th Century French Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Italian Giltwood and Gesso Wall Bracket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nicely detailed. Made of Gesso and giltwood. Hand carved and hand painted.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood
Circa 1765, Pair of Rococo 'Chippendale' Gilt Mirrors
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of English 18th century (circa 1765) rococo (Chippendale) gilt mirrors oval shaped framed with elaborate hand-carved frames with c scrolls, acanthus and foliage.
Category
18th Century English Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Venetian Rococo Mecca Lacquered Painted Wall Brackets
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of wall brackets, highly stylized lacquered carving.
Italian, 18th century.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Serge Roche Style Carved Wall Brackets
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Carved wall brackets in the style of Serge Roche with scroll form and brushed gilt finish.
Category
20th Century Rococo Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Rococo wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage wall decorations created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo wall decorations made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original wall decorations, popular names associated with this style include Interi, Aubusson Manufacture, Europa Antiques, and Henri Victor Lesur. 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 wall decorations differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $195 and tops out at $345,000 while the average work can sell for $3,600.