Australia - Paintings

A beautiful 19th century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Saint Rita De Cascia. Santa Rita is almost always depicted as she is here, with a trickle of blood and a thorn deeply embedded in her forehead. According to legend, in the year 1441, during a sermon on the Crown of Thorns, Santa Rita prayed so intently that a thorn detached itself from her crucifix and lodged itself in her forehead. For the next fifteen years, she bore this external sign of stigmatization and union with Christ. It was said her wound became so disturbing to view, that she spent the latter part of her life in isolation and prayer. At her canonization ceremony in the year 1900, Santa Rita de Cascia was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes. In Mexico, Santa Rita is widely venerated as the Patroness Saint of mothers, abused wives, and heartbroken women. In this work, she is flanked by two small male figures representing her two beloved sons (notice the fine attention to the paintings of their faces and their glowing rosy red cheeks). She holds a large crucifix in one hand and a flagella whip, symbolizing her practice of mortifying the flesh, in her other hand. The work is hand painted on metal (likely tin). Ex-votos and retablos are often placed above the altars in churches or family shrines as votive offerings made in the form of religious pictures...

A anonymous Italian 19th century flower painting, oil on wood. The flowers in a gold colored bouquet vase with a scrolled base. Resting o...

Still Life by Bernard Labbe (French Mid-20th Century) original watercolor, ink and gouache on paper size: image 7.75 x 11.75 inches size: sheet 10 x 14 inches unsigned, stamped verso condition: very good, right side of sheet (white margin) cut slightly unevenly, ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists atelier/ studio, France (stamped verso) A still life tableaux of objects, perhaps some surrealism in Labbe's work on this one. A bird perches above a face which is depicted as half skeletonised, a decorative mirror hangs...

Naive Ethiopian painting, The Greatest Scenes of Religion, Society and History. Oil on Canvas Measures: 100 x 190 cm s.b.r. with Ge'ez language ...

A 19c naive oil painting on a thin wooden panel of a young girl in an architectural and wooded landscape in a black painted frame with gilt slip. A regency period portrait...

Bustling Paris street scene, Paris. By Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021). Watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed. unsigned. Stamped verso. Measures: painting: 9.8 in...

Italian antique dog portrait oil painting with gilded wood frame, late 1800s Oil painting with frame representing the portrait of a white dog....

The upper two lines show Months of Year form September to February and March to August, below the scenes of life. with Ge'ez language inscriptions.

Landscape Signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Inscribed Verso on back oil/gouache painting on artist paper, beautifully painted. very good condition size: 25 x inches x 19 ...

Naive Ethiopian Genre painting, 1970s oil on canvas with Ge'ez language inscriptions.

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring an unknown Spanish Roman Catholic Saint. The work is hand-painted on metal (li...

Landscape Signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Inscribed Verso on back oil/gouache painting on artist paper, beautifully painted. very good condition size: 17 x inches x 25....