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Item Ships From: Spain
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
"STILL LIFE" Italian School of the 18th Century
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
"STILL LIFE" Italian School of the 18th Century Oil on canvas pasted on wood, 18th Century Italian school Small defects. Dim.: 80 x 107.5 cm good conditions
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

CIRCLE OF SALVATORE ROSA "Port View" 18th Century
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
CIRCLE OF SALVATORE ROSA "Port View" 18th Century Oil on canvas. Recovered. Grid label from screen supplier James Bourlet & Sons (1850-1895). The London firm of Bourlet has made the...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

18th century Central Italian Painter - Madonna with the praying Saint John
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
18th century Central Italian Painter - Madonna with the praying Saint John oil painting on canvas Dimensions: 63x76 cm good condition
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Amazing and Rare 16th Century Panel Moorish composition
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Amazing and Rare 16th Century Panel Moorish composition 0.81 x 0.81 good condition
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16th Century African Moorish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Porcelain

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 Spain - Wall Decorations

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Glass, Giltwood, Paint

Pair of French 18th Century Gold Earrings
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of French 18th century gold earrings in fenestrated gold earring with pendant elements, studded with rubies, diamonds and jellyfish. ...
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18th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Gold

Large Oil On Canvas, Flemish School, XVIIth Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Large Oil On Canvas, Flemish School, XVIIth Century LARGE OIL ON CANVAS, FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY LARGE FORMAT, OIL ON CANVAS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY APPARENTLY UNSIGNED. A FOLLOWE...
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16th Century Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Spanish Gold and Diamonds Lace Pendant from the 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish gold and diamonds lace pendant from the 18th century, in gold with a hollow body with a pendant element, ornamented with ribbons and flowers, wit...
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18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Gold

Italian School 17th Century Oil Painting The Musician
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian School 17th Century Oil Painting The Musician Italian school 17th century oil painting the musician 17th century oil on canvas with a cos...
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Mid-17th Century Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Wood

North American Painting Late 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
This significant oil painting on copper represents a notable example of the North American School in the late 18th century. The artwork captures the essence of the time, marked by cr...
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Mid-18th Century Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Copper

"Soldiers Looting a Village" 17th Century Oil on Panel Dutch School
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Soldiers looting a village XVII century oil on panel Oil on panel: 75 x 110 cm Signed and dated 1650 lower left Sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 11/18/93 For 130,000 DG = 60,827 € - joint purchase invoice for the year 93 About painter dutch painter Utrecht 1586 - 1666 Utrecht Painter of genre scenes, generally of peasants, views and landscapes of villages and towns (including some winter landscapes) and some religious and allegorical subjects (mainly at the beginning of his career). We do not know under whom our painter studied. Seeing the Flemish character of his work, some scholars believe that he could have studied in Flanders, in Antwerp. Droochsloot was a versatile and productive painter. The central museum in his hometown of Utrecht holds 15 of his paintings, showing the diversity of his work, many other museums exhibit his works Our painting represents a scene that took place during the Eighty Years' War. This Dutch War of Independence from Spain was a long, slow war that lasted from 1568 to 1648. The war began with a Protestant uprising in Flanders and Holland against the Spanish...
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17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

18th Century Religious Painting of a Nun Painted in Oil on Canvas Framed
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Religious Painting of a Nun Painted in Oil on Canvas Framed
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17th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Canvas

Spanish Gold and Diamonds Lace Pendant from the 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish lace in 18th century gold in gold with a hollow body with a pendant element, ornamented with ribbons and flowers, with honeycombs studded with diamonds, with a pin placed a ...
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18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Gold

18th Century Spanish Altarpiece, Wallmounted Sculpture, Carved Gilwood
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind Set of two pieces belonging to a monumental Baroque altarpiece made in the 18th century. These are two magnificent carvings of large dimensions, which together make a semicircular piece with a profuse decoration also of monumental proportions of plant forms. Decoration with elaborate carved rolls, which stand out from the general structure. It comes from a Spanish church that housed an imposing altarpiece made in the second half of the 18th century. The entire visible surface is gilded with original gold leaf, with imperceptible subsequent touch-ups. The back is reinforced, which makes the pieces very strong and heavy. In the photographs you can see the approach of its collectors: they placed it as a headboard, it looked impressive! But these exclusive pieces can be presented in many possible ways, either as part of the wall or as a work of art. Due to its enormous size, the configuration chosen for transport is "the buyer picks up the piece" but if, once awarded, you want to contract transport, we will provide it (we have a team of experts). Total measurements: 450 cm (width) x 160cm (height) x 25cm (depth) Measurements of each piece (2): 225cm (width) x 160cm (height) x 25cm (depth) It is a unique opportunity to acquire two exclusive pieces in the world of antiques.
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Late 18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Wood, Giltwood

Master of the Neapolitan School of the 17th Century. Vision of Saint Francis
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Master of the Neapolitan School of the 17th Century. Vision of Saint Francis Description The saint of the order, identified by his wounds, is depicted in a sleeping posture. Accord...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

18th Century Italian School David and Goliath (by Guido Reni)
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
18th Century Italian School David and Goliath (by Guido Reni) Oil on first canvas, defects and shortcomings 147x104cm; work without frame.
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

17th Century English School Portrait of " Elizabeth Kinnersley "
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th Century English School Portrait of Elizabeth Kinnersley Oil on canvas, 114.5x93cm; work without frame good conditions
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17th Century English Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

17th Century Italian School "ECCE AGNUS DEI"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century Italian School "ECCE AGNUS DEI" oil on canvas Dec. 70 x 90 cm good condition.
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Naples School of the 17th Century Circle Andrea Vaccaro "Magdalene"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Naples School of the 17th Century Circle Andrea Vaccaro "Magdalene" Oil on canvas. Relining. 95.5 x 72 cm good conditions
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Diego Velázquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660) circle of Portrait of a Leader 17th
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Diego Velázquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660) circle of Portrait of a Leader 17th Century Oil painting on canvas 99 x 73.5 cm The painting shows significant elements of seventeenth-c...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Entourage of Francois De Troy 'Toulouse 1645-1730 Paris' "Portrait"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
ENTOURAGE OF FRANCOIS DE TROY (TOULOUSE 1645-1730 PARIS) Portrait of a young mulatto aristocrat Oil on canvas Measures: 80 x 63 cm.
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

17th century Italian School "Crucifix"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century Italian School "Crucifix" Oil on canvas Sell ​​the wax in the reverse to decipher 52.5 x 30.5 cm Good conditions
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Spanish school Painting “Calvario”Baroque - Vallisoletana School
By Spanish Manufactory
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind oil on canvas made at the end of the 17th century. The work deals with the scene of Calvary, present, therefore, Christ crucified, his mother the Virgin Mary to her ri...
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Late 17th Century European Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Giltwood, Paint

17th century French School, follower of Charles and Henri BEAUBRUN
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century French School, follower of Charles and Henri BEAUBRUN Presumed portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier Oil on canvas (Re-backed, restorations)...
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

17th century Italian School "Holy Family with St. John the Baptist"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century Italian School "Holy Family with St. John the Baptist" Oil on canvas (Original canvas, restorations, missing parts) Signed on reverse: "Philippo G---aluni fecit". 49....
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Early 17th century French School "Virgin and Child "
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Early 17th century French School "Virgin and Child " Oil on canvas (Original canvas, restorations, gaps) 71.5 x 60.3 cm Provenance Duc de Lesdiguières, according to an old label ...
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

17th century French School "Virgin and Child (Virgin of the Rosary)"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century French School "Virgin and Child (Virgin of the Rosary)" Oil on canvas (Fragment, original canvas, tension bands, restorations) 47.3 x 37.9 cm This canvas was probably...
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

French School 17th Century"Portrait with Coat of Arms Margueritte de Boutteville
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
French School of 1659 17th century "Portrait with Coat of arms of Margueritte Pierre de Boutteville" around 1659 Oil on canvas with coat of arms and dated top right Provenance: Bel...
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17th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

ENGLISH SCHOOL "Sea Port" 18th Century
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
ENGLISH SCHOOL "Sea Port" 18th Century Oil on canvas, Dim: 37 x 62 cm ( without frame ) good conditions
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Early 18th Century English Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Venetian School of the 18th century "Saint John"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
Venetian School of the 18th century. "Saint John" oil painting on canvas 47cm x 37cm without frame 60cm x 50cm with frame good conditions
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paint

Old Engraving from the xvii Century: Nicolas Paussin, 1677
Located in Madrid, ES
Old engraving from the 17th century: Nicolas Paussin 1677 Large seventeenth century engraving dated 1677. With very decorative back frame total measures: 91x71 cm and only the engra...
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17th Century Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Paper

18th Century Oil on Canvas Painting with Characters
Located in Marbella, ES
Picture with characters painted in oil on canvas from the 18th century. The painting represents characters in an everyday street scene, the frame is made of gilded wood, on the back...
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18th Century European Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Wood

Roman Mosaic, 5th Century, Italy
Located in Girona, Spain
DESCRIPTION: Roman mosaic made with marble. Very decorative piece. Provenance: Private Swiss collection, since 1950. CONDITION: Very good vintage condition. DIMENSIONS: Height: 240...
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Marble

18th Century Pair of Solomon Columns with Carved and Polychrome Grapes in Wood
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Pair of Solomon Columns with Carved and Polychrome Grapes in Wood
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18th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Wood

Sacrifice of the Mosaic Law. Oil on copper. 17th century, after RUBENS.
Located in Madrid, ES
Sacrifice of the Mosaic Law. Oil on copper. 17th century, inspired by RUBENS, Pedro Pablo (Siegen, 1577-Antwerp, 1640). Oil on panel showing a figurative scene located in a building...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Copper, Other

18th Century Spanish Hand-Painted Wooden Panel with Religious Scenes
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish Hand-Painted Wooden Panel with Religious Scenes. Birth of Christ
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18th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

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Wood

Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating Esther seated and attended by handmaidens, one washing her feet in golden basin, another fastening a bracelet, another offering a mirror, all observed by Mordecai, woven in the workshop of Michele Audran after a design by J. F. de Troy. The Toilet of Esther c.1778-85.Royal Collection Trust-Queens Audience Chamber Windsor Castle The Sketches for the Esther Cycle by Jean-François de Troy (1736) “and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor’decai, ..., took for his own daughter.” (Est. 2:7) A supple and undulating genius, both a flattering portraitist and a prolix history painter, as well as a brilliant genre painter, in a gallant or worldly vein, Jean-François de Troy (Paris, 1679 – Rome, 1752), solicited, although he had passed the threshold of old age, a new royal commission up to his ambitions. To obtain it, he submitted – successfully - for the approval of the Bâtiments du roi (administration), seven modelli painted in 1736 with his usual alacrity. Inspired by one of the most novelistic texts of the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, these sketches in a rapid and virtuoso manner were transformed by the artist, between 1737 and 1740 into large cartoons intended to serve as models for the weavers of the Gobelins factory. Showing undeniable ease and skill in the composition in perfect harmony with the sensitivities of the times, the tapestry set met with great success. The Story of Esther perfectly corresponded to the plan of the Bâtiments du roi to renew the repertoire of tapestry models used for the weavers of the royal factories while it also conformed to the tastes of Louis XV’s subjects for a fantastical Orient, the set for a dramatic tale in which splendour, love and death were combined. Indeed, no tapestry set was woven in France during the 18th century as often as that of Esther. The series of modelli painted by de Troy during the year 1736 looks to the history of French painting and decoration under Louis XV as much as it does the history of the Gobelins. It probably counts among the most important rococo pictorial groups to have remained in private hands. First the Biblical source illustrated by De Troy which constitutes the base of one of the richest iconographical traditions of Western art will be considered. Then the circumstances and specific character of French civilisation during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV which contributed to making the theme of Esther a relevant subject, both attractive to contemporaries and remarkably in line with the sensitivities of the time will be elucidated. An examination of the exceptional series of sketches united here, the cartoons and the tapestries that they anticipate as well as a study of their reception will close this essay. The Book of Esther: A scriptural source at the source of rich iconography. The origin of the Esther tapestry set by Jean-François de Troy – origin and creation of a masterpiece According to the evidence of one of the artist’s early biographers, the chevalier de Valory, author of a posthumous elegy of the master, read at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 6 February 1762, it was apparently due to early16 rivalry with François Lemoyne (1688-1737), his younger colleague who had precisely just been appointed First Painter to the King in 1736, that had encouraged François de Troy to seek a commission allowing him to show off his ease and his promptitude at the expense of a rival who was notoriously laborious: “M. De Troy, retaining some resentment of the kind of disadvantage which he believed to have suffered compared with his emulator looked to regain some territory by making use of the facility his rival did not possess. Lemoyne was excessively long in the creation of his works,and M. De Troy of a rare celerity: consequently, with this particular talent, the latter offered to the court to make paintings appropriate to be executed at the Gobelins Factory; and it is to this circumstance that we owe the beautiful series of the Story of Esther, which would be sufficient alone to give him a great reputation.”17 Beyond the suspicion inspired by the topos, which still constitutes, more or less, a tale of rivalries between artists in ancient literature, there is probably some truth in what Valory reports although A.-J. Dezalier d’Argenville (who indicates rather spitefully that de Troy did not hesitate to “cut prices” to impose himself, benefitting from the productivity assured by the unlikely rapidity of his brush)18 proves to be more evasive: “As he looked to busy himself, he had offered to make the paintings that serve as models for the King’s tapestries cheaply: which did not please his colleagues. He was given a choice of two tapestry series to be made and he took the Story of Esther and that of Jason”.19 Whether or not the choice was actually left to de Troy (which would appear rather casual on the royal administration’s part all the same), it seems likely that the artist, whose contemporaries extol his “fire”, as the faculty of invention was then called, must have ardently aspired to the possibility of using on a very large scale the “creative genius” with which Dezallier d’Argenville credits him. The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area. Other than painting for altarpieces, only tapestries could allow comparison with Lemoyne who had been granted – unfortunately for him – a major decoration: the enormous ceiling of the Hercules Room at Versailles. Favoured by the recent improvement in France’s financial situation, the revival of patronage offered de Troy a commission fitting for him, in a field in which, however, he had hardly any experience. Anxious to renew the repertoire of models available to the Gobelins factory, the Duc d’Antin, surintendant des Bâtiments du roi from 1708 to 1736 followed by his successor, Philibert Orry comte de Vignory, gave him the task of producing seven large cartoons inspired by the Book of Esther corresponding to the brilliant sketches or modelli which de Troy had produced in one go, or almost (very few preparatory drawings can in fact be linked to the Esther cycle and all seem to be at the execution stage of the cartoons).20 Subjected to the approval of the Administration des Bâtiments according to the procedure in use for projects being planned for the Gobelins, sketches made rapidly during 1736 were approved and the project launched immediately. Thereupon came the news of François Lemoyne’s death, who, ground down by work and a victim of his private torment, committed suicide on 4 June 1737. Against all expectations, de Troy did not replace his rival in the position of First Painter (which remained vacant until the appointment of Charles Coypel in January 1747), which would perhaps have made him too obviously the beneficiary of the drama. The awarding of the position of Director of the French Academy in Rome came to console him while he had already produced (or he was in the process of finishing), in Paris, three of the seven cartoons of the cycle (The Fainting of Esther finished in 1737 and the Toilet and Coronation of Esther, both finished in 1738). De Troy, we can see, did not follow the order of the narrative but began with the subjects which apparently offered the least difficulty because he had already depicted them, or because they fall into a strong pictorial tradition (such is the case especially for the Fainting of Esther). He had hardly settled at the Palazzo Mancini in August 1738, when his first task which awaited the new director of the French Academy naturally consisted of honouring the royal commission and finishing without delay the final cartoons of the Story of Esther after the sketches he must have taken with him. As prompt as ever, de Troy discharged himself of the execution of the four remaining cartoons in only two years, by beginning with the largest format which allowed him to strike the imagination and to impose himself as soon as he arrived on the Roman stage: the Triumph of Mor’decai which was finished in 1739 (like Esther’s Banquet). The following year, the Mor’decai's Disdain and The Sentencing of Haman were brought to an end in the same Neo-Venetian style, obviously tributary to Veronese with its choice of “open” monumental architecture which is characteristic of the entire cycle.21 The series, it should be noted, was almost augmented with some additional scenes in the mid 1740s. Indeed, the first tapestry set finished at the Gobelins in 1744 proved to be unsuitable for the arrangement of the Dauphine’s apartments at Versailles for which it had been intended to decorate the walls the following year (cf infra). Informed of this, de Troy, considering that the story of Esther offered “several good subjects,” immediately offered to illustrate one or new subject among those “which could appear to be the most interesting”. The directeur des Bâtiments Orry, who managed the State’s accounts, obviously judged it less costly to have one of the tapestries widened to fill in the end of the Dauphine’s bedroom,22 which has probably deprived us of very original compositions, because de Troy had already illustrated the most famous themes, those that benefitted from a strongly established iconographical tradition and from which it was not easy to deviate The Tapestry Set of the Story of Esther Placed on the tapestry looms of the Gobelins at the end of the 1730s in Michel Audran’s workshop, the cycle created by de Troy aroused true infatuation. The few hundred tapestries made between 1738 and 1797 – all in high-warp tapestry and woven in wool and silk except for four in low-warp made in Neilson’s workshop – show the impressive success of a tapestry set that was without any doubt the most frequently woven of the 18th century in France. 29 Only three cartoons had been delivered by de Troy in 1738 when the first tapestry set was begun by Audran under the expert eye of Jean-Baptiste Oudry to whom the Directeur général des bâtiments, Philibert Orry had assigned the (weekly) supervision of the weaving. During the summer of 1738, the piece of the Fainting of Esther, which Oudry judged to be admirable, was finished. During the winter of 1742, Oudry informed Orry that about two ells of the Triumph of Mor’decai had been made “with no faults”,that the Coronation of Esther was finished and that the Esther at her Toilet “a very gracious tapestry” was “a little over half” finished. Exhibited at Versailles in 1743, these two last pieces were admired by Louis XV and the Court. On 3 December 1744, the set of seven tapestries was finally delivered to the Garde Meuble. It was intended, the honour was not slight, to decorate the apartments of the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain whose marriage to the young Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand had been fixed for the following year (it took place on 23 February 1745). Apparently it was thought that the theme of Esther the biblical heroine and wife of a foreign sovereign was appropriate for the apartments of the Spanish Dauphine. As early as the month of March, the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel informed de Troy that her grand cabinet was decorated with the “Esther tapestry set” specifying however that “for lack of two small or one large piece, we have not been able to decorate the end of the room”. This difficulty led immediately to the Banquet episode being woven a second time in two parts (they were delivered to the Garde-Meuble on 30 December 1746) to garnish the panels on each side of the bed of the Dauphine who would hardly enjoy them (she died on 22 July 1746 and the decoration was installed for the new Dauphine Maria Josepha of Saxony). The appearance of the set’s remarkable border, which imitated a richly sculpted wooden frame, should be mentioned. Conceived in 1738 by the ornamentalist Pierre Josse-Perrot and used in the later weavings until 1768, it tended to reinforce the resolutely painterly appearance of the tapestry set which, in this regard, pushed the art of tapestry as far as its ultimate mimetic possibilities. With the exception of Mor’decai's Disdain which had been removed earlier, the “editio princeps” of the story of Esther (from then on in nine pieces) remained at Versailles until the Revolution. Of the eight surviving tapestries, four are at the chateau of Compiègne and four belong today to the Mobilier National. No less than seven tapestry sets reputed to be complete (one of them in fact only had six tapestries) would be produced officially at the Gobelins up to 1772. Literature: 1- The Œuvres mêlées of an emulator of Racine, the Abbé Augustin NADAL thus include an Esther. Divertissement spiritual which is exactly contemporary with Jean François de Troy’s cycle since it was performed in 1735 and published in Paris three years later. 2-Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1751, 1785 ed., p. 96-97 for French ed. 3- Lemoyne and de Troy had been obliged to share the First Prize in the competition organised in 1727 between the most prominent history painters of the Académie Royale. 4- Mémoires…, pub. L. DUSSIEUX et al., 1854, II, p.265. 5-The fact that de Troy, at the risk of falling out with his colleagues, did not hesitate to make use of prices in order to convince the new directeur des Bâtiments Philibert Orry, is confirmed by Mariette who adds tersely “it caused much shouting” (pub. 1851-1860, II, p. 103). 6- Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres…, ed. 1762, IV, p. 368-369 20 Early comments on the painter are inclined to present him as a kind of “pure painter”, doing without the medium of drawing, a few intermediary studies between the Esther sketches and the large cartoons at the Louvre nevertheless show that de Troy used red chalk (see in the catalogue, the notice for the Meal of Esther and Ahasuerus under the entry drawing) to change one or other figure. 7-C. GASTINEL-COURAL (cat. exp. PARIS, 1985, p. 9-13) as well as the article by J. VITTET, exh. cat. LA ROCHE-GUYON, 2001, p. 51-55. 8-The Hermitage in St. Petersburg conserves five tapestries of these two royal gifts whose provenance still awaits elucidation (as far as we are aware). In 1766, the Grand Marshal of Russia, Count Razumovski (or Razamowski), acquired the Fainting and the Banquet extracted from the sixth weaving (J. VITTET, 2001, p. 53). 9- Lettres écrites de Suisse, d’Italie…,quoted by J. VITTET, op. cit., p. 54. 10-The tapestry set remained in the hands of a branch of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family until 1933 (ibid. P. 54). 11-Quoted by Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, p. 97, note 269. 12-Y. CANTAREL-BESSON, 1992, p. 241. Catalogue The Esther at her Toilet Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 cm Provenance: Painted in 1736 at the same time as the six other modelli of the Story of Esther intended to be presented, for approval, to the direction des Bâtiments du Roi; perhaps identifiable among a lot of sketches by Jean-François de Troy in the post mortem inventory of the amateur, historian and critic Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) drawn up on 13 January 1786 and following days (A.N. T 978, n° 30) then in the sale of the property of the deceased, Paris, 12 June 1786, n° 33; Paris, François Marcille Collection (who owned a series of six sketches from which the Triumph of Mor’decai was missing, see infra); Paris, Marcille Sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 January 1857, n° 36; Asnières, Mme de Chavanne de Palmassy ( ?) collection; Paris, Galerie Cailleux; Paris, Humbert de Wendel collection (acquired from the Galerie Cailleux in 1928); by inheritance in the same family; Paris, Sotheby’s, 23 June 2011, n° 61. In order not to add unnecessarily to the technical commentary on each work, the catalogue raisonné by Chr. Leribault which contains a substantial bibliography on the series should be referred to. The other bibliographical references only concern the publications and exhibitions to have appeared and been presented more recently. Bibliography and Exhibitions: Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, n° P. 247 (repr.); E. LIMARDO DATURI, 2004, p. 28; Exh. cat. NANTES, 2011, p. 138, n° 34, referred to in note 1; Sotheby’s catalogue, Tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle, 23 June 2011, n° 61 (repr.). Related Works: Tapestry cartoon: The cartoon (oil on canvas, 329 x 320 cm), the third made by the artist in Paris after the sketches had been approved by the direction des Bâtiments, is in the Louvre (Inv. 8315). It previously bore the painter’s signature and the date 1738 (inscriptions which are found on the tapestries). The royal administration paid 1600 livres for it on 21 June 1738 and it was exhibited at the Salon in the year of its creation. Summary Biography 1679 (27 January): Baptism in Paris (Parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) of Jean-François de Troy, son of the painter François de Troy and Jeanne Cotelle, sister of the painter Jean II Cotelle. 1696-1698: Studies (apparently rather turbulent) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. 1698-1708: First trip to Italy. Is obliged to leave Rome in January 1711 after a tempestuous affair (a duel?), de Troy extends the traditional Roman experience as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France by also visiting Tuscany where he stays for a long time, Venice (his art in face has a strongly Venetian character) and Genoa. 1708: De Troy (whose father had been elected Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 July) is agréé and immediately received at the Académie with Apollo and Diana Piercing with their Arrows the Children of Niobe (Montpellier, Musée Fabre) on 28 July. 1710: First royal commission, paid for on 10 May (a sketch representing “the Promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit” for the tapestry series of the History of the King). 1716: Jean-François de Troy is elected Assistant Professor at the Academy. 1720: He is appointed Professor. 1723: The artist creates the double portrait of Louis XV...
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Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Silk, Wool

Piranesi engraving "Trophy of the Dacians" "Bas-relief on Trajan's Column"
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Piranesi engraving "Trophy of the Dacians" "Bas-relief on Trajan's Column"
Category

18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paper

Male Head, Carved Stone, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Male head. Carved stone. Century XVI. Carved stone relief showing a male face turned to the right. It is necessary to highlight both the quality of the fac...
Category

16th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Stone

Pair of engravings by Jean T. Prestel (1739-1808)
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of engravings "Caesar's Baths in Calabria" "The Temple of the Sun in Palmyra" by Jean T. Prestel (1739-1808) With original frames.
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18th Century French Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paper

Piranesi 2 engravings "Frontals of Trajan's column pedestal" XVIII
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Piranesi 2 engravings "Frontals of Trajan's column pedestal" XVIII
Category

18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paper

Allegory of Time. Oil on panel. Circle of Jacob de Backer (act. 1571-1585).
Located in Madrid, ES
Allegory of Time. Oil on panel. Circle of Jacob de Backer (act. Antwerp, 1571-1585). Exhibition: “Reality, time and artifice. Still life and vanitas in baro...
Category

16th Century Belgian Renaissance Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Other

Colonial Spanish oil on canvas " Saint Rose of Lima"
By Colonial Furniture Company
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind oil on canvas made in the 18th century depicting Saint Rose of Lima with the Child Jesus, Colonial School of the Viceroyalty of Peru. The Sa...
Category

1780s Peruvian Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

18th Century Set of Six Engraving Design for a Clock by J.F Forty
By Jean François Forty 1
Located in Madrid, ES
Set of six engravings design clocks and barometers by J.F. Forty from the 18th century, the six engravings are framed hand painted imitating marble.
Category

Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paper

16th Century Spanish Corinthian Pair of Pilasters Polychromed and Gilded w/ Gold
Located in Marbella, ES
16th Century Spanish Corinthian Pair of Pilasters Polychromed and Gilded w/ Gold
Category

17th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Wood

Wall Decoration Gregorian Chant on Parchment Sheet
Located in Barcelona, ES
Large manuscript sheet with Gregorian Chant on parchment "Sacerdos In Eternum" Gregorian Chant composition book sheet as wall decoration, Spain before XVth century...
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15th Century and Earlier Spanish Medieval Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Wood, Parchment Paper

Indian Pair of Panels with Mirror Work and Hand Painted Glass
Located in Marbella, ES
Indian Pair of Panels with Mirror Work and Hand-painted Glass.
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18th Century Indian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Mirror, Wood

Views of the Veneto Venetian School of the Xvll Century with Original Frames
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Views of the Veneto Venetian school of the XVll century with original frames. Not relining. Inventory labels on the rack.
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17th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paint

18th Century Italian Hand Painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and framed landscape painting.
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18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Alabaster

18th Century Spanish, Hand-Painted Glazed Ceramic Plate from Triana
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish hand-painted glazed ceramic plate from Triana.
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18th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Ceramic

Bronze Bassin for Holy Water, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Holy wall font. Bronze. Spain, 17th Century. Small font for holy water designed to be placed on a wall, which has a container decorated with moldings and architectural elements and...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Bronze, Other

18th Century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Italian hand painted on alabaster and framed landscape painting.
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18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Alabaster, Gold

18th Century Italian Hand Painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and framed landscape painting.
Category

18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Alabaster, Gold

18th Century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Italian hand-painted on alabaster and framed landscape painting.
Category

18th Century Italian Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Alabaster, Gold

Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Oil on Copper Possibly late 17th century
By Guido Reni
Located in Madrid, ES
Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Oil on Copper Possibly late 17th century Following models by Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575-1642). Has faults. Oil on copper that shows the Virgin Mary seated on clouds...
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Late 17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Copper, Other

Pine Wood Niche, Spanish School, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Niche. Gilded and polychrome pine wood. Spain, 17th century. Niche made of carved and gilded pine wood, decorated with moldings, a venerated shape and plant elements in the upper p...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Other

Color Lithography of Venice, 18th Century
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Color lithography of Venice, 18th century Printed by Jacques Chereu. The frame doesn’t has a glass.  
Category

18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Paper

18th Century Spanish Decorative Finial Carved in Wood
Located in Marbella, ES
18th Century Spanish Decorative Finial Carved in Wood
Category

18th Century Spanish Antique Spain - Wall Decorations

Materials

Gold

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