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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
"Perseus Rescuing Andromeda" Oil on Canvas Large Old Master Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
"Perseus Rescuing Andromeda" Masterful Old Master Oil on Canvas Painting, Large size, framed. Painting depicts the dramatic scene from Greek mythology where Perseus, the hero, saves ...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Madonna With Child Italian Painting Late 17th Century
Located in Milano, MI
Madonna and Child late 1600s, oil painting on canvas from northern Italy, in good condition, within walnut frame, from a private collection in Milan. The work depicts the Virgin hol...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Nutwood
17th Century Flemish Old Master Painting Circle of Frans Francken.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
17th Century Flemish Old Master Painting Circle of Frans Francken
Rare 17th century Flemish School painting, circle of Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642). This Cabinet picture, ...
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Dutch Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
17th Century Onorio Marinari Italian Religious Painting
By Onorio Marinari
Located in Roma, IT
A very important painting by the great artist of the Florentine school, Onorio Marinari.
Dr. Silvia Benassai has confirmed Marinari’s authorship of the Saint Margaret of Antioch; available on demand, a historical-artistic fact sheet prepared by Dr. Silvia Benassai
Onorio Marinari (1627 – 5 January 1715) was a very important Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence.
His father, Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari, was also a painter, and he trained with his cousin, Carlo Dolci, later being also influenced by Simone Pignoni and Francesco Furini.
His fresco in the Palazzo Capponi, Florence, is dated 1707. He worked mainly in Florence for Florentine and Tuscan clients, but he did not devote himself only to painting.
In fact, in 1674, he published an essay on astronomy entitled Fabbrica ed uso dell' Annulo Astronomico. Bartolomeo Bimbi was one of his pupils.
St. Margaret of Antioch
July 20, Martyr
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Antique Indo Persian Mughal Architectural Painting
Located in New York, NY
An antique Indo Persian Mughal Art miniature gouache painting on antique manuscript leaf depicting an architectural building with fine details. Circa: late 18th century to early 19th...
Category
Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique 18th Century Rococo Portrait Painting of an Aristocratic Lady
Located in Sakskøbing, DK
This late 18th century stunning Rococo portrait portrays an aristocratic lady with grey hair, decorated with flowers and a blue ribbon, reflecting the era’s love for elegant fashion....
Category
French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1660-1669) Reproduction GHI.M.A Authorized
Located in Taranto, IT
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) Reproduction GHI.M.A Authorized
Measures:
Height 57 cm
Width 68 cm
Technique oil on canvas
The company GHI.M.A. certifies that the relief, the app...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Italian Antique Oil Painting on Canvas, Madonna in prayer
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We are pleased to present this captivating religious painting of the Italian school, painted in oil on canvas in the 18th century. This wonderful painting depicting the Madonna in pr...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
LATE 18th-EARLY 19th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG POET
Located in Firenze, FI
Magnificent almond-shaped portrait of a young poet, painted in oil on canvas and framed in a fine carved and gilded wooden frame. At the cente...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique woodblock painting of a Myo-o king/Edo period painting/wall decoration
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a Buddhist painting on board, estimated to have been painted around the Edo period (1603-1868). The plate depicts a Myoo image similar to Zao Gongen or Fudo Myoo, with his ri...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Cedar
Antique Painting Grape and Melon Eaters After Bartolome' Murillo 18th Century
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in London, GB
This is a delightful antique Spanish oil on canvas painting after Bartolome' Esteban Murillo, depicting two peasant boys eating grapes and melon, Circa 1780 in date.
It features a ...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th/19th Century Dutch Painting in Oil on Canvas after Johannes Vermeer
By (attributed to) Johannes Verelst
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th/19th Century Dutch Painting in Oil on Canvas after Johannes Vermeer
Antique painting after the famous motif, “Young Women with a Water Pitcher” by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)...
Category
Unknown Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
17th Century Old Master Painting, Large Battle Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Bradenton, FL
17th Century Large Old Master Battle Scene Painting. Flemish School, circa 1610 - 1680. Oil on canvas painting depicts a dynamic battle scene fi...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Cuzco School Oil on Canvas Madonna and Child 18th Century
Located in Bradenton, FL
Remarkable Spanish colonial late 18th/early 19th-century Cuzco school painting of Madonna and Child, or Virgin Mary. Oil on canvas Cuzco school painting with a desirable aged patina ...
Category
Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Pines and Cranes
Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School.
Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700.
Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens.
Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper.
This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
17th Century, Flemish Painting Oil on Copper with Allegory by Pieter Van Lint
By Peter Van Lint
Located in IT
Pieter Van Lint (Antwerp, 1609-1690)
Allegory of industriousness leading to peace and abundance
Oil on copper; frame measures cm H 132 x W 159 x D 8, copper measures cm H 104 x W 130
Artwork signed (bottom center) "P.V. Lint F./ en A.B"
The important and valuable painting, made of oil on copper, depicts the Allegory of industriousness that leads to peace and abundance.
The work is signed in the bottom and center "P V Lint", or Pieter Van Lint (Antwerp, 28 June 1609 - Antwerp, 25 September 1690), famous Flemish painter and designer active in Antwerp in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Van Lint elaborates a complex and articulated composition in which he inserts several figures also drawn from mythology to propose the allegorical message of industriousness that leads to peace and abundance. The artistic style of the author is characterized by meticulous realism and by the careful attention to detail and the rendering of the materials that make up the objects described. As we will see later, every detail represented within the work contains a symbolic and allegorical meaning that reinforces the message that already the same figures express.
The remarkable dimensions of the copper support, not so infrequent in the artistic production of the artist, contribute to make the work of great value: Unfortunately, many of these artifacts have been lost because copper was often recovered in times of war and famine, and reused to obtain weapons and common tools. The copper foil proved to be ideal for oil painting because it constituted a non-absorbent support, rigid, smooth and characterized by the same reddish coloring that was used for the preparation of funds. The major production centers were Antwerp, Hamburg and Amsterdam, although the technique was widely used in Italy.
The considerable cost of the material indicates a wealthy client, interested in possessing a valuable and durable work over time, this characteristic that the metal foil has more than the canvas.
The painting is known to scholars. It is recorded in the catalog of the artist of the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History (with measures 104 x 129 cm). He also appeared on the French antiques market...
Category
Belgian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Copper
Large Antique Oil on Canvas Painting of Saint Joseph W. Lily and the Child Jesus
Located in Lisse, NL
Early religious work of art, presented in the original antique frame.
This beautiful and uplifting portrait of Saint Joseph holding hands with the child Jesus is an oil on canvas an...
Category
European Baroque Revival Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Paint, Wood, Linen
Oil Painting of Jesus Christ Carrying The Cross, Italy Early 18th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Religious oil painting on canvas of Jesus Christ carrying the cross on the way to his crucifixion. This European piece of art is probably 17th-18th Century. This art piece was disc...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
18th C Peruvian Cuzco School Oil on Canvas of Archangel Michael defeating Satan
Located in Hastings, GB
Peruvian Cuzco School Oil on Canvas of the Archangel Michael defeating Satan 18th Century.
Later Frame.
Wear commensurate with age.
The Cuzco or Cusco school was a Roman Catho...
Category
Peruvian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
18th Century Giacomo Guardi Old Master Painting of Venetian Lagoon, Provenance
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th century Giacomo Guardi old master painting of Venetian Lagoon. Provenance.
Old master painting in oil on canvas by the artist Giacomo Guardi (1764...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Spanish Colonial Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Spanish Colonial Painting of Christ on the Cross with a floral border. Painting inscribed at bottom BER DADERAFE DELSD LOS MILAGROS(translates to “True Faith of the Lord...
Category
Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century, Italian Giltwood & Paint Decorated Planter - Mirrored Back
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italy, 18th century.
This magnificent 18th-century Italian planter is a captivating example of Rococo Baroque craftsmanship, featuring an elegant French blue painted background that...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood, Paint
Madame Rimsky-Korsakov by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873, Germany)
By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Located in Taranto, IT
Madame Rimsky-Korsakov by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873, Germany).
Measures:
Height 67 cm
Width 57 cm
Print on canvas
In good conservative condition, present signs of t...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fine Museum Quality Large Antique 18th Century Greek Orthodox Icon, Pentecost
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional, museum quality very large 18th century Greek icon of the Pentecost.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, primed with gesso.
Attributed to Mount Athos...
Category
Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood
1940's Vintage Original French Floral Oil Painting Framed and Signed by Artist
Located in COLMAR, FR
A simple but beautiful, vintage still-life of a potted pink bégonia. The painting has been sourced in eastern France and is most likely French or Swiss by origine. According to the l...
Category
French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
18th Century Tibetan Thangka Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A rare striking 18th century Tibetan Thangka depicting the Green Tara seated on a lotus throne ready to step down to offer comfort and pro...
Category
Tibetan Tibetan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Linen, Paint
Japanese Screen Painting, circa 1700 'Horses' by Kano Tanshin
Located in Kyoto, JP
Horses
Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718)
Two-panel tea-ceremony Japanese screen or furosaki
Ink on gold leaf,
late 17th-early 18th century
Measures: H 55 cm x W 182 cm
The Kano school was closely aligned with the warrior class in Japan. The samurai, who lived in a closed and rigid hierarchical society established by the Shogunate, were drawn to the energy and freedom horses symbolize; Kano school artists commonly depicted the equine creatures as they are here, in unfettered and carefree family groups. China originally introduced horse paintings to Japan; the works typically focused on capturing the essence of horses in their various environments and often involved integrating human figures into the images.
Kano Tanshin Morimasa (1653-1718) was the son of Kano Tanyu...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Fox Hunter on Horse with Hounds, Attributed to Gilpin, Oil on Canvas, Circa 1790
Located in Kinderhook, NY
An exquisite circa 1790 equestrian oil on canvas of a red-coated and bewigged gentleman fox hunter with outstretched arm and hand holding cap, 'riding to hounds' on a galloping bay h...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Italian School, Madonna Of Divine Love, On Panel, 17th/18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Italian school 17th / 18th century: oil on framed panel, representing The Virgin and Child Jesus, accompanied by Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a child, in the foreground
A...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice - exquisite oil on panel
Located in TEYJAT, FR
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice - exquisite oil on panel, unsigned.
This is a superb oil painting of one of the most famous scenes in Venice, dated around the mid 18th centu...
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood
Spanish 17th Century Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
An outstanding 17th century Oil Painting of Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint and virgin, martyred in the early fourth century by t...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Large Dutch Painting Still Life with Fruit and Game, Oil on Canvas
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This large, old master still life painting is a perfectly balanced composition of fruit and game birds. In the foreground a rabbit is stretched out. A copper kettle and a basket are ...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
17th Century Tibetan Thangka Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
An incredible and rare 17th century (Ming Dynasty) Tibetan Thangka depicting the Medicine Buddha seated on a lotus throne with an alms bowl in one hand, and his other hand with outstretched fingers touching the ground, feeling the pulse of the Earth. The Buddha is surrounded by dozens of monks seated...
Category
Tibetan Tibetan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Linen, Paint
Antique Large Dutch School Old Master "Still Life" Oil Painting, 18th Century
Located in Norton, MA
Dutch School (18th century)
Still Life with Lobster and Fruit
oil on canvas
68 x 98 1/2 cm (26 3/4 x 38 9/16 in).
framed 86 1/2 x 117 x 6 cm. (34 x 46 x 2 2/5 in.)
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Hand-Coloured Scene from Cloister Vaults in the Raphael Loggias, Vatican, No. IV
Located in Kastrup, DK
Giovanni Ottaviani (Italy, 1735-1808)
Title: Scene from Cloister Vaults in the Raphael Loggias, Vatican
Large, exquisitely hand-coloured etching from the series Loggie di Rafaele ne...
Category
Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
17th Century Painting
Located in Miami, FL
17th century painting
J.Castano
17th century
Spain
Category
Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mid-18th Century Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Flowers, Chrysanthemums
Located in Kyoto, JP
Omori Soun (b. 1704)
Chrysanthemums - One Hundred Flowers
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dating ...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Screen Pair, circa 1730, Peacocks and Phoenix, Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Phoenix and Peacocks.
A pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens by Tsunetake Yotei (n.d.)
First half of the 18th century.
The signature reads 67 year old Tsunetake.
The seals read:
-Tsunetake no in,
-Yotei,
-Seishin
Dimensions:
Each screen – H. 69” x W. 149” (176 cm x 378 cm)
A pair of Kano Grand Picture (Waga) screens depicting phoenix and peacocks rich with symbolic meaning. Dating to the first half of the 18th century, from the Kobikicho Kano school in Edo, this pair of folding...
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Asian Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
18 th C English Oil on Canvas Painting of Horse and Jockey
Located in Atlanta, GA
English 18 century oil on canvas of horse and jockey painting in carved giltwood frame. This 18 th c English oil on canvas beautifully depict...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
18th century Portrait of Lady Oil on Canvas in Giltwood Frame
Located in Savannah, GA
English oil on canvas portrait dating from the late 1700s painted in the manor of Joshua Reynolds. We believe the giltwood frame could be the original as it is right for the period. ...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair by Soga Nichokuan, Hawks on Pine & Plum Trees
Located in Kyoto, JP
Hawks on plum and pine
Soga Nichokuan (active circa 1625-1660)
Pair of six-fold screens.
Ink, mineral pigments, gofun, gold and speckled gold l...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
16th Century Oil Painting of Emperor Frederic III by School of Hans Burgkmair
Located in London, GB
16th Century Oil Painting on board of the Holy Roman Emperor III by circle or school of Hans Burgkmair the older (1473 - 1531).
Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III. (1415 – 1493).
Oil on wooden panel. Described top right.
In later attractive European gilt frame with black & gilt inner decoration, circa 18th Century.
Hans Burgkmair was a German woodcut...
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German Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 17th Century School of Peter Paul Rubens “The Holy Family” Oil on Canvas
Located in Doha, QA
This is an absolutely incredible early 17th century oil on canvas painting representing Holy Family-Virgin Mary, St.Joseph, St. Elisabeth, John the Baptist and Baby Jesus. Sir Peter ...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Spanish Colonial Cusco School Oil Painting, La Santa Trinidad
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Spanish Colonial Oil On Canvas Painting, La Santa Trinidad (The Holy Trinity). Painting depicts God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit figura...
Category
Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures.
Italian, 18th century large painting in oil on canvas is from the school of Giovan...
Category
Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Chinese Export Watercolor Exotic Bird Paintings on Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade watercolor paintings of exotic birds on branches are in watercolor and gouache on Chinese paper.
One picture depicts a pigeon perched on a tree branch with a landscape background. Chinese calligraphy can be seen in the top right corner. The second picture depicts two courting birds in shades of brown, both perched on a branch, also in a landscape background.
Both paintings framed with a green silk mat and contemporary gilt and dark wood frame.
Reference: Chinese Export...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Indian Mughal School Painting Court Emperors
Located in New York, NY
An antique Indian Mughal School painting, executed in body color on paper, depicting a court scene in the middle. Surrounded by eight portraits of emperors, each meticulously rendered and signed to the side. Dating back to the mid to late 18th century. Framed. Antique Indian Miniature Paintings...
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Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Paint
18th Century Spanish Colonial School, Cuzco, Angel
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th century Spanish Colonial School, Cuzco: Angel, oil on tin. Framed, in good condition. Rich colors of red, blue and white. Inscribed in upp...
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Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Tin
Spanish Colonial Cuzco School 18th C. Oil on Canvas St. Joseph with Christ Child
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th century oil on canvas, St. Joseph with Christ child.
The unidentified artist who painted this bucolic scene, dominated by the figure of the sixteenth-century Portuguese monk Sa...
Category
Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of 18th Century Reverse Paintings on Glass
Located in High Point, NC
Pair of extraordinary reverse paintings on glass of St. Mark and St. John. St. Mark has a lion behind him and St. John has a crow to his right holding a feather. Any reverse painti...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Blown Glass
18th Century Japanese Floral Paintings, Set of 5, Mineral Pigments on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
A set of 5 Japanese floral paintings from the 18th century. Each painted with mineral pigments directly applied to gold leaf. They were originally designed to be mounted on the leave...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Swedish 18th Century Rococo Oil Painting Portraits
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of two noble male and female oil paintings in period delicate ornate Rococo wood frames. This pair of highly detailed portraits were purchased at a Swedish estate in the 1970's.
...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
17th Century Venetian Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
An outstanding and grand 17th century Baroque oil painting on an oval wooden panel of the Madonna and Child. Beautifully executed and stunning patina.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Wood
Jean Antoine Watteau, Circle of, 18th Century Large Old Master Painting, France
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) circle of. 18th century old master painting, France.
With great pride we offer an extremely rare masterpiece from the 18th century, France. This painting is unsigned as most of his works. It has no provenance, but carries with it all the earmarks of the great Rococo style school of Watteau. It pictures one of his famous outdoor parties with a group of frolicking young people. In the background is a reference to a swing, a favored subject in his paintings. The composition of the painting, colors, brushstrokes (especially in the fabric) is clearly Watteau’s studio. This large 18th century canvas...
Category
French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
English Titled 18th c Lady with Coat of Arms Portrait Oil Painting Gilt Frame
Located in Savannah, GA
18th century English noblewoman in a gold gilt ornate period frame. Lovely detail and color, coat of arms in corner. Unsigned.
Without the frame the painting itself measures 29 inche...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Antique Dutch Old Masters Manner Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas painting. Western European, presumably 17th to 18th century. In the style of Dirck van Bergen, 1645 to 1700, a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. The artwork depicts a...
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Antique Venetian Renaissance Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan 1401-1465 Oil on Canvas
Located in Doha, QA
Ludovico Trevisan (November 1401 Venice, Italy - 22nd of March 1465) was an Italian Catholic prelate, who was the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Patriarch of Aquileia and Capta...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
