Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11

Unknown
18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist

About the Item

18th Century European Portrait of a Child Saint John the Baptist Oil on Canvas 19 x 14 1/4 inches This lovely and sensitively painting has been examined by a professional restorer who was formerly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and now works and consults privately. Based on the materials, style and execution, it is of "the period," that being 18th century. As for the chalk writing on the writing on recto of the frame that seem to indicate an auction lot number from 1995, those are possibly from Christie's auction house. As of yet, Christie's has not clarified that the painting did in fact go through one of their sales. These notations will be discussed further at such a time as we hear back from Christie's.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    The painting is in very fine condition having only minor restorative work done.
  • Gallery Location:
    SANTA FE, NM
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU140826603112
More From This SellerView All
You May Also Like
  • Head of an Angel
    Located in New York, NY
    Procaccini was born in Bologna, but his family moved to Milan when the artist was eleven years old. His artistic education was evidently familial— from his father Ercole and his elder brothers Camillo and Carlo Antonio, all painters—but his career began as a sculptor, and at an early age: his first known commission, a sculpted saint for the Duomo of Milan, came when he was only seventeen years old. Procaccini’s earliest documented painting, the Pietà for the Church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan, was completed by 1604. By this time the artist had made the trip to Parma recorded by his biographers, where he studied Correggio, Mazzola Bedoli, and especially Parmigianino; reflections of their work are apparent throughout Procaccini's career. As Dr. Hugh Brigstocke has recently indicated, the present oil sketch is preparatory for the figure of the angel seen between the heads of the Virgin and St. Charles Borrommeo in Procaccini's altarpiece in the Church of Santa Afra in Brescia (ill. in Il Seicento Lombardo; Catalogo dei dipinti e delle sculture, exh. cat. Milan 1973, no. 98, pl. 113). As such it is the only known oil sketch of Procaccini's that can be directly connected with an extant altarpiece. The finished canvas, The Virgin and Child with Saints Charles Borrommeo and Latino with Angels, remains in the church for which it was painted; it is one of the most significant works of Procaccini's maturity and is generally dated after the artist's trip to Genoa in 1618. The Head of an Angel is an immediate study, no doubt taken from life, but one stylistically suffused with strong echoes of Correggio and Leonardo. Luigi Lanzi, writing of the completed altarpiece in 1796, specifically commented on Procaccini's indebtedness to Correggio (as well as the expressions of the angels) here: “Di Giulio Cesare...
    Category

    17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Paper, Oil

  • 18th Century, Antique Oil Painting, Old Master. Portrait of Mother with child.
    Located in Berlin, DE
    18th century, antique painting, oil on canvas, old master. Mother with child. Relined canvas. Stretcher frame also renewed. Artist unknown.
    Category

    18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • 17th Century, Old Master, "King Basileus Alexander of Macedon Magnus, the Great"
    Located in Berlin, DE
    Very decorative, 17th century, old master painting, oil on canvas, King Alexander Magnus, the great. Illustration of two children, putti, with wreaths of flowers on a board (or maus...
    Category

    17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • 18th century oil painting English portrait of a gent in armor, wearing a wig
    By studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller
    Located in Woodbury, CT
    Outstanding early 18th century English portrait of James Bellevue. The portrait was always believed to be the work of Sir Godfrey Kneller who was known to have painted James Bellevu...
    Category

    Early 1700s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Fine English Georgian Period Oil Painting Portrait of a Country Squire Gentleman
    Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    Portrait of a Country Gentleman English School, circa 1800 oil on canvas, unframed *see below painting: 30 x 25 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound c...
    Category

    Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • PORTRAIT OF A GENTLMEN - French School -Portrait Italian Oil on Canvas Painting
    By Eugenio De Blasi
    Located in Napoli, IT
    Portrait of a Gentlemen - Oval oil on canvas cm.50x40, Italia, 2006 Eugenio De Blasi Wooden frame available on request The portrait of Eugenio De Blasi is inspired by one of the many portraits painted by Guillam Francois Colson, a French historian painter, who painted portraits of families...
    Category

    Early 2000s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

Recently Viewed

View All