Painting Sketch, 18th Century

An 18th century oil on canvas with its period giltwood frame. Measures: Painting - H: 40 cm, W: 31 cm Frame - H: 58 cm, W: 49 cm, D: 5 cm.

Painting of a man, 20th century. Large painting of an old-fashioned man in a red cape, 20th century, unsigned, unframed. Measures: H: 100 cm, W: 65 cm, D...

Painting of a woman, 20th century Painting, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1981, depicting a young woman in spring attire. Measures: H: 73 cm, W...

Painting of a woman, 20th century Painting, oil on canvas, of a young fashionable woman in a bathrobe, 20th century Measures: H: 65 cm, W: 50 cm,...

Early 19th century miniature painting, gilt bronze frame Painted by Frederic Millet Miniature portrait, bust of a woman by Frederic Millet, circa 1837, Louis-Philippe Period with i...

Abstract art painting. Signed, 20th century.  

Venetian school, 18th century Study with the head of a cherub Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled. The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting. The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...

Charming old Italian village scene of a young girl with her cow and sheep. Oil on canvas in giltwood frame. The painting without the frame measures 19 3/4" high x 22 3/4" wide. Italy...

Very pretty navy at dusk in medallion in its gilded wooden frame. Animated by 2 characters in the foreground, we can see a boat behind the fort, a second just ahead in the cove. Very...

Here is a set of four 18th century Italian paintings depicting various romantic dramas. All four painted in old world style and presented in the original stretchers and frames. Findi...

Venetian School painting of four angels, allegorically depicting the variable winds of change and time. Unsigned, believed to be by a follower of Pietro Li...

Beautiful Chinese painting, 18th century Measures: H. 32 W. 45 cm H. 12.5 W. 17.7 in.