Mid-17th Century Figurative Paintings

A great 17th-century Italian painting. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a marvelous mythological subject, a lively Venetian Bacchanal. The painting is in fact attributable to the circ...

This not signed very interesting oil painting on canvas dates back to the mid-17th century. It depicts the Virgin Mary kneeling and reading the Book of Hours. It is the work of an ...

Antique Painting of 1600s Banquet with Figures Memento Mori after Giovanni Martinelli death comes to the banquet table-memento mori circa 1635. The oil on canvas painting (lined with...

An important 17th-century Italian painting. This oil on canvas artwork depicts the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the presence of Emperor Valerian, one of the most powerful and wides...

Great Italian painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork, first canvas, depicting a splendid portrait of Julius Caesar. The painting in question seems to...

Roman Charity is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas, realized after a painting by Dirck van Baburen (1595-1624). This painting depicts the ...

Penitent Magdalene Italian painter of the 17th century Oil on copper in gilt frame Size: 22x17 cm (33x28 cm including frame) Mary Magdalene is the repentant sinner who washed Jesus'...

17th-century Flemish oil-on-copper painting depicting a foreshortened landscape with figures, a genre scene with a multitude of crowded characters in a street with classical architec...

This painting (oil on paper applied to wood panel, 18 x 12, 5 cm) is a valuable example of the production of small-format works, thus aimed at a private audience, which was very comm...

Study of a dog Oil on paper laid down on panel, 17.5 x 25.5 cm Provenance Private collection, the Netherlands Note: We are grateful to Mr Fred Meijer for his attribution to Ludolf de Jongh Ludolf de Jongh was the son of a shoemaker. When his father moved to Rotterdam, the young Ludolf decided to learn art rather than shoemaking and became a pupil of Cornelis Saftleven. Later he studied under Anthony Palamedes in Delft and still later with Jan van Bijlert in Utrecht. In 1635 he travelled to France with Francis Bacon. Seven years later, in 1642, he returned to the Netherlands when he heard that his mother had fallen ill. He set up a shop in Rotterdam, and his earliest signed paintings date from that year. According to Houbraken, his travels had caused him to speak French so fluently, that his parents had to learn French in order to speak with him. De Jongh’s work shows a strong influence from the Utrecht school of Caravaggio admirers, especially Jacob Duck...