Oval Allegorical Composition, Circle of Jean Portaels, Belgian School, mid-19th

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As the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman often did, this artist painted travellers stopping at an inn or a farm. One of the men got off his horse to urinate against the facade of the building. The motif of a peeing man was far from an exception in Dutch genre paintings...

Willem Muys was a Dutch, 18th-century painter of history pieces, portraits and cabinet pieces. Above all, he appears to have been active as a painter of ‘wallpaper’. Until the mid-18th century, ‘wallpaper’ was not painted on paper but on coarsely woven linen. Wealthy citizens had their mansions or country estates adorned with ‘wallpaper’ with landscapes, exotic birds or chinoiseries. Willem Muys mainly painted ‘wallpaper’, which means that few of his works have been preserved. They are hardly represented in public collections. The works of his sons, Nicolaas en Robbert, both painters, are a little less rare. The painting with Rebecca and Eliezer...

Pieter Plas placed himself with this pastoral scene in the tradition of the 17th-century painters and draughtsmen such as Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Karel du Jardin, Marcus de Bye an...

« The Roof of Folly: An Allegory of the Fall » This enigmatic 17th-century painting, laden with symbolic content, echoes the allegorical tradition of Hieronymus Bosch, fusing grotes...

Circle of Guillermo Mesquida, Spanish (1675-1747). "The Finding of Moses."

Olio su tela, applicata su faesite nella seconda metà del '900. Il dipinto riprende i modi pittorici del XVIII secolo, con un taglio decorativo. In un paesaggio tranquillo, con strut...

This charming pastoral scene depicts a young woman in traditional dress on a hillside with a small bird perched on her raised finger, while a young child and an attentive dog gather ...

French white painted and gilt framed oval oil painting of ladies in garden (DuBois) (19th Century).