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Period: 17th Century
Landscape with Ruins by the Tivoli Falls
Located in London, GB
Oil on copper
Image size: 15 x 10 1/2 inches (38 x 26.5 cm)
Period style hand made frame
This landscape depicts the area surrounding the Tivoli waterfalls in Italy. Thanks to its proximity in Rome, which lies some 30 km to the Southwest, Tivoli has long been a destination for artists. The Italian landscapists whose work was so coveted by Grand Tourist collectors—Claude, Gaspard Dughet and Salvator Rosa—all sketched there, while the Northern Italianates, including Cornelis van Poelenburgh...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Copper
Allegory of Summer, workshop of Hendrick Van Balen 17th c. Antwerp school
By Hendrick van Balen
Located in PARIS, FR
Allegory of summer, personified by Ceres
Workshop of Hendrick Van Balen
Antwerp School, early 17th century.
Oil on copper,
Dimensions: h. 52 cm, l. 40cm
Antic giltwood frame
Framed dimensions: h. 74 cm, l. 60cm
Very good condition
Our delicately painted work is part of the pictorial tradition that is both allegorical and mythological in vogue in Antwerp, whose leaders are Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick Van Balen. Numerous works emerging from their workshops illustrate mythological subjects, the seasons, the elements, the senses or intertwining the lush landscapes, animals and gods of Olympus.
At the heart of a green landscape dominated in its center by a generous apple tree, the beautiful Ceres, partially dressed in a large blue drape, is wearing a crown of ears of wheat, her symbol of the goddess of the earth and harvests. She holds the sickle in her right hand and carries sheaves of wheat. To her right a nymph holds the cornucopia while puttis pick and offer flowers.
In the foreground are the summer fruits: figs, cherries, apples and lemons. A squirrel munching on cherries symbolizes toil and foresight, themes that are echoed in the work of the harvesters on the wheat fields in the background.
The background is composed of vegetation, on the right a wild rose bush with its branches erect against a tree trunk, in the center of the trees with silvery green foliage.
Our painter, a student of Hendrick Van Balen, finds his inspiration in the works of the master such as this nymph in yellow drapery seen from behind, one of the figures which accompanies many of the master's paintings. The elegant gestures, the flesh...The indisputable influence of Jan Brueghel the Younger is revealed in the treatment of trees and flowers, wild roses, tulips as well as in the still life with the squirrel in the foreground.
The craze for this type of virtuoso painting where the mythological figures are only a pretext to better illustrate the landscape and plant species surrounding them, then generated orders from all over Europe.
Hendrick Van Balen, Flemish painter, born and died in Antwerp (1575-1632). A student of Adam Van Noort, he entered the guild of Saint-Luc in 1593, later trained in Italy and was Van Dyck's first master. He often painted small characters taken from scenes from the Bible or classical mythology, on paintings in which Josse de Momper...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Copper
17th Century by Giuseppe Assereto Portrait of an Elderly Woman Oil on Canvas
By Giuseppe Assereto
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giuseppe Assereto (Genova - 1626 ca – Genova 1656/57)
Title: Portrait of an elderly woman, possible portrait of Maddalena Massone, wife of Gioacchino Assereto
Medium: Oil on canvas
D...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$36,930 Sale Price
21% Off
Still Life with Flowers, Grapes and Mushrooms, XVIIth - XVIIIth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Lombard school of the late 17th-early 18th century. The rich composition offers a large bouquet of colorful flowers in an embossed vase, next to a bowl full o...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
17th Century Still Life Angelo Maria Rossi Still Life Oil on Canvas Fruit
By Angelo Maria Rossi
Located in Sanremo, IT
Pair of paintings, oil on canvas, measuring 54 x 44 cm unframed and 65 x 55 cm with a coeval frame, depicting still lifes with asparagus, pomegranates, quinces, figs and medlars by t...
Category
Italian School 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old man with a long beard and cap - After Rembrandt, copy
By Ferdinand Bol
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 x 2 1/4 inches (76 x 57 mm), margins. In very good condition with some minor losses at the extreme lower right corner. Pencil inscriptions on the ver...
Category
Flemish School 17th Century Art
Materials
Laid Paper
Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Pumpkins, XVIIth - XVIIIth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Lombard school of the late 17th-early 18th century. The rich composition offers a large bouquet of colorful flowers in an embossed vase, next to two large pumpkins and mixed fruit (grapes and peaches...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
River Landscape with Shepherds and Architecture, a painting by Jan van Bunnik
By Jan van Bunnik
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting has been the subject of a study by the art historian Fabrizio Dassie (available on request), confirming its inclusion in Jan van Bunnik’s corpus.
In this painting, Ja...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Copper
Besler Autumn Snowflake and Meadow Saffron Flowers: 17th C. Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Leucoium bulbosum autumnale tenufolium (Autumn Snowflake); Colchicum vulgare Polyanthos; Colchicum biflorum; Colchicum vulgare album; C...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of Nicholas Poyntz
Located in London, GB
Remigius Van Leemput
Portrait of Nicholas Poyntz
1607-1675
Oil on oak panel, unsigned
Image size: 13 x 10 1/4 inches (33 x 26 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Provenance
The Dalva Brot...
Category
Flemish School 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Singers
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
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Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Roman Ruins with Figures - Oil On Canvas by Giovanni Ghisolfi
By Giovanni Ghisolfi
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Ruins with Figures is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Giovanni Ghisolfi in the second half of the XVII century.
Oil painting on canvas.
Golden wood frame i...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
By Willem Wissing
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Willem Wissing
Dutch, (1656-1687)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 35 inches x...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Located in Greven, DE
Jan van der Heyden (1637 Gorinchem - 1712 Amsterdam), attributed.
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Westerkerk and Keizersgracht in Amsterdam
Backside: later drawn backside with village church of the 18th century
Chalk and pen on paper
23,5 x 18,5 cm
Preliminary drawing for a painting from the creative period c. 1667 - 1670. This painting has been published a few years ago by Peter C. Sutton in the catalogue raisonné of the artist.
Van der Heyden was initially a pupil of a glass painter, but later turned exclusively to architectural painting and went to Amsterdam, where he painted views of churches, castles, palaces, public squares, streets, canals, etc., most of which are richly decorated with staffage. In addition, van der Heyden was also active as an inventor, for example, he developed a street lighting system for Amsterdam by means of oil street lamps, which was in operation from 1669 to 1840. After a stay in London, he painted the London fire of 1666, which he either witnessed himself or had seen the consequences of. Certainly influenced by this, he did much to further the technical and organisational development of the fire brigade from 1669 onwards. His greatest invention was probably the fire hose, which enabled significant improvements in fire-fighting technology and tactics. He also improved the hand-operated fire engines of the time by making them smaller, more mobile and more powerful, and he developed the series connection of several pumps to increase the pressure in order to achieve a greater range for the water jet. In 1690, together with his son, he was the author and illustrator of the Brandspuiten-boek, the first manual for fire fighting.
Johann Lingelbach, Adriaen van de Velde and Eglon van der Neer...
Category
Dutch School 17th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$1,803 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School, (circa 1600)
Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Oil on panel, oval
Image size: 29¼ x 23⅞ inches
Painted wooden frame
Provenance:
176, Collection of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick.
The Trustees of the Lord Brooks’ Settlement, (removed from Warwick Castle).
Sotheby’s, London, 22nd March 1968, lot 81.
Painted onto wooden panel, this portrait shows a dark haired gentleman in profile sporting an open white shirt. On top of this garments is a richly detailed black cloak, decorated with gold thread and lined with a sumptuous crimson lining. With the red silk inside it’s all very expensive and would fall under sumptuary laws – so this is a nobleman of high degree.
It’s melancholic air conforms to the contemporary popularity of this very human condition, evident in fashionable poetry and music of the period. In comparison to our own modern prejudices, melancholy was associated with creativity in this period.
This portrait appeared in the earliest described list of pictures of Warwick castle dating to 1762. Compiled by collector and antiquary Sir William Musgrave ‘taken from the information of Lord & Lady Warwick’ (Add. MSS, 5726 fol. 3) is described;
‘8. Earl of Essex – an original by Zuccharo – seen in profile with black hair. Holding a black robe across his breast with his right hand.’
As tempting as it is to imagine that this is a portrait of Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl Essex, we might take this with a pinch of salt. Its identification with this romantic and fatal Elizabethan might well have been an attempt to add romance to Warwick Castle’s walls. It doesn’t correspond all that well with Essex’s portraits around 1600 after his return from Cadiz. Notably, this picture was presumably hung not too far away from the castle’s two portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. The first, and undoubtedly the best, being the exquisite coronation portrait that was sold by Lord Brooke in the late 1970s and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. The second, described as being ‘a copy from the original at Ld Hydes’, has yet to resurface.
The portrait eventually ended up being hung in the State Bedroom of Warwick Castle.
Archival documents present one other interesting candidate. The Greville family’s earliest inventory of paintings, made in 1630 at their home Brooke House in Holborn, London, describes five portraits of identified figures. All five belonged to the courtier, politician and poet Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628), 1st Baron Brooke, and were hung in the ‘Gallerie’ of Brooke House behind yellow curtains. One of them was described as being of ‘Lord of Pembrooke’, which is likely to have been William Herbert (1580-1630), 3rd Earl of Pembroke. William was the eldest son of Greville’s best friend’s sister Mary Sidney, and was brought up in the particularly literary and poetically orientated household which his mother had supported. Notably, the 3rd Earl was one of the figures that Shakespeare’s first folio was dedicated to in 1623.
The melancholic air to the portrait corresponds to William’s own pretensions as a learned and poetic figure. The richness of the robe in the painting, sporting golden thread and a spotted black fabric, is indicative of wealth beyond that of a simple poet or actor. The portrait’s dating to around the year 1600 might have coincided with William’s father death and his own rise to the Pembroke Earldom. This period of his life too was imbued with personal sadness, as an illicit affair with a Mary Fitton had resulted in a pregnancy and eventual banishment by Elizabeth I to Wilton after a short spell in Fleet Prison. His illegitimate son died shortly after being born. Despite being a close follower of the Earl of Essex, William had side-stepped supporting Devereux in the fatal uprising against the Queen and eventually regained favour at the court of the next monarch James I.
His linen shirt is edged with a delicate border of lace and his black cloak is lined on the inside with sumptuous scarlet and richly decorated on the outside with gold braid and a pattern of embroidered black spots.
Despite the richness of his clothes, William Herbert has been presented in a dishevelled state of semi-undress, his shirt unlaced far down his chest with the ties lying limply over his hand, indicating that he is in a state of distracted detachment. It has been suggested that the fashion for melancholy was rooted in an increase in self-consciousness and introspective reflection during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
In contemporary literature melancholy was said to be caused by a plenitude of the melancholy humor, one of the four vital humors, which were thought to regulate the functions of the body. An abundance of the melancholia humor was associated with a heightened creativity and intellectual ability and hence melancholy was linked to the notion of genius, as reflected in the work of the Oxford scholar Robert Burton, who in his work ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’, described the Malcontent as ‘of all others [the]… most witty, [who] causeth many times divine ravishment, and a kind of enthusiamus… which stirreth them up to be excellent Philosophers, Poets and Prophets.’ (R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1621 in R. Strong, ‘Elizabethan Malady: Melancholy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraits’, Apollo, LXXIX, 1964).
Melancholy was viewed as a highly fashionable affliction under Elizabeth I, and her successor James I, and a dejected demeanour was adopted by wealthy young men, often presenting themselves as scholars or despondent lovers, as reflected in the portraiture and literature from this period. Although the sitter in this portrait is, as yet, unidentified, it seems probable that he was a nobleman with literary or artistic ambitions, following in the same vain as such famous figures as the aristocratic poet and dramatist, Edward de Vere...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
FINE 17th CENTURY ITALIAN OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING - FIGURES GARDENING LANDSCAPE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Working Landscape"
Italian School, 17th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 42.5cm x 60cm
framed: 50.5cm x 68cm
Fine quality Italian Old Master oil painting on can...
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Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,106 Sale Price
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Hand-decorated Tea Bowl (Gold Luster, Rich, Floral, Fine China)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman
Hand-decorated Tea Bowl / Yunomi (Gold Luster, Rich, Floral, Fine China, Precious)
Porcelain, 24K German Gold Luster, Glaze, Underglaze, China Paints, Vintage Transfe...
Category
Rococo 17th Century Art
Materials
Luster, Paint, Glaze, Porcelain
17th Century by Il Padovanino Pair of putti Oil on canvas
By Il Padovanino
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Alessandro Leone Varotari, detto il Padovanino (Padua, Italy, 1588 - Venice, Italy, 1649)
Title: Pair of putti
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 83 × 66 cm – with frame...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$21,171 Sale Price
20% Off
Nova Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino - illustrated Book - 1618
Located in Roma, IT
Complete title: Nova Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino Cavalier de SS. Maurition & Lazzaro Nella quale si descrivono diverse imagini di Virtu, Vitij, Affetti, Passioni humane, Arti,...
Category
Modern 17th Century Art
Materials
Paper
17th Century by Juan Alfonso Abril Head of St Paul Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Juan Alfonso Abril (active in the 17th century in Valladolid, Spain)
Title: Head of Saint Paul
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 48.5 x 62 ...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nicolas de Largillière - Portrait of a Lady, Paris, circa 1695
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas de Largillière (Paris, 1656-1746)
Portrait of a lady, circa 1695
Oil on canvas (relined): 76 x 61 cm
Framed: h. 97 cm, l. 82 cm
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist by Dominique Brême, director of museum of Sceaux and artist specialist.
Our work presents a majestic French aristocrat against the backdrop of a twilight landscape.
The face seen from the front, the body turned three-quarters, the young woman is portrayed half-length, revealing her slim belted waist.
The elongated face with rosy cheeks, almond-shaped eyes, straight nose and strong chin, solemn expression, the young woman sketches...
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Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Trepanning Surgeon, Early 17th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel, inscribed top left ‘AETATIS SUAE 32’
Image size: 27 x 35 inches (68.5 x 89 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
This is a portrait of a medical figure from the ea...
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17th Century Art
Materials
Oak, Oil
Le Crucifiement (The Crucifixion) - Etching by Jacques Callot - 1614/24
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Jacques Callot in 1619-24.
Second state on two.
Fair condition, with top corners missing.
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Travellers by a Cottage
. Circle of Isaac van Ostade. Framed Oil painting
Located in St. Albans, GB
Circle of Isack van Ostade
Dutch, 1621 - 1649
Picture Size: 28 x 23"
Outside Size: 34 x 29"
Original carved frame
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
Isack van Ostade, the youngest of the eight ...
Category
Dutch School 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Spectacle Seller
By Adriaen Jansz van Ostade
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 4 x 3 3/8 inches (102 x 86 mm), 1/4 inch margins. Signed in the plate, lower left corner. The 3rd state (of 6), after the rounding of the pl...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
17th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Antique Religious Painting, 1650
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique 17th-century Flemish painting. Oil on panel artwork depicting the biblical scene of the casting of lots for Christ's tunic. The soldiers, after crucifying Jesus, took his clo...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Still Life with Fruits", 17th Century Oil on Canvas by Flemish School
Located in Madrid, ES
FLEMISH SCHOOL
17th Century
STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS
unsigned
oil on canvas
17-3/4 x 21-3/4 inches (45 x 55 cm.)
framed: 22 x 27 inches (56 x 68 cm.)
PR...
Category
Flemish School 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th C Dutch Old Master Ink
Wash Painting Biblical Figures Rembrandt Pupil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure being Comforted (Job?)
circle of Willem Drost (Dutch 1633-1659) *See notes below
ink and wash drawing on paper (Arms of Amsterdam watermarked)
Dutc...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$4,326 Sale Price
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Head of a Putto in Roman Baroque Marble 17th century Italian School
Located in Pistoia, IT
Marble head in the round depicting a putto, Roman Baroque, 17th century.
In the Baroque, the putti became predominant decorative elements, depicted as nude and winged child figure...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Marble
Head of a Laughing Peasant
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on white laid paper, 1 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches (41 x 38 mm), thread margins. In excellent condition with a light pencil inscription on the verso.
[Hollstein 6]
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Self Portrait, Oil on Oak Panel, English School, Handmade Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on oak panel
Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (23 x 18.5 cm)
Period style hand made frame
This is a self-portrait is most likely by a 17th century English...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Oak, Oil
Dutch 17th Century Oil Painting - The Card Game by Ter Borch
By Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Located in London, GB
Gerard ter Borch
The Cards Game
Oil on canvas
14 x 15.5 inches unframed
19 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches framed
Gerard ter Borch (Dutch; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
17th Century By Niccolo
Cassana Self-portrait Oil On Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Niccolò Cassana (Venice, Italy, 1659 - London, UK, 1713)
Title: Self-portrait
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 64 x 54 cm - with frame 89 x 78 cm
Antique shaped wooden cassetta frame...
Category
Italian School 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$8,188 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Goldfinch, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. In the beautiful composition you can see, resting on an inlaid wooden sideboard, a basket full of cherries, some of which are scattered on the top, and a plat...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Genesis 7 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis 7 - Old Testament Story is an original Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco.
About The Old Testament Story, 1607ca.
Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm
The ...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Group of seven (7) prints from Engravings of Plants + 1 Redouté
Located in Middletown, NY
Each a lithograph with hand coloring on watermarked Arches wove paper with a deckle edge. Each 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 (412 x 312 mm); sheet 26 x 19 3/4 inches (661 x 502 mm), each with full...
Category
French School 17th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Pastoral Scene with Shepherds at Dusk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
Italian School, 17th century
circle of Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1873)
(ascribed to this artist on a frame plaque)
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 20.5 x 25.5 inches
Canva...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,231 Sale Price
20% Off
Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Possibly Antonio Amici Moretti, Rome, 1690
Roy Clyde Gardner, Union, Mississippi, 1970s until 2004; by whom given to:
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2004-2010
Lit...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cartusia Bruxellensis Monastery in Brussels: A 17th C. Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Cartusia Bruxellensis" by Lucas Vorsterman, the Younger, after a drawing by Jacob van Werden or Jacques van Weerden, published in 1659 in Antonius Sanderus' book 'Chorographia sacra Brabantiae sive celebrium aliquot in ea provincia ecclesiarum et coenobiorum descriptio . . . Brussel' (A sacred chorography of Brabant, or a description of several famous churches and convents in that province). It also appeared in other publications by Sanderus. In the 17th century, Brussels was within the Duchy of Brabant.
This engraving depicts a bird's-eye view of the Scheut Carthusian Monastery in Brussels. Scheut is a district of Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. The monastery housed monks, who took a vow of silence, in 20 rooms. There is a central courtyard with trees and shrubs. Monks are depicted strolling along its pathways. The cells for the friars are in the middle the cloister. There are people along the streets in the foreground and to the right of the large, imposing monastery. Some are on horseback, others are walking. In the lower right, what appears to be a dog pulls a small cart containing barrels, possibly of beer or wine. Districts and neighborhoods are labelled in the background, including Scheut, Anderlecht and Ransfort. A very ornate cartouche in the lower left contains Latin and the artist's attribution. Another decorative cartouche in the upper central area contains the title.
This beautifully hand-colored and detailed engraving is printed on laid, chain-linked paper with wide, full margins. The sheet measures 17.25" high and 21.25" wide. It has Latin text on the verso. It has a central vertical fold, as issued, which is reinforced on the verso. Two small spots in the lower margin may actually represent drops of watercolor paint used to color the engraving. It is otherwise in very good condition.
Antonius Sanderus (1586-1664) was a Flemish Catholic cleric and historian. He was born "Antoon Sanders", but Latinized his name like many writers and scholars of his time. He was the author of several books, including 'Chorographia Sacra Brabantiae', which was illustrated with this engraving.
Lucas Vorsterman the Younger (1624-between 1666 & 1676) was a Flemish Baroque engraver and draughtsman. He produced engravings after the work of contemporary painters and for books by Antwerp publishers.
Jacob van Werden or Jacques van Weerden (active 1643-1669), was a Flemish draughtsman, cartographer, military engineer and archer who was active in the Habsburg Netherlands. His drawings were used as designs for prints executed by various printmakers. He worked on maps, topographical views, historical scenes, portraits and book illustrations. He had a career as a military engineer and a member of the guard of the Spanish King. He advised on various military engineering projects and was an engineer of the Spanish army...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Dipinto fiammingo figurativo paesaggio bamboccianti del XVII secolo
By Jacob Van Huchtenberg
Located in Florence, IT
Il Mercato a Piazza del Popolo è opera del pittore olandese Jacob van Huchtenburgh, nato a Haarlem e presente, nel corso dei primi anni Sessanta del Seicento, a Roma, a stretto conta...
Category
Other Art Style 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Colored Engraving
Collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational Histor...
Category
French School 17th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
17th Century by Cristoforo Serra Portrait of a Shepherd Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cristoforo Serra (Cesena, Italy, 1600 - 1689)
Title: Portrait of a Shepherd
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 92 x 75 cm - with frame 106.5 x 94.5 cm
Antique gilt-wood...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Green Landscape with Dreamlike Nude Figure at waters edge
Before Bathing
By Georg Eduard Otto Saal
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
A German painter from Baden, he was a student of J W Schirmer in Dusseldorf and Baden Court.
Oil on Panel
Signed and Dated 1865
Provenance: Private Collection, Austria
Category
Impressionist 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Head of Donkey - Etching after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on paper, within a ruled border.
A finely executed etching after Nicolaes Berchem depicting the head of a donkey in profile, rendered with remarkable sensitivity to texture ...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait of a Young Man
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 13 x 16 1/2 inches (33 x 42 cm)
Contemporary style frame (Image below)
Provenance
Private European Collection
Darnley Fine Art offers this boldly brushed ...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish school. Secretary of Pope Pius V, abbot of Husillos, bishop of Córdoba.
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of Francisco de Reynoso y Baeza.
Secretary of Pope Pius V, abbot of Husillos and bishop of Córdoba. Francisci de Reynoso.
Early 17th century.
Small-format portrait from the late Renaissance period.
Spanish school.
Size: Cm 19 x Cm 13.5
Oil on wooden panel.
On the back the fine tablet is strengthened (already in ancient times) by a sheet of parchment.
About 1600-1610.
As often in Mannerist / Late Renaissance portraits, the image of the character is accompanied by the writing that runs at the top, adding a celebratory, historicising touch to the effigy. Let's bring back the sentence here:
DON FRANCISCO DE REINOSO. CAMARERO SECRETO IESCALCO PIO QUINTO OBISCOPO CORDOBA. 68 (? O 7?)
(1534, Autillo de Campos, Spain - 1601, Córdoba)
Francisco de Reynoso was a Spanish cleric, chief chamberlain, and secretary to Pope Pius V, abbot of Husillos, and bishop of Córdoba.
He was the fourth of eleven children. His father was the seventh Lord of Autillo de Campos, and his mother was Juana de Baeza y de las Casas, daughter of Manuel de Baeza, a lawyer of the Royal Council and at the Court of Valladolid.
Francisco de Reynoso was deeply devoted to the Virgin Mary and showed a strong inclination toward religion and piety from an early age.
He studied Latin, arts, and theology at the University of Salamanca.
In 1562, he traveled to Rome with his brothers Pedro and Luis.
In January 1566, following the death of Pope Pius IV, Cardinal Antonio Michele Ghislieri was elected pope, becoming Pius V. From this period until Ghislieri's death in 1572, Francisco de Reynoso served as his chief chamberlain and secretary.
After Pope Pius V died, Francisco de Reynoso returned to Spain and lived for several years in the city of Palencia, where his brother Manuel was a canon.
He supported the Society of Jesus when it was established in Palencia, providing alms to the school's clergy and funding chairs of Letters and Theology at his own expense, as well as donating a significant number of books.
During the brief outbreak of the Black Plague...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Parchment Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,519 Sale Price
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The Little Trellis - Etching by Jacques Callot - Mid-17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper printed after Jacques Callot in the mid-17th Century.
Image dimension: 8.1x16.4 cm.; Matted dimension: 40x60 cm.
Signed in plate lower right: Callot in et fe cu...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Important 17
Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame .
Giovanni Battista Viola...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady . Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger. ( Paris, 1612-1689), attrib
By Louis Elle (Ferdinand)
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a lady .
Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger. ( Paris, 1612-1689), attributed.
Circa 1680.
Oil on canvas, resting on cardboard.
In 19th-century giltwood frame.
A female...
Category
French School 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$2,907 Sale Price
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Fine 17th Century Flemish Baroque Oil Painting Roman Charity Large Wood Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roman Charity
Flemish Baroque period, first half 17th century
circle of Peter Paul Rubens
oil on wood panel, framed
framed: 24.5 x 30 inches
panel: 20 x 26 inches
Provenance: Private...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$24,646 Sale Price
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Eagle: A 16th/17th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Aldrovandi
Located in Alamo, CA
This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored engraving of an eagle is plate K2 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published between 1599 an...
Category
Naturalistic 17th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
Cainus fratri necem molitur (Cain kills his brother), Plate I Battles from Old T
Located in Middletown, NY
Rome: Nicolas van Aelst, 1613.
Engraving on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark, 8 x 11 1/4 inches (203 x 282 mm), thread margins. Scattered expert repairs including minor pu...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
17th Century by Giovan Battista Discepoli Coronation of Thorns Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovan Battista Discepoli, also called the "Zoppo from Lugano" [Castagnola (Lugano), Switzerland, 1590 - Lugano, Switzerland, 1654]
Title: Coronation of Thorns
Medium: Oil on panel
D...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Salvator Rosa. Original etching: Warrior with Mace and Shield. 17th century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Salvator Rosa (Naples, July 20, 1615 - Rome, March 15, 1673)
Warrior with Mace and Shield
Etching and engraving, ca. 1650-1652
Second state (final)
Plate: 14 × 9.5 cm - Sheet: approx...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (19 x 23.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
An enigmatic portrait of a young woman after Sir Peter Lely's drawing, currently shown in the B...
Category
Victorian 17th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Portrait of Henrico van der Borcht,
original W. Hollar engraving after Holbei
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this print, Wenceslaus Hollar presents a portrait of D. Henrico van der Borcht, copying a painting or drawing by Hans Holbein. Copying works of famous masters was a common task of...
Category
Old Masters 17th Century Art
Materials
Engraving
17th Century Old Head Flemish School Eyes Caravagism Oil on Canvas Yellow White
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel depicting a strong and distinctive old man's head with dimensions of 36 x 28 cm without frame and 68 x 60 with frame coeval Flemish school of the second half of...
Category
Flemish School 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$4,272 Sale Price
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Old Master Painting, Flemish Baroque Grisaille, Cornelis Schut, Mary with Child
Located in Greven, DE
Cornelis Schut, atrributed to
(1597 - Antwerp - 1655)
Mary with Child, St. Elisabeth and John the Baptist en grisaille
Oil on wood, 33,5 x 26,5 cm
Co...
Category
Baroque 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17
century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subje...
Category
Academic 17th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"Italianizing landscape"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704) – "Italianizing Landscape"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions (Framed): 102 x 122 cm
Dimensions (Flat): 74 x 106 cm
Signature: Lower right corner
Fram...
Category
Realist 17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil





