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Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog Beauty Franceso Vinea
By Francesco Vinea
Located in Portland, OR
housed in the original gilded gesso frame. Vinea's highest selling artwork of a beautiful young woman in
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1870s Italian School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oil, Panel

Manner Titian, Oil on Canvas Sleeping Cupid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reverse reads "Hon. Acad. of Arts - L. No. Lynde
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17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the
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Late 18th Century English School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Paper, Chalk, Glass

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Le Jockey" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
27.5 in., width 21.5 in. Materials: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Literature: Delteil 279
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood, Paper

Close of Day - British 1900 Victorian art pine trees landscape oil painting
By Daniel Sherrin
Located in Hagley, England
24 inches unframed and in good condition. Frame. Housed in a fine 19th century giltwood and gesso
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Early 1900s Realist Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oil

Still Life with Roses and Fruit, 17 Century Style Oil on Canvas, dated 1896
Located in TEYJAT, FR
style gilded gesso frame This richly composed still life, signed G. Evason and dated 1896, is a fine
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Late 19th Century British Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Antique Dutch School Floral Still Life Oil Painting Framed Late 18th Century
Located in London, GB
gilt gesso frame, late 18th century in date. This splendid painting is rectangular in shape and
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1790s Dutch Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

French Louis XV-Style Belle Époque Giltwood Gesso Figural Cherub Mirror Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gesso Carved Figural Mirror Frame. The beautifully carved and cast crest crowned by a female putto
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Silver Leaf

Pair of Georgian Style Split Plate Mirrors manner of John Belchier
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
elaborately carved gilt gesso frame, exemplifying the refined yet bold ornamentation characteristic of the
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Early 20th Century Italian George I Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mercury Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood

Francois-Alfred Delobbe Oil on Canvas "The Little Neighbour", French, 1835-1920
By François-Alfred Delobbe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ornate gilt-wood and gesso frame, circa 1870. Measures: Canvas height: 26 inches (66 cm). Canvas
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Antique German Genre Oil Painting Portrait Cavalier Drinking Wine
By Albert Friedrich Schroder
Located in Portland, OR
original giltwood gesso frame. Condition is excellent and this handsome painting is ready to hang on
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Late 19th Century Dutch School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "L Artisan Moderne" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions: 25.4" height, 36" width Materials: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Signed: Artist's
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris 1910
Located in Portland, OR
left "M. J. Cabellero Paris 1910", the painting is housed in the original gilded gesso frame, both the
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1910s Naturalistic Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century Gilt and Gesso Wood Frame Wall Mirror with Foliate Design b
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century gilt & gesso wood frame wall mirror with foliate design. Item features ornate gold
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19th Century Hollywood Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Wood

Antique French School Marine Ship Fishing Boats Oil Canvas Painting Dieppe 1851
Located in Portland, OR
cleaned. Housed in the original gilded gesso frame, this very attractive painting is ready to hang on your
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1850s French School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Animal scene Duck hunting with dogs 18th century Swedish Master by Philip Korn
Located in Stockholm, SE
(roughly 19.3 x 25.2 in) and nice golden gesso frame ca 65.5 x 81.5 cm (roughly 25.8 x 32.1 in). Very Good
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18th Century Realist Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood, Oil

English 18th century portrait of a lady, Circle of Thomas Murray (1663-1735)
Located in Bath, Somerset
canvas, in a period giltwood and gesso frame. Provenance: According to a label on the reverse, J A
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Attributed to Charles Edward Hallé "Mother and Child" Oil on Canvas
By Charles Edward Hallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
gesso frame. (Relined). Signed (l/r): C.E. Hallé, circa 1870. Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914
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19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Gesso Carved Oval Mirror Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine and large French 19th century Louis XVI style giltwood and gesso carved oval mirror frame
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

19th Century Gold Gilt and Gesso Wood Frame Wall Mirror with Foliate Design ‘a’
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century gold gilt and gesso wood frame wall mirror with foliate design. Item features ornate
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19th Century Hollywood Regency Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Wood

A Fine and Charming 19th Century Victorian Oil on Canvas "Mother and Child"
Located in LA, CA
gesso frame. (Relined). Signed (l/r): C.E. Hallé, Circa 1870-1880 Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846
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Late 19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oil

19th Century American Oval Gilt Gesso Mirror Frame with Eagle Crest
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Oval gilt gesso mirror frame with eagle crest flanked by cornucopia. American, New York, circa
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Wood, Giltwood

19thC Gilt Gesso Carved Wood Mirror
Located in Altrincham, GB
19th-century moulded gilt gesso plaster and carved wood framed mirror with original glass, the
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Mid-19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Large Oval Gesso Mirror Decorated with Fruit
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large Oval Gesso Mirror Decorated with Fruit This Mirror has an 3.5” wide oval frame, this is
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Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso

"An Allegory of Love" 19th C. Oil on Canvas After Titian - Tiziano Vecellio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
original work by Titian - Tiziano Vecellio (Italian 1488-1576), within an ornate gilt-wood and gesso frame
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1760
By Jean Baptist Le Prince
Located in Kinderhook, NY
. Work measures 8.75" by 6.75" and is conservation mounted and French matted in a neoclassical gilt-gesso
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Mid-18th Century European Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Paper

A Swedish Grotto-Style Mirror with a Carved Wood and Gesso Gilt Frame
Located in New York, NY
A Swedish Grotto-style mirror with a carved wood and gesso gilt frame, topped with an oversized
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1880s Swedish Baroque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

French 18th Century Oil on Canvas Mother and Twin Babies Fecundity after Lemoyne
By François Lemoyne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
and gesso frame. Spuriously inscribed: Boucher (l/r), circa 1800. In 1729 François Lemoyne was
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Early 1800s French Louis XV Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

A Fine George I Gilt Gesso Girandole Wall Mirror
Located in Reepham, GB
A fine early 18th century Gilt Gesso wall mirror, the frame with shells at the apex and apron
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Early 18th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso

Baron Rothschild Group Portrait Oil Painting Circa 1890
Located in New York, US
elegant garden. Unsigned. Stretcher measures 24.5 by 30 inches. Period giltwood and gesso frame measures
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Late 19th Century German Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas

Alphonse Mucha "La Dame aux Camelias" Lithograph
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
" width. Materials: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Signed: Mucha Literature: A similar lithograph
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Paper

Alphonse Mucha "Lorenzaccio" Lithograph
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Signed: Mucha Literature: Pictured in Alphonse Mucha: The Complete
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Paper

Very Important Late 19th Century Rococo Style Giltwood and Gesso Mirror
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Very Important Late 19th Century Rococo Style Giltwood and Gesso Mirror The entire frame
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

A Good Pair of Late 19th Century Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirrors
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Good Pair of Late 19th Century Carved Giltwood and Gesso Mirrors The rectangular frames with
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Carved Giltwood Gesso Trumeau Cherub Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and palatial French 19th century Louis XV style carved giltwood and gesso figural
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Gesso, Giltwood

19th Century Italian Painting by Leopoldina Zanetti Borzino (Italian 1826-1902)
Located in Chicago, IL
original hand-carved giltwood and gesso frame. There are some nicks and scratches on the frame, as well as
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Mid-19th Century Italian Other Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Canvas

Portrait of a Gentleman in Doublet Ruff c.1595; Elizabethan oil on copper
Located in London, GB
carved and gesso frame. Hieronimo Custodis, originally from Antwerp, was among the numerous Flemish
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16th Century Old Masters Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Copper

Susannah (Without the Elders) /// Old Masters British Nude Bath Biblical Story
By Frederick Goodall R.A.
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
in its original period Louis XV style gilt gesso frame Framed size: 17.25" x 13.25" Canvas size
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1880s Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso

Very Rare Carved Gilt Gesso Dressing Mirror, circa 1710-1720
Located in Lymington, GB
. Moore is especially renowned for gilt-gesso furniture: tables; looking glass frames; and candle stands
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Early 18th Century English Queen Anne Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Giltwood

Antique Oil on Canvas Orientalist Painting Moorish Spain Gate of The Sun Toledo
Located in Portland, OR
housed in the original ornate gilded gesso frame, condition of the frame and painting is excellent and
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1870s Realist Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stunning Newcomb Macklin Spanish Baroque Frame
Located in North Clarendon, VT
. Thanhardt-Burger sold frames based on Newcomb-Macklin's designs until 2013, when the company's frame-making
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Carrol Beckwirth Framed Oil on Canvas
Located in Sarasota, FL
girl holding a puppy, set in the original, wonderfully carved, gilt rococo frame. Signed in the lower
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19th Century Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas

Large Oil on Canvas "Beggar Boys Playing Dice" After Bartolomé Esteban Murrillo
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ornate gildwood and gesso frame bearing a label from the faming company Bigelow & Jordan. The original
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Late 19th Century German Baroque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

French school Landscape riverside Signed oil on canvas with frame
Located in Zofingen, AG
Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐47,5x31.5 cm / 18.5x12.4 inch With frame
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1890s Barbizon School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Hand Carved, 17th Century Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A striking, richly hand carved, gessoed, and gold gilded Italian roundel frame. The whole
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17th Century Italian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Large Antique Ecclesiastical Style Framed Painted Canvas
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large antique ecclesiastical style painted canvas housed in a gilt gesso timber frame
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Antique 19th C Victorian Gold Giltwood Gesso Foliate Design Wall Mirror (A)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
ornate gold gilt gesso foliate, wooden frame, central mirror, very nice antique item. Circa 19th Century
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19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Wood

Austrian 19th Century Rococo Style Giltwood Carved and Gesso Overmantel Mirror
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Austrian 19th century Rococo style giltwood carved and Gesso overmantel mirror frame with
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19th Century Austrian Rococo Revival Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Mirror, Giltwood

Cow and Chickens in Stable /// Thomas Sidney Cooper British Farm Animal Painting
By Thomas Sidney Cooper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
antique gold Louis XV style gesso frame Framed size: 13" x 15.07" Panel size: 9" x 11 Condition: Minor
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1870s Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board, Wood

French Rococo Revival Oak and Gilt Gesso Wall Mirror Circa 1880 (c19th Louis XV)
Located in Leeds, GB
applied gilt gesso ornament. The serpentine frame is crisply shaped, with flowing Rococo curves and
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Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oak

Antique French School Oil Painting Canvas Cliffs at Etretat Normandy France 1910
Located in Portland, OR
in the original sponge decorated gesso frame, also created by the artist. Condition is excellent
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1910s French School Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Oil Painting of Flowers in Vase in Montparnasse Frame
Located in Austin, TX
frame. The Montparnasse frame takes its name from the Parisian district where it was born, at the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint, Gesso

Victorian Framed Mirror with Velvet Insert
Located in Malibu, CA
decorates the frame, which is in very good condition for its age.
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Mid-19th Century American Early Victorian Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Velvet, Giltwood, Gesso

18th Century Icon, Wax Portrait Giltwood Frame
Located in London, by appointment only
Rare 18th century giltwood framed carved and polychrome wax silver and gold decorated figure of
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18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Madonna Della Candeletta by Carlo Crivelli Lithograph Carved polychromed Frame
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
elaborately carved and polychromed frame that accentuates its Renaissance-inspired design. The lithograph
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1920s Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Walnut

17th Century Portrait in Period Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
period wood, gesso and gilt hand carved frame is of the period.
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Early 17th Century Baroque Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Oil, Board

Early 20th Century Hand Formed Batwing Framed Mirror
Located in Malibu, CA
also called "Piecrust" The gesso is hand formed over the hardwood frame. Clean solid sturdy with
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Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Gesso Frames

Materials

Gesso, Hardwood

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Antique Gesso Frames For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of antique gesso frames available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of gesso, wood and glass, all antique gesso frames available were constructed with great care. Antique gesso frames have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique gesso frames are generally popular furniture pieces, but Victorian, Rococo and Louis XV styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made antique gesso frames over the years, but those made by John James Audubon, Edgar Degas and James Edwin Meadows are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Antique Gesso Frames?

Prices for antique gesso frames start at $170 and top out at $30,965 with the average selling for $1,899.
Questions About Antique Gesso Frames
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 28, 2021
    Gesso is the Italian word for “chalk.” It has been used for the preparation of gilding frames. You can find a variety of gesso picture frames on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    Antique picture frames can be very valuable, particularly if they are older and have maintained their high quality. Some designs are considered classically attractive and are more valuable even if they are not as old.
    1stDibs ExpertAugust 24, 2021
    Yes, antique picture frames are considered valuable. They are regarded as high-value collectibles and can often be seen in exhibits without canvases, as art pieces on their own. Made of wood traditionally, antique picture frames remain very popular owing to their ability to be shaped in varied profiles. You can choose from a wide variety of antique picture frames, including designs in antique and vintage, new and contemporary, and 21st century pre-owned styles on 1stDibs.