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Portrait of a Man Facing Left
By William Merritt Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
encouraged to paint in the modern plein air style favored by the French Impressionists. Although Chase was
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1890s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Monoprint

Les Cypres, French Post-Impressionist Landscape Painting, Signed
Located in London, GB
vineyards. He painted en plein air, returning again and again to the same locations to capture the
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Une Femme Assise by Lucien Pissarro - Etching
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
was a plein-air painter who liked to work outdoors and study the subject directly from nature. His
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1890s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Etching

Le Défilé Royal (Illustration for Voyage au Pays des Pommes) by Lucien Pissarro
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
. Continuing the tradition of the Impressionists, Lucien was a plein-air painter who liked to work outdoors and
Category

19th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Western Wilderness Interior" William Keith, California Tonalist, Forest Stream
By William Keith
Located in New York, NY
of painters to complete paintings "en plein air," or directly from nature rather than in studios. A
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Board

Keying Up - The Court Jester
By William Merritt Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
encouraged to paint in the modern plein air style favored by the French Impressionists. Although Chase was
Category

1870s American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Etching

Haystacks, Eragny by Lucien Pissarro - Landscape, Work on paper
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
plein-air painter who liked to work outdoors and study the subject directly from nature. His landscapes
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper, Ink, Color Pencil

Twilight along the River Bend
By Louis Aston Knight
Located in Sheffield, MA
and plein-air approach: "A group of new landscapes by Aston Knight, the popular painter of the
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil

The Evening of Life - Interior Portrait - British 1906 Newlyn Sch oil painting
By Walter Langley
Located in Hagley, England
June 1852 – 21 March 1922) was an English painter and founder of the Newlyn School of plein air artists
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Early 1900s Realist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil

"The Canal"
By Edward Willis Redfield
Located in Lambertville, NJ
brush strokes tightly woven and layered with a multitude of colors. These large plein-air canvases
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Afternoon Picnic" Still Life Out Doors Impressionist Oil Painting with Florals
By Martha Walter
Located in New York, NY
is evident in the saturated colors and plein-air subject matter in her early Impressionist work with
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Pommier en fleur - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Eugene Chigot
By Eugene Henri Alexandre Chigot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
stage in his career Chigot favoured ‘En plein air’ painting, a theory credited to Pierre-Henri de
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1910s Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Panel

Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) Attribution - "Triumph of Flowers and Fruits" 17th
By Abraham Brueghel
Located in Madrid, ES
Abraham Brueghel (1631 - 1690) Attribution - "Triumph of Flowers and Fruits in Plein Air" oil on
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17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paint

La Tour St Martin, par rapport au Ciel (St Martin s Tower against the Sky)
Located in London, GB
the location of his maternal family’s chateau and vineyards. He painted en plein air, returning again
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Board

Le Cerisier (The Cherry Tree)
Located in London, GB
vineyards. He painted en plein air, returning again and again to the same locations to capture the
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Barbizon School Landscape, The Poplar Trees, Late 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Cotignac, FR
the art movement called Impressionism and practiced 'plein air' painting. In contrast, the main
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Late 19th Century Barbizon School Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Java Landscapes – Rare Pair of Deluxe Folio Chromolithographs by Salm, 1865-72
Located in Langweer, NL
. Buffa & Zonen between 1865 and 1872. Executed after the plein-air paintings of Dutch artist Andreas
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1860s Dutch Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper

Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette.  Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter
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1890s Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil

Route de Montagne
Located in London, GB
of his maternal family’s chateau and vineyards. He painted en plein air, returning again and again to
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Winter Wildfowling" Frank Weston Benson, Hunting Scene, Outdoors, Marshes
By Frank Weston Benson
Located in New York, NY
plein-air paintings of his children–Eleanor, George, Elisabeth and Sylvia–capture the very essence of
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1920s Academic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper, Etching

Fruit and Porcelain
Located in Sheffield, MA
landscape painting and in the possibilities of pastels. He began to paint plein-air scenes such as "A Subtle
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil

“Portrait of a Lady in White, c. 1905-10” Impressionist Edwardian Belle Époque
Located in Yardley, PA
lighting, and the dappled effect of tree branches above her suggest a plein air influence, even if executed
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Oil Painting "Nature Morte: Fallen Doves" (1865) by Alfred Wall
Located in Shippensburg, PA
beauty of western Pennsylvania, these painters worked en plein air, capturing the region’s lush forests
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19th Century American Victorian Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Woman on a Patio
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Pastel

untitled Woman by the Windows
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Pastel

French Barbizon Pastoral Landscape Painting of Horses by Jules Dupré
By Jules Dupré
Located in Shippensburg, PA
eventually be known as the Barbizon school. He sketched plein-air studies of the countryside surrounding
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19th Century French Barbizon School Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Paint

The Banks of the Seine Near Chatelet, Parisian Cityscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
connect with nature and while painting en plein-air, he "hated to walk in any mud and even a blade of
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

American Impressionist "Self-Portrait" Painting of Monhegan Island Maine Coast
By Abraham Jacob Bogdanove
Located in Portland, OR
celebrated painters, who also painted both murals and plein-air scenes of the Monhegan Island coast
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Early 20th Century Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Etude de Ciel - Impressionist Landscape Pastel Study by Eugene Boudin
By Eugène Louis Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
staying at Le Havre. Boudin gave Monet a taste for painting en plein air, and continued to be associated
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1860s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Pastel, Canvas

Woman on a Patio
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Pastel

"Le Port de Marseille" Eugène Galien Laloue (French, 1854-1941)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
plein-air. Laloue “hated to walk in any mud and even a blade of grass bothered him.” (Noë Willer
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1910s Art Nouveau Antique Plein Air

Materials

Gouache

In bed / - Reverie -
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Berlin, DE
, where he studied under Otto Günther, who introduced him to Weimar plein-air painting. On Günther's
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Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper

Clay jug on a bench - The essence of the clay jar revealed by the sunlight -
By Hans Richard von Volkmann
Located in Berlin, DE
moment, essential to the still life, that von Volkmann exploits to demonstrate the potential of plein-air
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1890s Naturalistic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Watercolor

"Near Provincetown" Charles Webster Hawthorne, Cape Cod Impressionist Landscape
By Charles Webster Hawthorne
Located in New York, NY
School of Art - for over thirty years and made it a leading artists' colony of plein-air impressionist
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1910s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Port De Cannes French Riviera Côte d Azur Original Framed Watercolor Painting
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Delvaux completed around 80 paintings, mostly naturalistic landscapes in a plein-air impressionist vein
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Early 20th Century Romantic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Rudolf v. Rittner as Florian Geyer - Last man standing -
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Berlin, DE
studied under Otto Günther, who introduced him to Weimar plein-air painting. On Günther's recommendation
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1920s Expressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Etching

Antique German Hanau Rococo Silver Box
By Hanau
Located in New York, NY
scrollwork; bead-and-reel and imbricated leaf borders. On cover top, plein-air naughtiness with groping toper
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Early 20th Century German Rococo Revival Antique Plein Air

Materials

Silver

Saint-Malo, Brittany
By William Stanley Haseltine
Located in New York, NY
plein-air painting practiced by the Barbizon artists, and the revolutionary techniques of the French
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19th Century American Realist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Still Life with Roses and Fruit" Impressionist Oil of Canvasboard Painting
By Martha Walter
Located in New York, NY
stamp on the reverse, and it comes housed in an antiqued champagne color with a black border Plein Air
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"Still Life with Rose Bouquets" Impressionist Oil of Canvasboard Painting Framed
By Martha Walter
Located in New York, NY
plein-air beach scenes and domestic portraits. Martha Walter studied under William Merritt Chase and was
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

“Concarneau, Brittany”
By Aloysius O’Kelly
Located in Southampton, NY
of various nationalities in practising plein-air painting in order to capture the naturalism of its
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Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Board

Plein Air Danish landscape
By Heinrich Buntzen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
In period frame
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Early 19th Century Antique Plein Air

1910 Plein Air oil painting cardboard Honfleur signed Achilles Ketelle France
Located in Antwerpen, BE
Introducing a captivating piece of early 20th-century art: a 1910 plein air oil painting on
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Antique Plein Air

Materials

Acrylic

French Plein Air landscape oil painting, c. 1900 by Albert Stucorry
Located in Los Gatos, CA
Plein air oil sketch of a landscape in the Bordeaux region of France, by Albert Stucory, c. 1900
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Early 19th Century French Barbizon School Antique Plein Air

Materials

Wood, Reclaimed Wood, Paint

Plein Air Paintings from Argentina
Located in North Egremont, MA
Pair of small oil on board Argentinian scenes. One of the Parana River of Los Palmas and the other a historic building in Santa Catalina. Unframed.
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Early 20th Century Argentine Antique Plein Air

"Campfire Gypsy Plein Air" Oil on Panel 7 x 8 3/4 Plein Air
By Nicholas Haritonoff
Located in Dallas, TX
Small oil on board painted on location in Russia Haritonoff studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and became one of Russia's most renowned artists. He pai...
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Early 20th Century Academic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Panel

Vintage Early 20th Century Plein Air Impressionist Farmhouse Landscape Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage early 20th century oil on artist board impressionist landscape painting with farmhouse. Unsigned. Displayed in ornate giltwood frame, opening size 15.25" x 11.5", chips to ...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Rustic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paint

Seaside Marine Oil Canvas Painting Sorrento Italy, Jeno Karpathy, Hungarian 1924
By Jeno Karpathy
Located in BUDAPEST, HU
By Jeno Karpathy, Plein Air Painter. Signed: down right Jeno Karpathy Sorrento, 1924.   
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1920s Hungarian Other Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas

Landscape with a clay slope in the foreground
By Vilhelm Kyhn
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vilhelm Kyhn, 1819 – 1903 Painting; Plein-air, open air sketch by Vilhelm Kyhn - C. W
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1850s Naturalistic Antique Plein Air

Italian Village Scene by Frederik Sommer
By Frederik Sommer
Located in Hudson, NY
, Frederik Sommer, 1830-1867. A light and airy 'plein air' painting, executed in fine detail.
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19th Century German Antique Plein Air

Waves Breaking off the Reef Oil Painting by George Gardner Symons
By George Gardner Symons 1
Located in Portland, OR
America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and realism. Plein-air is a
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1920s American Antique Plein Air

Materials

Paint

The marble sculpture of Nessus and Dejanira in the Great Park, Dresden
By Christian Friedrich Gille
Located in London, GB
surrounding countryside en plein air with great success
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19th Century Romantic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pine Wood near Nemi
By Johann Jakob Frey
Located in London, GB
Johann Jakob Frey, 1974, no. 23 London, Colnaghi, Out into Nature, The Dawn of Plein-Air Painting in
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19th Century Romantic Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil, Paper

18th Century English Stuart-Era Ornately Framed Needlepoint Wall Hanging
Located in Farmers Branch, TX
performing en plein-air and is fitted perfectly within an ornate Rococo carved giltwood frame, circa 1720
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Early 18th Century English Elizabethan Antique Plein Air

Summer Watering
By J.R. Strickler
Located in Nashville, TN
colored flower accents. In its plein-air study, loose and vibrant brushwork, and subject matter, this is a
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post-Impressionism Landscape French School Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in roma, IT
characteristics of the en plein air painting of the end of the 19th century, with fast and material brushstrokes
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1890s Post-Impressionist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Moonrise York Harbor, Maine
By Lockwood de Forest
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
All the peace and tranquility that one could hope for... Presenting a plein air nocturne
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Early 1900s American Realist Antique Plein Air

Materials

Oil

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Antique Plein Air For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact antique plein air you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You can easily find an example made in the abstract style, while we also have 19 abstract versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for an antique plein air may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right antique plein air is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes brown, gray, black and blue. An antique plein air from Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Cindy Shaoul, Steven Guy Bilodeau, James Hartman and Ronald Tinney — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. Frequently made by artists working in paint, oil paint and fabric, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Antique Plein Air?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — an antique plein air in our inventory may begin at $235 and can go as high as $191,750, while the average can fetch as much as $2,261.
Questions About Antique Plein Air
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    A plein air frame is a simple, unembellished wooden frame, usually gold-colored. These frames are typically used to mount plein air paintings, which are painted outdoors. Because of the constraints of painting in nature, the paintings and accompanying frames tend to be small.
  • Lilac Gallery Ltd.March 18, 2021
    The 'Plein air' is a French expression that means “in the open air.” And it is a term used by artists to describe when the painting was executed outside or outdoors, in contrast to painting inside of a studio. This method became very relevant in the 19th-century when French impressionism was centered in painting outdoors, with a strong sense of the open air, capturing landscapes or cityscapes on-site, at the location where the subject depicted was painted.