Pair of English Oil Paintings on Canvas, Sisters

This magnificent painting dates to the 19th century after the original by Francois Boucher. François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and et...

A 19th century French oil painting on canvas depicting classical figures in landscape, with a standing gentleman presenting bouquet of flowers to a sitting lady. Signed: Jules Garson...

A 19th century continental mythological oil painting on canvas of Aphrodite and Adonis, after the 16th century painting by Titian (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) ...

A very fine 19th century German KPM hand painted porcelain plaque depicting two young ladies reading a letter within a giltwood frame. After the original painting by Franz Von Deffre...

Antonio Bertoli (active between 1829 - 1842) Portraits of women (2) Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 31 cm With frame 52 x 42.5 cm Signed below A. Bertoli The two portraits examined here are by the hand of the artist Antonio Bertoli, a painter active in Florence between 1829 - 1842. He trained at the Florentine Academy, where in 1832 he obtained the prize for the nude in drawing. At the academic exhibitions of the following years he exhibited mainly portraits, including a representation of Nicolò Macchiavelli executed in 1837. An eclectic artist, he experimented with different genres: for the Villa Puccini di Scornio in Pistoia, in 1838, he was commissioned to create a history picture, The death of Francesco Ferrucci (Pistoia, Civic Museum), inspired by an episode of the novel Siege of Florence by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi. Instead, two religious paintings date back to the 1840s: Christ chasing the merchants from the Temple and a Virgin Mary, In the portraits analyzed Bertoli depicts two half-length women taken from a foreshortening and a frontal in close pose, characterized by very similar Mediterranean features. In the first painting the woman, taken from the front, looks directly at the viewer. The wavy hair is decorated with a colorful violet and is partially covered by a white veil...

Pair of French Louis XV style gilt framed oval oil paintings portraits of 18th Century ladies (18/19th century).  

Charming pair of oil paintings on wood panels depicting two young shepherdesses in a bucolic landscape. Each figure, dressed in 19th-century country fashion and wearing a straw hat, ...

Mme. Adelaide and Mme. Victoire. Oil on canvas, with antiques frames.