Hand-Carved Paintings

This is a beautiful, elegant and striking still life oil painting of a Lobster with fruit on an overflowing laid table with silverware, basket or fruit, foliage an upturned crab and ...

Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a very fine and charming oil on canvas "Spring Beauties", depicting three young maidens picking flowers by a lake. The three young girls sitting, kneeling and laying on a grassy area of the forest, her wicker basket filled with the freshly picked flowers, the middle one wearing a bonnet and a straw-hat laying on the ground behind with butterflies flying by, within a gilt-wood and gesso carved frame. Signed (l/r): H. Zatzka. Circa: 1890-1900's, Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) was a well known and regarded Austrian fantasy artist whose most popular and valuable works depicted figures of young maidens with angels, floral and other cheerful and warm scenes, including Orientalist themes. In the past thirty years alone, the high quality and detail of his beautiful paintings has caught the attention of International collectors and art dealers alike, creating a highly sought after market and demand for his instantly recognizable body of work. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of Zazka's charming works were photographed for commercial and collectable postcards. Though no information about his works being exhibited in museums is currently available, most of Zatzka's paintings are in private collections and, in the past century, very few of them have become available on the open market. At the young age of eighteen Zatzka joined Austria's Academy of Fine Arts under the leadership of Professor Blaas. For his fine early works, in 1880 he received The Golden Fügermedal award. Zatzka, like many other artists of the era, traveled around Europe working and selling his art and, in one of his many trips to Italy, he developed a special interest in Religious themes, decorating churches with frescos as well as painting several religious scenes of Madonna's and Child, Saints, Angels and others. In 1885 Zatzka was commissioned to paint "The Naiad of Baden" a ceiling fresco at Kurhaus Baden. Most of Zatzka's income came from his work in religious art and special church commissions. Numerous leading art dealers from around the world that specialize in late 19th and early 20th century European genre paintings have come to the conclusion that the painter signing his works Bernard Zatzka, Joseph Bernard or J. Bernard is almost certainly the artist Hans Zatzka. The consensus seems quite plausible when comparing works known to have been executed by Hans Zatzka together with similar works displaying the signature; Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard or Bernard Zatzka. Lohengrin refers to the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward. It seems to bear some relation to the northern European folktale of “The Seven Swans,” but its actual origin is uncertain. It is also a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans...

Rococo oil painting signed Bruno Blätter around 1890 Oil on canvas painting. Rococo scene. Three gentlemen seated at the table, playing cards a...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

A French blue, white rose abstract painting, oil on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated in 1989. Daniel Clesse was a French painter born in 1932 Paris, Fran...

This Italian tempera painted on gilt wood gold ground panel is a Tuscan religious artwork in the style of late Renaissance - early Gothic period. The sc...

This charming oil on mahogany board depicts a portrait of a young woman in typical early 19th-century fashion surrounded by foliage while she sits on a rock tending to her shoe. Hous...

A beautiful late 19th to early 20th century devotional painting on wood depicting the Holy Mother by the French artist Xavier Sager. The serene portrait, rendered in warm tones and s...

Constructed from salvaged antique wood that has been reinforced with more recent boards, this large-scale coat of arms shield has an outward curve, reminiscent of the bend of a real ...

A blue-red French abstract painting, oil on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated circa in 1963. Daniel Clesse was a French painter born in 1932, in Paris, Fran...

Painted by the accomplished French academic artist Emile Godchaux (1860–1938), this evocative oil on canvas captures a serene mountain river scene with remarkable detail and atmosphe...

TEAK & BIRCH HAND CARVED DANISH SHIP WALL ART! BEAUTIFUL! SIGNED NGGAARD Circa 1955 Mid Century Danish Modern Expressionism Dimensions: This mid century carved wood ship art is...

These magnificent lacquered wood panels have been mounted together on a lucite panel. Each panel has its original hanging handle. The panels are hanging on antique railroad...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a gentleman belonging to the ancient chivalric order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, founded in 1572 by the House of Savoy. The protagonist ...

These elegant oval frames were custom made to hold a set of “his and hers" oil portraits; probably a wealthy Italian couple. The wood carving is well-detailed and quite sturdy. The ...

Vintage Original Lithograph Featured Mother and Child Print Signed by Alexander Dobkin, Carved and Handcrafted Wooden Gold Leaf Frame with Linen...

More information coming soon… A beautiful Dutch painting, signed “H J vd Weele” (Herman J Van Der Weele), depicting a pair of horses huddled beneath two trees with a sparse canopy o...

Winter Landscape Snow Scene Country Road Painting Oil on Canvas Framed Argnegger . Late 19th-early 20th century winter landscape / snow scene, by...

Orientalist Painting Wall Art Arab Market Scene Dutch G. Huijsser Antique Frame. Very nice oil on cardboard by Gerard Huijsser, Dutch painter, depicting a gathering of people in a or...

Oil painting on wooden canvas, accompanied by a carved and gilded wooden frame, decorated with geometric and floral motifs. In the center, the scene depicts a battle, with two main c...

Vintage track and field sign from the early 1970s. Hand painted red sign with yellow lettering. Taken down from a California high school. Horizontal wo...

Crafted in France circa 1890, and set in the original carved giltwood frames, both antique porcelain plaques depict a hand painted pastoral scene in the beige and white palette. One ...

This 19th-century Biedermeier oil portrait depicts Julius Ferdinand Dreysel, an influential textile manufacturer from Plauen, Germany. Painted around 1840 on a solid panel, he is por...

Manner of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli - Italian, 1485-1576) An Oil on Canvas "Sleeping Cupid" within a gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reve...

Pair of American oil on canvas portraits in the original floral gilt frames and stretchers. South Carolina, Late 18th century. Signed Dr. Anthony Hemingway on re-verso.

A rare pair of large 19th-century oil portraits depicting Julius Ferdinand Dreysel and his wife Friedericke, prominent figures in the textile industry of Plauen, Germany. Painted aro...

This 1840s portrait presents a Dutch gentleman of notable status. He is dressed in a crisp white shirt with high collars, a black silk necktie, and a gold brooch on his chest, reflec...

Napoleone Luigi Grady (Italian, 1860-1949) A Very Fine Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Bicorne Hat". The beautifully executed artwork depicting a posing young boy in full period celebrato...

English Oil on canvas Whippet landscape painting in the original gilt burl walnut frame. Early 19th Century

Decorate an office or study with this elegant pair of antique paintings. Crafted in France circa 1870, the artworks hand painted on board, are set inside the original beautiful carve...

This charming 19th-century French landscape painting is executed on board and protected under glass within a finely cast giltwood frame. The pastoral scene features a tranquil groupi...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas, made on the first canvas and framed with a contemporary rectangular frame in carved and gilded wood. The painting represents a striking image of the...

A beautifully executed early 20th Century oil on canvas marine painting. Signed Charles Langenbeck ( 1873-1943) dated 1906 and presented in a robust carved giltwood frame. The paint...

Manner of Sir John Hoppner 'British, 1758-1810' Portrait of Master Robin Vanecke oil on canvas. A beautiful Hand Carved and crafted Large and imposing Frame. It is the perfect wall A...

English Victorian carved gilt framed oil landscape painting of cows by stream (Walt Williams)

18th Century, Italian Pair of Paintings on Glass in Giltwood Frames This exquisite pair of paintings executed on glass is presented within finely carved and gilded wooden mirrors da...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas, set in a contemporary carved, ebonized, and gilded wooden frame. The painting depicts a somewhat shady landscape, with trees and a thick meadow. A s...

Decorate a study, library, or office with this charming antique genre painting. Created in Holland circa 1860, this finely detailed oil on canvas depicts a lively domestic interior w...

American Victorian oil on canvas landscape of a marshy field with a grey sky (possibly Long Island, NY) in a gold carved frame (sign...

Interesting Mid-Century Modern art work of camelia-like flowers that are both carved and painted on wood. Unframed. The signature states the artist is ...

Varsity track and field sign from the early 1970s. Hand painted red sign with yellow lettering. Horizontal wood slates to hold name cards of record hol...

16th Century Oil Painting of Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III, Antique Religious Oil Painting, Antique Royal King Oil Painting, Hans Burgkmair the older. 16th Century Oil Painting on board of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III by circle or school of Hans Burgkmair the older (1473 - 1531). Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III. (1415 – 1493). Oil on wooden panel. Described top right. In later attractive European gilt frame with black & gilt inner decoration, circa 18th Century. Hans Burgkmair was a German woodcut...

Decorate a wall with this colorful antique painting. Created in France, circa 1960 and signed in the lower right corner by French artist, Andre Vignoles, the oil on canvas is framed ...

Decorate a wall with this colorful antique painting. Created in France, circa 1960 and signed in the lower right corner by French artist, Andre Vignoles, the oil on canvas is framed ...

PAIR of Rustic Adirondack style (1940s) mezzotint hunt scene pictures framed in carved bark (PRICED AS PAIR) (Similar pair: 056178)

This splendid oil painting on canvas, in Neo-Renaissance style, depicts a young Florentine man from the Renaissance period. Its workmanship closely rese...

Pair of English Nobel figural oil on canvas oval portraits of male posing with hunting canine companions and female sitting in garden posing with flowers and lamb. Paintings have bee...

Decorate an office, study, or powder room with this delightful "Fausse Paire" of antique genre paintings. Crafted in France circa 1850 and set in their original carved giltwood frame...

Portrait of a Lady American Painter Wall Mount Art Decorative Painting Framed LA , SIGNED DATED by Robert Rylend (1873-1951) American Artist. Portrait of Irene Dobson , 1914 Robert Knight Ryland (American, 1873–1951). At the beginning of World war I , this painting piece of wall art was signed on the canvas 1914 , with a carved giltwood simple frame . pure elegance that goes with modern and traditional design alike . on the frame someone carved on it in 1948 , right after the end of world war II . Ryland American painter also worked for the Tiffany Studios . his painting “ Morning with Snow ” 25 X 20 inches Sold $12,500 in 2019 it's a stunning piece of Art to add to your special collection, add a touch of color and charm to your home. It is very decorative and versatile, it can go in a bedroom a living room , office , entry . or simply mounted on top of your fireplace as a focal point. The frame is beautiful with some cracks and losses as seen in the pictures over Decades of elements, overall good condition. Antique Dealer West Hollywood CA Melrose Ave La Cienega Blvd. This painting is timeless , it can be in a traditional décor as well as a farm, a winery , a modern house , midcentury. A great gift idea for a house warming, or to add to your collection of unique beautiful happy Artwork. Biography Robert Ryland...

Large 18th C. Bucolic Painting Garden Nature Scene Landscape Dog Flowers Antique . A Beautiful Hand painted bucolic " Bucolique " painting in the spir...

This is a magnificent example of an Art Deco version of Madonna’s Immaculate Conception painted in ca 1920s Era in Vienna. Masterfully done, the painting has very dramatic bright Color scheme-typical for this period. It is definitely a great fit and a conversation piece for any kind of home, either contemporary, traditional or modern. The Painting is set in a dramatic large heavy 19th century gold gilded frame...

This elegant antique oil on canvas painting was created in Germany circa 1880 and is titled “A Heavenly Recital.” The large genre scene depicts three jovial monks enjoying a private ...

Oval pastel painting on paper, framed by an oval frame in carved and gilded wood in gold pastille. The painting is also protected by glass, to pre...

18th Century Oil on Canvas Heraldic Funerary Hatchment Painting, Memento Mori Painting, Vanitas Skull Painting, Vanitas Painting. A large high quality 1...

A wonderfully charming large and colorful Chinese hand painted wallpaper section in a carved and shaped hardwood frame. The wallpaper dates to the first half of the 20th century or e...

Veneto, Italy, early 18th century Oil on canvas 20th century frame carved and gilded in pure gold Dimensions: cm W 93 x H 78,5 x D 5.

Italian oval oil on board gilt carved wood portrait of a gentleman in the original floral and berry frame, 18th century.

This 17th century panel painting is a depiction of a praying Franciscan monk, or of Saint Francis. The grey-brown habit, the skull and the book are ...

Beautiful oil painting on a wooden panel, set in a period frame of carved wood and gilded with gold leaf, to which period wooden supports were added to fit the frame. The painting de...

Delight in the beauty of early 20th-century art with this captivating watercolor by Campana, a renowned French Art Deco painter. Created around 1920, this painting beautifully depict...