The overlay on the left shows an original drawing by Rubens layed over an image on the Flemish painting. Please refer to the Flemish Painting in our listing. The image on the right shows an overlay using a drawing by Rubens self-portrait. This drawing matches the image on the Flemish painting. New lab tests confirms the gold color is real "GOLD" on canvas!! GILDED GOLD HALO and FABRIC DESIGNS!! "NOTICE THE ISABELLA BRANT PORTRAIT OVERLAY"

An antique 18th-century European oil painting, "Still Life," is an exquisite work of art crafted on heavy, hand-woven canvas. The canvas depicts a beautiful arrangement of flowers in a stone vase and a variety of fruits laid on a table with a marble top.

The painting showcases the flowers and fruits with great precision, and the intricate detailing is a testament to the artist's skill...

A beautiful English Seventeenth Century Etching “Townscape” Framed 12” x 17”

Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Odysseus and Hermes Before Circe". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

We are delighted to present to you this remarkable pair of candlesticks in the shape of Athenian women, real jewels inspired by the drawings of the illustrious artist Jean-Charles Delafosse. These 18th century candlesticks harmoniously combine functionality and aesthetics, offering a unique experience. Each candle holder, in addition to being a magnificent candle holder, is also a refined perfume burner...

MADONNA AND CHILD WITH THR INFANT SAINT JOHN THE BAPIST, oil on wood panel, done before 1500 framed measuring 28” x 22” Raphael1483-1520) Who Was Raphael? Italian Renaissance painter and architect Raphael became Perugino's apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican...

A PAIR of old engravings from the Passion of Christ series of 14, engraved originally in 1521 by Dutch old master engraver LUCAS VAN LEYDEN (1494-1533). My research leads me to believe these two are apparently later impressions printed on wove rather than laid paper, by noted Flemish engraver Jan Harmansz Muller (1571-1628). (Wove, as opposed to "laid" paper, was not invented until the mid 18th century). The talented Muller made skilled and faithful copies after earlier artists' works...

Lady Seated, Contemplating is the title of this Ming Dynasty, Chong Zheng Ren Wu period (1642) painting on silk. Signed with red seals by the artist LAN MEI WEI

Wenceslaus Hollar Hanns Holbein Portrait c 1647 Self-portrait of Hans Holbein as 45-years old in 1543. This copy was engraved by Hollar in 1647. Fair condition mounted corners on left side may have restoration . good image a bit over 5.5" and a bit under 4.5"

Print, engraving, Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) (after Sir Anthony Van Dyck) by Pieter De Jode II (Antwerp 1606 - England c.1674) printed c 1630-1645 Half-length portrait of man with left hand across chest. He is wearing a ruff, with short beard and moustache and leaning against a building/pillar.Size 10" by 7.25" water marked and old collection notations on back. Inscribed 'IACOBUS IORDAENS./ PICTOR ANTVERPIAE, HUMANARUM FIGURARUM, IN MAIORIBUS./ Ant van Dyck pinxit. Pet de Iode Sculp...

Six original etchings from LES MYSTERES DE LA PASSION by Jacques Callot printed in 1631. Scenes represented are (upper row left to right, lower row right to left): Adoration of the Sheperds, Visitation, Adoration of the Kings, Entombment, Descent of the Holy Spirit and Descent to the Limbo. Lieure catalog numbers 685-690 (images and descriptions in Lieure catalog are mismatched, I used numbers from descriptions), second state of two...

Authentic antique Fine Baroque 17th Century Italian School Oil on Canvas of "Mary Magdalene". The painting depicts the penitent Mary Magdalene in her grotto with her face rendered with spiritual ecstasy and long red gold hair, in a sumptuous dress falling from Mary’s arms as she holds within her hands a skull, and a domed ointment jar which she used to anoint the feet of Jesus.

CONDITION: Minor paint loss, some crazing throughout, overall in very good condition...

Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Odysseus and the Sirens". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

Antoni Waterloo 1609-1690 Dutch This is an original period printing of The Antoni Waterloo etching, Mercury and Argus. This etching is the 2nd state of three showing the artist initials upper left corner, a proof before letters, The image is in the Barsch catalog as image number 127ii. The image measures 11 1/2X9 1/2 inches. The sheet measures 14X11 1/8 inches. Collectors annotations and stamps on the back of the sheet, From the A. Coppenrath and Frierich Kalla, Moscow collection...

Original etching by Jacques Callot LE MASSACRE DES INNOCENTS printed in 1622 in Nancy. Lieure catalog number 427, second state of two, good size margins, excellent impression of this important print. Small crown watermark on the paper, slight darkening in the corners where the print was mounted, overall in excellent condition. Plate size 134x110mm, paper size 157x127mm.

Original etching RICIULINA AND METZETIN by Jacques Callot printed in 1621 from the series BALLI DI SFESSANIA. Series depict one of the most delightful festivals of Commedia dell’Arte based on fertility dances held in the Tuscan village of Sfessania. Pairs of popular entertainers are framed against the scenes of a fairground. One print from the series of 24 etchings, Lieure catalog number 386, first state of two, on laid paper, cut to the plate. Paper size 72x93mm...

Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Perseus Slaying Medusa". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 9 7/8 x 17 5/8, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.

Unusually large detailed engraving, 31 1/4" by 20 1/8", laid down on board, of Christ coming down off the Cross, this example engraved by Nicolaus Dorigny (1657-1776), and possibly after Daniel Ricciarelli (1509-1566), in turn after a painting by Raphael. The work is dated 1720 at lower left. There's a lot of text in Latin at bottom, and a close look reveals the names of the two above artists...

Jacob Matham, European, 1571-1631, Engraving after Goltzius, "Saint Mary Magdalen Penitent", First state, image size: 10 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches, Fogg Museum provenance, J W Randall collection #1953

A very fine possibly Dutch seventeenth century oil painting of the Madonna and child, measuring 27” x 20”, frame size 32” x 25”

An unframed circa late 1600's or early 1700's oil on wood panel painting of old ruins in a poetic Italianate landscape that includes a distant bridge over a river, more ruins, and several tiny foreground figures with their animals. The 9 3/4" by 12 5/8" oak panel shows great age; it is ever so slightly bowed. I do not see a signature although there may have been one at one time at lower left, where others have rubbed perhaps with saliva, to try to bring up a signature...

Woodcut with the martyrdom of Apollinaris outside the city walls of Ravenna...

Fine old drawing of two women and a man, a horse, cow, dog and five goats in a landscape, 17th or 18th century, after the Dutch Old Master artist NICOLAES BERCHEM (1620-1683). The drawing, measuring 11 1/8" by 16 1/4", (19" by 24 1/2" as framed) was laid down long ago on a thin card. It is unsigned. An old label including cut-out printed catalog entry and a hand-written note thereon, accompanies the drawing. It indicates that this is lot 64 of the sale of March 25, 1914 at the American Art G...

Original etching by Jacques Callot LE MASSACRE DES INNOCENTS printed in 1618 in Florence, powerful violent biblical scene represented in a European city setting. Lieure catalog number 278, second state of two, excellent impression of this important print. In excellent condition, framed and glazed, not examined outside of frame. Plate size 13,5 x 107 mm (5 3/8 x 4 3/16 inches), frame size 11 x 9 inches.

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1564-1651. This exquisite drawing in ink, wash and chaulk is a fine example of Bloemaert's talent. It is 13.2 cm h by 9.5 cm w.Provenance: Private Collection, Leslie Hindman Auction, Private Collection, Fine English Collection ( paper verso ). Condition is good and it has an old label from Folio fine Art LTD in London. The son of an architect, Abraham Bloemaert, known for painting, engraving and teaching, was born in Gorinchem, Holland in 1564. At age nine, he moved ...

( Consignment). Renaissance Deposition after Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Oil Painting 74 x 51. Carracci is an Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism.The sons of a tailor, Annibale and his older brother Agostino were at first guided by their older cousin Lodovico, a painter who persuaded them to follow him in his profession. Annibale’s precocious talents developed in a tour of northern Italy ...

A classically beautiful unframed red chalk on old paper drawing of a woman dressed as a nun, possibly a saint, surrounded by winged and putti-like figures, Christ on the cross at left background, circa 1700 Roman School. The Old Master drawing is beautifully worked. Formerly attributed to Guercino, now "Roman School". The old paper is laid on a thin card. There are several very small paper losses and several circular brown stains in center portion, but these are easily overlooked, as they ar...

A very antique unsigned red chalk drawing on laid paper, late 17th or early 18th century, measuring 9 7/8" by 7 1/2" (25 cm. by 19 cm.), 15 1/2" by 12 1/2" as framed, proclaimed at bottom in neat professional hand lettering, on the mat, to be by the Italian master Guercino (1592-1666). The old master drawings expert of a major auction house did not believe this to be by Guercino, and suggested Lanfranco or Albani as possible directions to pursue. I have opened up the backing and discovered th...

Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert. On the background a landscape with buildings and a windmill. 58th plate of the series. Inscription on the bottom: 'ABRAHAMUS BLOEMAERT, / BATAV, PICT. / Pictor naturâ est, usus vix ille magistro: / Arte hic egregiis nec tamen inferior. / Pinxit Aves, Naves, Homines, Herbásque Ferásque, / Et laetos Flores FLORIDUS innumeros'. Etching and engraving, varg type paper with a mitre like watermark ; total:8.5 by 5"

A Dutch 17th century etching of a standing horse near a humble abode, 6 3/4" by 7 3/4" (14" by 15 1/2" in 20th century appropriate black frame), unsigned, and with no initials or other indication as to authorship. The work bears old pencil notations on the reverse side of the mat; there appear to be names of potential artists that were pondered by a previous observer in my position (including, it appears, question marks to himself). The names appear to be "Karl des Jardin", "Dirk Stoop", "Pott...

Attributed to English artist J.Leslie, 19th Century English Painter, Mother and Child Oil Painting painted in the Italian style Frame Size 36 x 28"

Saint Receiving the Holy Spirit signed (L.R). Sebastian Ricci. Italian 18th Century painter Sebastiano Ricci. Oil on Canvas. 18 x 13". Frame Size 23 x 18" Sebastiano Ricci (1659 - 1734) was an Italian painter of the Late Baroque school in Venice.

"Joyful Wedding", Unsigned, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, 33 x 48", Frame Size 43 x 58"

18th Century Colonial Spanish “ “Cartagena Gold” oil 28x38” Is a work on canvas depicting the gold fields of Columbia and treasures of gold bound for Spain in the late eighteenth century. Measuring 28x38”

Dutch Artist Jan Griffier The Younger “Golden Age Landscape” Oil 42x36, a beautiful painting depicting an English gentleman hunter who comes upon an ancient ruin with the sculpture of The Mythical figure of Cronus oil on canvas measuring 48x36 inches……Jan Griffier II (1688–c.1750]) was an 18th-century painter active in England. Biography Griffier was born in England and died in London. According to Houbraken, Jan Griffier's son Robert was born on 7 October 1688, but he mixed up his...

This is an antique 18th-century, circa 1740 AD, oil portrait of King Augustus III (October 17, 1696 – October 5, 1763), hand-painted on heavy, hand-woven canvas with great attention to detail.

From 1733 to 1763, he was the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Elector of Saxony.

The king is depicted wearing armor and a blue moiré silk sash of the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He also has a black cravat and an elaborate white lace collar.

An ermine-trimmed red coro...