Hand-Carved Paintings

American Mid-Century surrealist oil on canvas depicting a orange in a white sheet resting on a table with a bouquet of sunflowers (Robert Springfels)

Decorate a wall with this elegant floral still life presented in a carved and painted frame with gilt accents. The composition depicts a lush arrangement of white dogwood blossoms an...

More information coming soon… An outdoor market, nestled at the base of the Italian Alps, is the subject of this small oil on canvas painting. Although the market is not packed, th...

Giuseppe Pitto (Italian 1857 - 1928) is often known for his paintings depicting pretty women in Italian street markets. This exuberantly painted scene i...

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 ...

A beautiful neoclassical painting made in oil on canvas and framed in a contemporary carved and gilded wooden frame. The painting features a notable use of chiaroscuro and shadows an...

American oil on canvas of landscape depicting mountains, meadows, and a stream in the original mounted foliage gilt frame. Late 19th Century.

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

A charming oil on canvas genre painting depicting the innocence of youth, the subjects of this scene are two young children on a cherry farm. A young girl with light brown hair in pi...

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

Bas-relief China, 1900 the Eight Immortals and the "Crossing of the Seas." Chinese bas-relief depicting the Eight Immortals and the "Crossing of the Seas." Bas-relief depicting THE ...

This large original vintage needlepoint artwork shows a family in their countryside cottage with some chickens. Created around 1960 and hand-stitched in wool in rich, warm colors and...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted 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, 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. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 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...

Attributed to Giorgio Lucchesi (1855-1941) A large and impressive early 20th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo...

American oil on board landscape of young lady standing by rabbit in foreground with the original molded pine frame and wood backing. Early 19th century.

Elegant pair of oval paintings, created in pastel on paper and framed in carved, gilded wood. The exquisite frames, adorned with ribbons at the top, house two portraits of two women ...

Beautifully framed oil on canvas representing a blue figure. Size: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches canvas, 22 1/8 x 18 1/2 inches frame.

A vintage original oil painting of a cottage interior, dating from 1960. The painting shows a cozy room with a view through the door and window into the countryside. Presented in its...

A refined oil painting on canvas, framed in gilded and ebonized carved wood. The painting depicts a hilly landscape with a forest, within which we can glimpse architecture and figure...

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

Decorate a study, library, dining room, or country house interior with this charming pair of antique French pastoral paintings. Crafted in Fr...

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...

Very Large Landscape Verdure Pastoral Oil on Canvas, Ch. Boulogne Cows Watering Verdure painting. Signed Artwork. The “Cows Watering by the River at Sunset” 4 feet height x 7 feet &...

Mid-Century Italian genre scene oil painting on canvas depicting a plaza / street scene with blooming flowers and umbrella-shaded tables surrounded by buildings in a carved rectangul...

English Victorian bleached and carved framed oil painting of seascape with row boat and sail boats by shore line. (signed BREANSKI)

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.

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 ...

A French watercolor on paper portrait of a distinguished gentleman in a beret. Signed by the artist. Surrounded by mat board under protective glass, with a new silver gilt frame and ...

American Victorian carved gilt framed oil painting of man with 3 cows and dog by dirt road and bridge. Condition: (Lower left edge of frame damage...

Elegant oil painting on tinned copper, set in a contemporary carved and gilded wooden frame. The painting depicts a seascape: on the left are rocks on which stands a naval tower, whi...

High time the California Desert Wall Art Oil on Canvas Decorative object framed . A Nicely painted Artwork oil on Canvas of the high time in the California D...

This antique trumeau, carved in the manner of Louis XVI, is oil-painted with a scene of French pastoral life in the top third, above the mirror. A barefoot French country-girl leans ...

A vintage original oil painting of a cozy cottage interior, dating from around 1940. The painting shows a girl standing in a cozy room and looking out into the countryside. Presented in its original gilded frame, it is a charming piece with warmth and character. Painted in warm colours, this interior scene has a soft and homely feel. A lovely piece that works well in a living room, hallway or bedroom. The work is signed by the artist C. Anders, known for warm interior scenes inspired by everyday country life. This one-of-a-kind oil painting adds warmth and character to your home. Period: 20th century, circ 1940 Material: oil on canvas Frame: original gilded frame Colours: brown, red, green, gold, gilded Signed: yes, signed by the artist C. Anders. Country of Origin: Denmark Style: vintage, European rustic Condition: good, in original condition. Wear is consistent with age and use. The painting is ready to hang. Size with frame in inches: Height: 19 in Width: 22 in Depth: 2 in Size with frame in cm: Height: 48 cm Width: 56 cm Depth: 5 cm Like this piece? See similar paintings in my shop. Key details: Vintage interior oil painting Vintage cottage painting Vintage farmhouse art...

English Victorian carved gilt & black painted framed oil landscape painting of boy with dog and bulls by trail Condition: (Piece shows its age.)

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.

American oil on canvas portrait of seated young lady in the original gilt wood floral flame, New York, Mid-19th century.

Large oil painting on canvas, presented in a contemporary carved wooden frame gilded with pure gold leaf. The painting depicts a city along the river, with a mill in the center, and ...

English Victorian carved gilt framed oil painting of 3 women and man outside house

English Victorian carved gilt framed oil seascape painting of 2 boats by white cliffs (Hayes) Condition: (Canvas has been patched and repaired, some small holes, cracks and repairs...

French Impressionist (19th Cent) carved gilt framed oil cobbled street scene, painting of lady by steps of house.

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...

19th Century, Italian Carved Giltwood Trumeau Mirror The refined mirror, made in Piedmont, Italy, towards the beginning of the nineteenth century, has an elegant frame in finely car...

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...

Richard Durando-Togo is a painter of Argentine origin who spent most of his life in Italy and France, in the latter country he settled permanently in 1934. He is a self-taught artist...

Italian Neo-classic (19/20th Cent) style gilt framed square oil vertical landscape painting of garden with gazebo.

English Victorian (19th-Cent) townscape of two women and a dog in a market. Oil on canvas in a carved gilt wood frame.

This large vintage original oil painting shows a cozy European village, cottages and blue skies. The cottages are typical Scandinavian countryside cottages, painted in soft natural c...

A vintage original oil painting of a Scandinavian countryside cottage, dated 1923. The scene shows traditional cottages in a quiet countryside setting. Presented in its original gilded frame, it is ready to hang. The cottage scene and soft colours make it a lovely piece for above a console, in a dining area, or on a smaller wall that needs a classic touch. The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1923 in the lower corner. Period: 20th century, 1923 Material: Oil on canvas Frame: Original gilded frame Colours: Red, brown, green, blue, gold Signed: Yes, signed and dated 1923 by the artist in the lower corner Country of origin: Denmark Style: Vintage / European rustic Condition: Good vintage condition. Wear is consistent with age and use. The frame has some age-related patina and a small hairline fracture. The painting remains in original condition and is ready to hang. Size with frame in inches: Height: 17 in Width: 20 in Depth: 2 in Size with frame in cm: Height: 42.5 cm Width: 52 cm Depth: 5 cm Like this piece? See similar paintings in my shop Key details: vintage cottage painting vintage farmhouse art...

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...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas framed in an elegant canvas frame and inside a carved and gilded frame with mirror. The work portrays a young woman with enchanting features, dark ha...

Our captivating and large oil painting in a giltwood frame (49.5 inches) is a snapshot of life in France during the 1800s. The artist (St Aubin, signed in the...

A fine Italian Belle Époque oil on canvas "Venetian Belle" depicting a young maiden walking the Riva degli Schiavoni, the Venetian waterfront, being admired by an elder male, with vi...

Elegant pastel painting on paper, framed in a lacquered and gilded wooden frame and protected by glass. Inspired by the pose of a famous painting by the Spanish painter Murillo (1618...

18th Century, Pair of Italian Paintigs with Still Life attr. by Angelo Bartolomeo Vacca sr Oil on canvas, cm W 105,5 x H 75,5 x D 7; only canvas cm W 93,5 x H 63 The paintings, made...

American oil on canvas landscape with a flowing stream, trees and mountains, watering cows in the foreground, sun in the background, encompassed on the origi...

Decorate a wall or study with this charming antique French genre painting, crafted circa 1870. The oil on canvas composition captures a touching winter scene at the threshold of a ru...

Oil painting on canvas, framed in carved and gilded wood. The painting depicts a view of a terrace overlooking the Neapolitan coast. In the distance, the sea and Mount Vesuvius can b...

Refined pair of oil paintings on wooden panels, complete with a carved wooden frame and a wooden passe-partout. The paintings depict two figures, both on white horses. The first, wit...

American pastel of young lady grasping dove in the original oval floral gilt frame presented under glass, Mid 19th Century. Original paper label on back. Ursuline Convent, Valle Cru...

Bring architectural character and Victorian artistry to an interior with this elegant pair of antique ceramic wall plaques. Crafted in England circa 1890, each hand-painted Minton plaque...