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Antique 17th Century Paintings

About this collection

Antique 17th century oil paintings belong to the Baroque age, when the schools of France, Flanders, Italy and the German lands turned to dramatic light, deep shadow and heightened emotion.

Light did the work. Biblical and devotional subjects dominate the century, beside allegories of the seasons, gallant scenes and portraits, painted on canvas, on oak panel and occasionally on copper. Most are unsigned, so each attribution stays prudent, and our guide to reading an attribution explains what after, circle of and follower of mean. To place these works in their traditions, read about Flemish Baroque and Italian Baroque painting.

Five putti with music books and oboes in a landscape, late 17th century Flemish oil on panel, in a gilded frame

Flemish School, late 17th century

Concert of Putti, late 1600s
$4,800
The Virgin and Child at the left, the eldest king kneeling in yellow, a crowd of twelve behind, Flemish, 17th century

Flemish School, 17th century

Adoration of the Magi, 1600s
$7,900
Seventeenth century German School portrait of a man in a plain white linen collar against a black ground, oil on panel in a deep gilt frame

German School, 17th century

Man in a White Collar, 1600s
$8,900
Seventeenth century French allegory of autumn, a young woman with fruit beneath a tree in a harvest landscape, oil on panel in its original painted frame

French School, 17th century

Allegory of Autumn, 1600s
$3,920

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SoldAntique 17th century Flemish oil on copper, the penitent Mary Magdalene, in ripple moulded frame

Flemish School, 17th century

Penitent Magdalene, 1600sSold
Seventeenth century French oil of Saint John the Baptist as a child holding the lamb and the reed cross, in a carved oval giltwood frame

French School, 17th century

Saint John with the Lamb, 1600s
$6,300
A city burning on the right, Lot and his daughters in shadow on the left, Flemish, circa 1600

Flemish School, circa 1600

The Fire of Sodom, circa 1600
$8,700
Antique French oil on wood panel, a gallant scene with Cupid in a formal garden, in moulded frame

French School, late 17th century

Gallant Couple in a Garden
$4,800
Ecce Homo after Correggio, Christ crowned with thorns in half length against an olive ground, oil on canvas in an antique ebonised frame

Italian School, 17th century

Ecce Homo, 1600s
$11,000
Antique 17th century oil on wood panel, Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, in period gilt frame

Flemish School, 17th century

The Samaritan Woman, 1600s
$5,800
Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, 17th century oil on canvas, in an ebonised frame with painted decoration

French School, 17th century

Christ and the Samaritan, 1600s
$5,300
Allegory of Winter, French School 17th century, oil on panel in a moulded wood frame

French School, 17th century

Allegory of Winter, 1600s
$4,300
Large antique 17th century Italian penitent Magdalene with a skull, oil on canvas in gilded frame

Italian School, 17th century

Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1600s
$12,000
A floral garland on a black ground with the Holy Family in an oval at the centre, Flemish, 17th century

Flemish School, late 17th century

Rest on the Flight, late 1600s
$6,900

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17th century paintings for sale at GalerieClub

The 1600s changed what a painting could do. Across Europe, painters turned to strong light, deep shadow and the drama of a single moment, and the century gave the West its great age of oil painting. The 17th century oil paintings in this collection come from that age, original 1600s works from several European traditions, most of them unsigned.

  • Canvas was not yet the only support. Many painters of the century still worked on boards of oak, smooth enough for fine glazes, and a 17th century oil painting on wood panel often keeps its original joins and battens on the reverse, which help to date the picture when the style cannot. Smaller devotional pictures went onto sheets of copper, whose hard surface holds colour bright for centuries.

  • Faith came first. Old Testament narratives, scenes from the life of Christ and the saints, and devotional images for private rooms fill the century, and more of them hang among our antique religious paintings. Painters also gave the seasons the shape of figures, set courtly couples in gardens and recorded sitters in dark dress and a white collar, the portrait fashion of the 1600s.

  • Most paintings of the century carry no signature. Large workshops, pupils and followers worked in the manner of the masters they served, and a work is described here as school of, circle of or manner of, never under a name it cannot support.