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Antique 19th Century Paintings

About this collection

Antique 19th century oil paintings belong to the century in which European painters left the studio for the open air, from the Barbizon landscape and the Realist countryside to Impressionism and the finished pictures of the Salon.

The easel went outdoors. Forest and river landscapes, harvest fields and flocks, hunting subjects and animal paintings came back from it, while portraits and religious compositions kept to the studio. Most are oils on canvas or panel. Many are signed, some dated in the painter's own hand. To follow the move into the open air, read about the Barbizon School and Impressionism.

Portrait of Emperor Joseph II, 19th century Austrian School oil on canvas, in a gilt frame

Austrian School, 19th century

Emperor Joseph II, 1800s
$2,900
Portrait of a hussar officer in pale blue dolman with black fur pelisse and a silver breast star, early 19th century Austrian oil on canvas in a period gilt frame

Austrian School, early 19th century

Hussar Officer in Blue, 1800s
$2,900
Signed heather path landscape by James Desvarreux, a sand track climbing between banks of flowering heather toward blue hills, late 19th century oil in a period gilt frame

James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)

Heather Path in Bloom
$2,700Signed
Barbizon School landscape with a woman and child by the water, 19th century French oil on canvas by Edmond Renault, in an ornate gilt frame

Charles Edmond Renault (1829-1905)

Woman and Child by the Water, 1800s
$3,600Signed

Guides · before you buy

Emperors, Officers and the Symbols They WoreA double-headed eagle, a golden ram on a ribbon, a white coat.Read the guideHaystacks in French Painting, Before and After MonetSixty years of French haystacks before Monet made them the whole picture, and the difference between a sheaf and a stack.Read the guide
Portrait of a young Austrian officer in white uniform with the Golden Fleece, Austrian school oil on canvas, early 19th century, in a wide gilt frame

Austrian School, early 19th century

Officer with the Golden Fleece
$2,700
Portrait of a Habsburg archduke in the white uniform of the Austrian army with the Golden Fleece and the Maria Theresa star, Austrian school circa 1800, in a gilt frame

Austrian School, circa 1800

Archduke in White Uniform
$3,200
Barbizon school river landscape with a cow, 19th century French oil, gilt carved frame

French School, 19th century

River Landscape with Cow, 1800s
$2,700
Moonlight over two windmills beside a canal, signed oil on canvas, late 19th century, in a fluted gilt frame

European School, late 19th century

Moonlight over Two Windmills, 1800s
$3,200Signed
Full view of the framed canvas, blossoming tree and thatched farm with hens, in its carved gilt swept frame

Paul Emmanuel Péraire (1829-1893)

Blossoming Tree and Farmyard
$3,700Signed
Corchon y Diaque portrait of a woman with a wine-red silk ribbon in her hair, oil on panel in a carved giltwood frame with water leaf ornament

Corchon y Diaque (1853-1925)

Woman in a Wine-Red Silk Cap
$5,700Signed
A young woman in a pink silk gown reaching to a rose on a garden terrace, a servant with a basket of flowers at the right and a spaniel at her feet, in a carved gilt frame

Louis Lassalle (1810-1870)

Young Woman Gathering Roses
$5,785Signed
A girl in a blue skirt feeding a flock of turkeys in a shorn field at the edge of an oak wood, signed oil by Emile Michel dated 1872, in a carved gilt frame

Emile Michel (1828-1909)

Girl with Turkeys, 1872
$6,700Signed
Young man in a dark coat and high white cravat against a grey ground, small early nineteenth century French oil portrait in its original gilt bead frame

French School, early 19th century

Young Man in a High Stock
$1,900
Antique French Barbizon landscape with haystacks signed and dated 1882, oil on wood panel in a gilded carved frame

Eugène Forest (1808-1891)

Haystacks Landscape, 1880s
$2,600Signed
Two oxen under the yoke drawing a cart across flowering heather with sheep grazing, signed Desvarreux oil on canvas in a carved gilt frame

James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937)

Oxen and Sheep in a Clearing
$3,700Signed
Signed oil study by Marcellin Desboutin of a laughing boy in a working shirt, in a gilt wood frame

Marcellin Desboutin (1823-1902)

Laughing Boy
$4,900Signed
Eliezer offering the gold bracelet to Rebecca at the well, a dozen women with water jars before Roman architecture, oil on canvas after Nicolas Poussin

French School, circa 1800

Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well
$4,700
19th century French oil portrait of a woman with blue flowers in her hair, gilt oval frame

French School, 19th century

Woman with Blue Flowers, 1857
$2,730Signed
The Virgin rising with arms open, carried by five draped angels above a dark plain and a walled town, in a moulded gilt frame (after Poussin, 1881)

French School, 19th century

Assumption of the Virgin, 1881
$3,500
Sunset landscape with a shepherd and his flock in silhouette against an orange sun, in a silvered moulded frame (Etienne Mein)

Etienne Mein (1865-1938)

Oedipus and Antigone at Sunset
$3,800Signed
Signed orientalist oil painting of a palm oasis and rocky gorge at sunset, late 19th century, in a gilded wood frame

John Lewis Shonborn (1852-1931)

Oasis Gorge at Sunset
$3,900Signed
Signed Adolphe-Félix Cals landscape of sheaves in a stubble field, oil on canvas, 19th century French school, in a gilt frame with flower corners

Adolphe-Félix Cals (1810-1880)

Haystacks in a Stubble Field
$8,900Signed
Five stooks of cut wheat in a stubble field under a clouded summer sky, a dark treeline behind, in a carved gilt and black frame (Gaston Bonfils)

Gaston Bonfils (1855-1946)

Sheaves in a Harvest Field
$2,400Signed
The unframed panel on a small easel on a marquetry desk in a panelled study, next to bound books and brass candlesticks

Tristan Lacroix (1849-1914)

Huntsman and Hounds, 1891
$2,900Signed

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Two paths ran side by side for most of the century. Landscape painters worked outdoors, while the official exhibitions in Paris kept their taste for the carefully finished picture. The 19th century oil paintings in this collection belong to that double tradition, original 1800s works, most of them French, and every nineteenth century oil painting here is described from the canvas itself.

  • Signatures became the rule. Painters of the century signed in a lower corner, and a signed 19th century French oil painting can usually be placed in its painter's career, especially when a date or a dedication sits beside the name. Some are signed and dated on wood panel, many keep their gilt frames, and unsigned ones are described by school and decade, as our guide to reading an attribution explains.

  • One exhibition decided careers. The Paris Salon, the great official exhibition, showed thousands of works each year and rewarded the smooth, finished academic style taught in the schools. A French Salon painting of the 19th century is recognised by that finish, a careful surface and a clear subject, and much of the century's portraiture and genre painting followed it even outside the exhibition halls.

  • Landscape rose to the top of the century, and its pastoral scenes with sheep and oxen, heather moors and river banks gather in our collection of Barbizon School paintings. Studio subjects held their place too, genre scenes of daily life, religious scenes on canvas, portraits of young men in high stocks and women in pearls, and officers in uniform, all painted with a new attention to the real.