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Antique Oil Paintings

About this collection

Antique oil paintings are original works in oil on canvas, panel or copper, painted between the 16th and the 19th century. It is the medium in which almost the entire European tradition, from the Old Masters to the Impressionists, was built.

The paintings presented here span that whole tradition, from Baroque religious subjects and Grand Siècle portraits to Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes. Many of them are signed, and many are presented in period frames. Each is an original work in oil, hand painted and one of a kind, sourced in France and shipped free to the USA and Canada.

Two tigers resting before a dark rock at dusk, mid 19th century French oil on canvas in a gilt frame
Two Tigers in a Landscape, Oil on Canvas, French Romantic School, Mid-19th Century, Gilt Frame

19th century

Sale price$12,000
Signed 19th century haystacks landscape by Adolphe Cals with poplars and apple tree, gilt frame
Signed Oil Painting, Haystacks Landscape by Adolphe Felix Cals (1810-1880), Listed French Impressionist, Oil on Canvas

19th century

Sale price$8,900
Signed 19th century French portrait of a Pekingese dog named Kit, oil on panel in oak frame
Ernest Jean Delahaye (1855-1921), Portrait of a Pekingese Dog "Kit", Signed Oil on Panel, Late 19th Century, Framed

19th century

Sale price$2,900
Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, 17th century Old Master oil on canvas in an ebonised frame with gilt scrollwork
Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, 17th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed Old Master Painting

17th century

Sale price$5,300
Fox standing over a fallen duck in a dark wood, signed oil on canvas by Ernest Brigot
A Fox with a Fallen Duck, Original Oil on Canvas by Ernest Brigot, Signed, 19th Century

19th century

Sale price$13,000
Antique 19th century French portrait of two white spitz dogs, oil on canvas in gilt frame
Portrait of Two White Spitz Dogs, Unsigned Oil on Canvas, 19th Century French School, Framed

19th century

Sale price$2,700
Signed oil by Léon Printemps of the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle pavilions, gilt frame
Leon Printemps (1871-1945), The Exposition Universelle in Paris, Signed Oil on Wood Panel, 1900, Framed

19th century

Sale price$1,900
Antique 19th century oil on canvas after Raphael, the Madonna and Child with Saint John, in period gilt frame
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, After Raphael Sanzio, 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed

19th century

Sale price$3,800
Signed 19th century French Impressionist painting of a woman knitting in a park, oil on canvas
Octave Guenard (1845-1934), Woman in a Park, Signed Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

Sale price$2,700
Camel in wedding trappings with a plumed litter in the desert, signed oil on canvas by Alfred Couverchel
Portrait of a Wedding Camel, Original Oil on Canvas by Alfred Couverchel, Signed, 19th Century

19th century

Sale price$12,000
19th century French oil study of a fire by the coast with ships, oil on canvas in gilt frame
Circle of Theodore Gudin (1802-1880), Fire by the Coast, Oil on Canvas Study, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

Sale price$5,600
19th century moonlit landscape with two windmills under a cloudy night sky, signed oil on canvas
Antique Oil Painting, Moonlight Mill Landscape, Late 19th Century French Impressionist Scene on Canvas, Framed Sale price$3,200
Signed and dated 1882 portrait of a puppy by Charles Chaplin, oil on bare mahogany panel in a carved gilt frame
Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891), Portrait of a Puppy, Signed and Dated 1882, Oil on Mahogany Panel, Framed

19th century

Sale price$3,800
Antique 17th century Flemish oil on panel, the Holy Family in a floral garland, in antique wood frame
Circle of Jan Peeter Brueghel, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with a Floral Garland, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Panel, Framed

17th century

Sale price$6,900
Unframed portrait of an older gentleman in a red coat with a white stock and lace jabot, wearing a powdered wig, turned slightly to the right against a dark brown ground, the canvas shown flat with its tacking edges visible
French School, Portrait of a Gentleman in a Red Coat, 18th Century Oil on Canvas, Unframed

18th century

Sale price$2,800
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
After Nicolas Poussin, Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well, Oil on Canvas, Late 18th to Early 19th Century, Unframed

19th century

Sale price$4,700
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Antique oil paintings for sale, from 16th century panels to 19th century canvases, in the supports the tradition actually used. The collection covers oil on canvas, oil on panel and the rarer oil on copper, with works signed by the painter's own hand and works that carry no signature at all. Sizes span the small cabinet picture and the large framed painting, some still in their period gilded frames.

Every painting ships free from France to the United States and Canada. New to collecting? Our guide How to Collect Antique Paintings explains how to read a canvas, a signature and an attribution before you buy.

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