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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.

The young Saint John the Baptist seated with the lamb and the reed cross, French School oil on canvas
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)
The unframed panel on a small easel on a marquetry desk in a panelled study, next to bound books and brass candlesticks
Antique penitent Magdalene in a cave with an open book and a skull, oil in a moulded gilt frame
Antique 18th century Italian oil on canvas, a nymph pursued by a satyr, in carved gilt frame
Antique 18th century German oil on canvas, Hagar and Ishmael saved by the angel, unframed
Five putti making music in a landscape, Flemish School 17th century oil on panel in a gilded frame
Large antique 18th century French oil on canvas, Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, unframed
French School, 17th Century, Allegory of Winter, Oil on Wood Panel, Framed
Large antique 17th century Italian penitent Magdalene with a skull, oil on canvas in gilded frame
Antique Dutch School floral still life with a rose, morning glories and a butterfly, oil on canvas in a gilt frame
Antique 17th century Flemish Adoration of the Magi, oil on canvas in period gilt frame
Antique French oil on wood panel, a gallant scene with Cupid in a formal garden, in moulded frame
Antique 18th century French portrait of a gentleman with a lace jabot and a pink carnation, oil on canvas in a gilt frame
Ecce Homo after Correggio, Christ crowned with thorns in half length against an olive ground, oil on canvas in an antique ebonised frame
Full view of the framed canvas, blossoming tree and thatched farm with hens, in its carved gilt swept frame
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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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