Antique French Paintings

About this collection

French painting runs from the Baroque of the seventeenth century and the court portraits of the eighteenth to the Barbizon landscape, Impressionism, and the modern schools of the twentieth.

Every antique French oil painting here was bought in France and ships direct from our gallery, four centuries of it, many signed and still in their period frames. To place them in their traditions, read our guides to Barbizon School and Impressionism.

The Fortune Teller and the Stolen Purse, French Genre Scene, Oil on Canvas, 18th Century, Unframed

18th century

$5,785

Signed oil study by Marcellin Desboutin of a laughing boy in a working shirt, in a gilt wood frame

Marcellin Desboutin, Laughing Boy in a Working Shirt, Signed Oil on Canvas, Late 19th Century, Gilt Frame

19th century

$4,900

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)

The Assumption of the Virgin After Nicolas Poussin, Dated 1881, French School Oil on Canvas, Framed

19th century

$3,500

19th Century French Realist Oil Portrait of a Woman with a Pearl Necklace, Framed, Oil on Canvas

19th century

$5,600

Portrait of a Woman with Blue Flowers in Her Hair, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century French School, Gilt Oval Frame

19th century

$2,730

Antique Oil Painting, Moonlight Mill Landscape, Late 19th Century French Impressionist Scene on Canvas, Framed

$3,200

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, Allegory of Autumn, Oil on Wood Panel, 17th Century, in its Painted Frame

17th century

$3,920

The young Saint John the Baptist seated with the lamb and the reed cross, French School oil on canvas

Saint John the Baptist as a Child with the Lamb, Oil on Canvas, 18th Century French School, Unframed

18th century

$3,600

Antique French Barbizon landscape with haystacks signed and dated 1882, oil on wood panel in a gilded carved frame

Haystacks Landscape, Signed and Dated 1882, French Barbizon School Oil on Wood Panel, Gilded Frame

19th century

$2,600

French School, 17th Century, Allegory of Winter, Oil on Wood Panel, Framed

17th century

$4,300

Signed Barbizon river landscape by Edmond Renault with women and child on a path, ornate gilt frame

French Barbizon School Oil Painting, Women by the River in an Animated Landscape, 19th Century Signed on Canvas, Ornate Gilt Frame

$3,600

Antique French Paintings

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