Horizontal Antique Paintings

About this collection

A wide wall asks for a wide picture. Some rooms decide the shape of the painting before anything else, and a canvas that fights the proportions of the space never settles into it. Everything in this room is wider than it is tall.

Most are landscapes, which is what the horizontal format has always suited, from Barbizon river scenes to pastoral fields and coastal views. Old Master compositions complete the selection, all from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, and all framed.

For guidance on choosing a size for a mantel, see our guide to choosing a painting for above the fireplace.

John Lewis Shonborn, Signed Orientalist Oasis at Sunset, 19th Century Oil on Canvas in Gilded Frame

19th century

$3,900

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, Girl with Turkeys at the Edge of the Wood, Signed and Dated 1872, Oil on Canvas in a Carved Gilt Frame

19th century

$6,700

Full view of the framed canvas, blossoming tree and thatched farm with hens, in its carved gilt swept frame

Paul Emmanuel Péraire, Blossoming Tree and Farmyard, Signed Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

$3,700

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, Oxen and Sheep in a Sunlit Clearing, Signed Oil on Canvas, Period Gilt Frame

19th century

$3,700

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861-1911), Poppy Fields, Signed Oil on Canvas, Late 19th Century, Framed

19th century

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Antique French landscape with four large haystacks and a shepherd driving his flock, oil on canvas in a gilded frame

Shepherd and Flock among Haystacks, Signed Oil on Canvas by Gaston Guignard, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

$3,600

Italian School, 18th Century, Nymph and Satyr, Oil on Canvas, Framed

18th century

$2,900

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, 17th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed Old Master Painting

17th century

$5,300

Portrait of Two White Spitz Dogs, Unsigned Oil on Canvas, 19th Century French School, Framed

19th century

$2,700

Octave Guenard (1845-1934), Woman in a Park, Signed Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

$2,700

Circle of Theodore Gudin (1802-1880), Fire by the Coast, Oil on Canvas Study, 19th Century, Framed

19th century

$5,600

Signed still life of violets in a blue vase by Cherubini, 1931 oil on canvas, carved frame

Bouquet of Violets in a Blue Vase, Signed Oil on Canvas, Dated 1931, Framed

$2,700

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

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

$3,200

Antique Flemish oil on wood panel, the Fire of Sodom with Lot and his daughters, in period frame

The Fire of Sodom, Lot and His Daughters, Flemish Old Master Oil on Panel, Close to Gillis Mostaert, Framed

17th century

$8,700

Flemish School, Adoration of the Magi, 17th Century Old Master Oil Painting, Framed

17th century

$7,900

Horizontal antique landscape paintings for sale here run from Barbizon river scenes in their period gilded frames to pastoral fields and coastal views, several signed by listed painters of the nineteenth century, alongside Old Master compositions. Collectors searching for a large horizontal painting above a fireplace, a wide antique oil painting for a mantel, or a long picture above a sofa or a sideboard will find the proportion they need, since everything in this room is wider than it is tall.

Free shipping to the USA and Canada. For guidance on scale and hanging, see our How to Collect Antique Paintings guide.

Horizontal Antique Paintings

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