Antique Paintings in Large Period Frames

About this collection

A large period frame is part of the work, not its packaging. Carved, gessoed and gilded, it was made to be read from across a room, and it tells as much about where a painting hung as the canvas tells about what was seen.

These frames measure at least thirty inches on their longest side. Some are contemporary with the paintings they hold, others were fitted later by a collector who thought the work deserved better. Gilding of this age carries its own wear, the red bole showing warm through the leaf along the ridges.

A frame of this size settles a stair wall where a smaller picture would disappear.

Seventeenth century French oil of Saint John the Baptist as a child holding the lamb and the reed cross, in a carved oval giltwood frame

Saint John the Baptist Embracing the Lamb, French School, 17th Century Oil on Canvas, Oval Carved Gilt Frame

17th century

$6,300

Antique French oil on wood panel, a gallant scene with Cupid in a formal garden, in moulded frame

17th Century French Oil on Panel, Gallant Scene in a Garden, Old Master Baroque Original, Framed

17th century

$4,800

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

Dutch School farmyard painting of a hen with her chicks and an earthenware pan, a windmill beyond a ruined wall, oil on canvas in a moulded frame

Dutch School, Hen and Chicks in a Farmyard with a Windmill, Oil on Canvas, Circa 1700, Framed

18th century

$6,700

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

Two Tigers in a Landscape, Oil on Canvas, French Romantic School, Mid-19th Century, Gilt Frame

19th century

$12,000

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

17th century

$5,300

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

$12,000

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

17th century

$4,300

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

Italian Old Master Oil Painting, Mary Magdalene Penitent, 17th Century Baroque Original on Canvas, Framed

17th century

$12,000

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

Antique Paintings in Large Period Frames

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