Antique Religious Paintings

About this collection

Religious painting is the depiction of sacred and biblical subjects, the central tradition of European Old Master art from the Flemish and Italian Baroque to the nineteenth century.

Our religious works range from penitent Magdalenes and devotional scenes to dramatic biblical narratives, painted in oil on canvas, on wood panel and on copper, many of them seventeenth and eighteenth century works presented in period frames. A sacred scene of this age brings depth and gravity to a study, a hallway or a quiet corner of the home. Every painting ships free from France to the USA and Canada. To read the iconography of a sacred scene, see our guide to Judith and Holofernes in Painting.

Antique penitent Magdalene in a cave with an open book and a skull, oil in a moulded gilt frame

18th Century Dutch School Oil on Wood Panel, Penitent Mary Magdalene with Vanitas, Wide Gilt Frame

18th century

$3,800

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

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

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

$6,900

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

17th century

$5,300

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, Oil on Oak Panel, 17th Century, Panel Maker's Mark, Gilt Frame

17th century

$5,800

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

$4,700

Ecce Homo after Correggio, Christ crowned with thorns in half length against an olive ground, oil on canvas in an antique ebonised frame

Ecce Homo, 17th Century Old Master Oil on Canvas after Correggio, Italian Baroque, Framed

17th century

$11,000

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Mary Magdalene Repentant, Circle of Abraham Van Diepenbeeck, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Copper, Period Ripple Frame

17th century

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18th Century French Old Master Oil Painting, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, Unframed

18th century

$4,830

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

Circle of Januarius Zick (1730-1797), Hagar and Ishmael Saved by the Angel, 18th Century German Oil on Canvas, Unframed

18th century

$5,800

Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, After Raphael Sanzio, 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed

19th century

$3,800

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

From the penitent Mary Magdalene and the Madonna to Christ and the Samaritan woman, the fire of Sodom and the great narratives of the Old Testament, the religious paintings gathered here cover the central subjects of European sacred art. Collectors will find Old Master period copies after Poussin and Correggio, Flemish oils on panel and on copper, and honest works of the French and Italian schools. Each work is an original oil painting, photographed in our gallery and described from the work in hand.

Every painting ships free from France to the USA and Canada. To choose with a collector's eye, start with our guide to How to Collect Antique Paintings.

Antique Religious Paintings

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