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Vertical Antique Paintings

About this collection

Vertical antique paintings are taller than they are wide, the shape European painters gave to a standing figure, a face, a saint or a bouquet.

Many of them are portraits. The others are religious scenes, still lifes, flowers and animals, painted between the 17th and the 19th century, some of them signed.

-10%Antique portrait of a lady with a pink ribbon hat, 18th century French oil on canvas, gilt frame

French School, 18th century

Lady in a Lace Cap
$4,900$4,400
Jules-Alexandre Grün portrait of a young sitter in a wide white collar, signed oil on canvas in a gilt frame with black frieze

Jules-Alexandre Grün (1868-1938)

Portrait in a Sailor Collar
$1,900Signed
M. François-Aubert still life of roses in a glass jar and cherries on a garden table, signed oil on canvas in a wide gilt frame

M. François-Aubert

Roses and Cherries
$1,900Signed
Signed oval portrait of a young woman in a rose gown with a short strand of pearls, dated 1925, unframed oil on canvas by Max Moreau

Max Moreau (1902-1992)

Young Woman with Pearls
$4,700Signed

Guides · before you buy

Collecting 18th-Century French PortraitsEveryone who mattered in eighteenth-century France needed to be painted, and the great portraitists ran workshops to meet the demand.Read the guideWhat a Genre Scene Was Really SayingBefore 1800 the everyday was a vehicle.Read the guide
Still life with a tall carafe and a mass of dark grapes painted in thick impasto, in a lattice-carved gilt frame (Paul Audra)

Paul Audra (1869-1948)

Grapes and a Carafe
$2,300Signed
Portrait of a Pekingese named Kit, signed oil on panel by Ernest Jean Delahaye, circa 1910, in an oak frame

Ernest Jean Delahaye (1855-1921)

Pekingese Named Kit, c. 1910
$2,900Signed
SoldAntique 17th century Flemish oil on copper, the penitent Mary Magdalene, in ripple moulded frame

Flemish School, 17th century

Penitent Magdalene, 1600sSold
Signed oil study by Marcellin Desboutin of a laughing boy in a working shirt, in a gilt wood frame

Marcellin Desboutin (1823-1902)

Laughing Boy
$4,900Signed
Antique French oil on wood panel, a gallant scene with Cupid in a formal garden, in moulded frame

French School, late 17th century

Gallant Couple in a Garden
$4,800
Antique 18th century French portrait of a gentleman with a lace jabot and a pink carnation, oil on canvas in a gilt frame

French School, mid 18th century

Gentleman with a Carnation
$5,800
Portrait of a gentleman in a red coat with a white stock and lace jabot, oil on canvas, 18th century French school, unframed

French School, 18th century

Gentleman in a Red Coat, 1700s
$2,800
Young man in a dark coat and high white cravat against a grey ground, small early nineteenth century French oil portrait in its original gilt bead frame

French School, early 19th century

Young Man in a High Stock
$1,900
A young woman in a pink silk gown reaching to a rose on a garden terrace, a servant with a basket of flowers at the right and a spaniel at her feet, in a carved gilt frame

Louis Lassalle (1810-1870)

Young Woman Gathering Roses
$5,785Signed
Corchon y Diaque portrait of a woman with a wine-red silk ribbon in her hair, oil on panel in a carved giltwood frame with water leaf ornament

Corchon y Diaque (1853-1925)

Woman in a Wine-Red Silk Cap
$5,700Signed
Ecce Homo after Correggio, Christ crowned with thorns in half length against an olive ground, oil on canvas in an antique ebonised frame

Italian School, 17th century

Ecce Homo, 1600s
$11,000
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, 17th century

Allegory of Autumn, 1600s
$3,920
The young Saint John the Baptist seated with the lamb and the reed cross, French School oil on canvas

French School, 18th century

Young Saint John, 1700s
$3,600
Portrait of a hussar officer in pale blue dolman with black fur pelisse and a silver breast star, early 19th century Austrian oil on canvas in a period gilt frame

Austrian School, early 19th century

Hussar Officer in Blue, 1800s
$2,900
Seventeenth century German School portrait of a man in a plain white linen collar against a black ground, oil on panel in a deep gilt frame

German School, 17th century

Man in a White Collar, 1600s
$8,900
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

French School, 17th century

Saint John with the Lamb, 1600s
$6,300
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)

French School, 19th century

Assumption of the Virgin, 1881
$3,500
Portrait of a Habsburg archduke in the white uniform of the Austrian army with the Golden Fleece and the Maria Theresa star, Austrian school circa 1800, in a gilt frame

Austrian School, circa 1800

Archduke in White Uniform
$3,200
Antique penitent Magdalene in a cave with an open book and a skull, oil in a moulded gilt frame

Dutch School, early 18th century

Penitent Magdalene, 1700s
$3,800
Two roses in lilac and cream on vellum, a 19th century French botanical study in a moulded gilt frame

French School, 19th century

White and Purple Roses, 1800s
$5,600

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Vertical antique paintings for sale at GalerieClub

Height gives a painting a different job from width. The vertical antique paintings in this collection were painted more than a century ago, in oil on canvas and on panel with the odd watercolour, and they range from small cabinet pictures to canvases in large period frames.

  • Saints, the Madonna and Child and the penitent Magdalene are usually shown standing or in half length, and a vertical religious painting follows the figure. Some are period copies after the Old Masters, and their titles say so.

  • A bouquet grows upward from its vase, and tall flower paintings grow with it, in oil on canvas, on panel and now and then in watercolour.

  • A tall picture fills the walls a wide one cannot use, between two windows, beside a door or along a staircase. Measure the wall rather than the canvas, since a period frame adds width on every side.