{"title":"Vertical Antique Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVertical antique paintings are taller than they are wide, the shape European painters gave to a standing figure, a face, a saint or a bouquet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flight-egypt-holy-family-garland-flemish-brueghel-oil-panel","title":"Holy Family in a Flower Garland, Manner of Jan Brueghel the Younger, 1600s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlemish School, late 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rest on the Flight into Egypt in a Floral Garland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on oak panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eIn the manner of Jan Brueghel the Younger. Unsigned. 15 ½ x 10 inches (39.5 x 26 cm), the frame 19 x 13 ¾ inches (48 x 35 cm). Molded wood frame. Good original condition, with an old chip at the top of the panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly the oval has a sky. A garland of flowers is laid on a black ground and runs the full height of the panel, roses, a yellow lily, anemones, sunflowers and small blue blooms, each one painted separately and set against the dark. At the center, an oval opening shows the Holy Family halted on the road, the Virgin seated with the Child, Joseph standing behind her with his staff, a bright blue sky and a distant ridge behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe garland picture was invented in Antwerp in the early seventeenth century, a devotional image set inside a wreath of flowers. It was usually made by two men. A flower specialist painted the garland, a figure painter filled the opening, and the panel was sold as one picture. The division of labor is visible here in the handling, dry and worked in the flowers, thin and quick in the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214927405388,"sku":"850","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/garland-holy-family-flight-egypt-flemish-oak-panel-framed.png?v=1789305119"},{"product_id":"dutch-school-bouquet-flowers-butterfly-oil-canvas-18th-century","title":"Bouquet with a Butterfly, Dutch School Oil on Canvas, 1700s, Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDutch School, 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBouquet with a Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 14 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches (36 x 29 cm), the frame 18 ½ x 15 ¼ inches (47 x 39 cm). Gilt frame. Relined and stable, with fine craquelure and small losses in the dark ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe weave of the canvas reads through the petals of the rose. The paint is laid that thinly. The rose sits low in a short glass of water on a stone ledge and holds all the light in the picture, with two blue morning glories beside it, white narcissus above, a marigold at the right and a tall spike of white and pink flowers rising over the rest. Everything behind them goes to brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bouquet is lit from the left, and the water in the glass catches a thin line of the same light. A white butterfly with dark tips has settled on the ledge to the right of the glass, the palest note in the lower half.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eRose, morning glory, narcissus and marigold do not flower in the same weeks and could never have stood together in one glass. Painters of these pieces kept folders of single studies made across a whole year and built the bouquet from them, choosing each flower at its best. Nobody who bought one expected it to be a record of something seen. They were buying a year of a garden compressed into one glass of water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214933696844,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/dutch-school-bouquet-butterfly-oil-on-canvas-18th-century-framed.webp?v=1788981793"},{"product_id":"charles-suan-hunter-dog-portrait-french-romantic-oil-painting-1839-signed","title":"The Hunter and His Dog, Signed Oil on Canvas by Charles Suan, 1839, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Suan (French, 1810-1879)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hunter and His Dog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned and dated C. Suan 1839 lower right. 18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm), the frame 22 x 18 inches (56 x 46 cm). Period gilt frame with carved corner ornaments. Unlined, with old restorations in the sky and along the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dog looks up at the man. The man looks out at us, standing full length on a path in a dark buttoned shooting coat and gray trousers, the gun grounded at his right hand and his hat held low in the left, while the pointing dog sits at his feet in a dark liver and white coat. Behind them the ground falls away to a river valley with a distant town, under a bank of gray cloud that opens to blue above his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe autumn foliage on either side is worked in short dry touches, and a broken trunk closes the composition on the right. The face is finished with far more care than the trees behind it. The back shows the canvas still unlined, its stretcher braced across the corners and two old patches set into the weave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eShooting in France had passed out of the hands of the old landed order and become the sport of men who owned land because they had bought it. 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Carved giltwood frame. A restored vertical split, the paint surface stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe background is the bare mahogany of the panel, its red grain running up behind the dog. No ground was laid over it, and no paint goes where it was not needed. The puppy is seen close and cut at the chest, its head turned to us. The fawn coat is laid in with broad soft strokes, while the dark mask around the eyes and muzzle is worked in thin glazes and the ears fall soft against the head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe forelegs are barely indicated, so everything holds on the gaze. Beside the head the grain of the wood runs straight through the thin paint and out into the untouched panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe back of the panel carries a note in ink giving the animal a name, Souki, the family she belonged to, and a date in March 1964 when the picture passed from one hand to another. Eighty years after it was painted, somebody thought it worth writing down who the dog had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214935400780,"sku":"320","price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/chaplin-puppy-portrait-1882-oil-on-mahogany-panel-framed.png?v=1789074395"},{"product_id":"mary-magdalene-penitent-italian-old-master-baroque-oil-painting-framed","title":"Penitent Mary Magdalene, Italian School Oil on Canvas, 1600s, Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItalian School, 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePenitent Mary Magdalene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 28 x 24 inches (71 x 61 cm), the frame 33 x 29 inches (84 x 73.5 cm). Gilt frame. Relined and stable, with small losses along the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer eyes go down to the skull resting in her open hand at the lower edge. The other hand lies flat against her breast. Long red-gold hair falls in heavy waves over both shoulders, and a white chemise slips from the shoulder, caught by a rose drapery with a fold of deep red behind it. A mass of brown rock closes the left side of the canvas, while at the upper right the sky opens in cool blue and gray cloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe light falls from the upper left across the face, the shoulder and the hands, and leaves the rest in shadow. Under the skull the fingers are barely closed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57214938644812,"sku":"GC-RELI-17-001","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Italian_Old_Master_oil_painting_of_Mary_Magdalene_penitent_17th_century_Baroque_framed.png?v=1777653622"},{"product_id":"fortune-teller-portrait-oil-painting-18th-century-french","title":"The Fortune Teller and the Stolen Purse, French School Oil, 1700s, Unframed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fortune Teller and the Stolen Purse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 29 x 25 inches (74 x 64 cm), unframed. Small paint losses along the edges and an age craquelure, the surface otherwise stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe looks out at us, not at the woman who holds her hand. The older woman leans in from the right, wrapped in red and black, with only her face and hands showing. Below on the left a boy in a dark cap puts a finger to his lips and keeps a red purse low, under the edge of the gold dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seated woman wears pale gold silk, blue ribbons at her shoulders and breast, and a pleated lace ruff standing high behind her powdered hair. A column and an open sky stand behind the three figures. Two cypresses close the left side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe ruff, the slashed sleeves and the ribboned shoulders belong to the turn of the seventeenth century, not to the period of the picture. Dressing a sitter in old clothes was a recognized pleasure in eighteenth century French painting, and it placed a scene at a comfortable distance from the person looking at it. The face and the powdered hair were not disguised, and they are of their own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215052742988,"sku":"GC-SCEN-18-001","price":5785.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/fortune-teller-stolen-purse-18th-century-french-genre-unframed.png?v=1789080162"},{"product_id":"french-school-allegory-winter-oil-panel-17th-century","title":"French School, 17th Century, Allegory of Winter, Oil on Wood Panel, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAllegory of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on panel, painted on both sides\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 23 x 18 inches (58.5 x 45.5 cm), the frame 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm). Moulded wood frame, painted on the back. Vertical splits through the panel and scattered paint losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn upright post cuts the panel in two. On the left an old man in a red fur-trimmed cap and a long robe sits by an open fire with his hands held out to it, a leaded window behind him. On the right the ground falls away into snow under a pale sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe outdoor half is crowded with small figures at winter work. One climbs a ladder into a bare tree, another carries cut branches on his back, a man in yellow swings an axe at the foot of the slope, and his neighbor goes down on the frozen ground beside him. Higher up a figure stands over a small fire whose smoke curls away, and thatched houses close the top of the view. The only warm notes on that side are the reds of their caps and breeches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back of the panel is a second picture, a dark wooded landscape with a house and small figures, held in a frame painted to imitate grained wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe calendars of the labors of the months, carved on cathedral portals and painted in books of hours from the Middle Ages on, gave the cold months two stock scenes. A man warms himself at his hearth, and outside others cut and carry wood. Most calendars gave each scene its own month. 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Gilt oval frame. Old restorations and a small paint loss at the lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only color in the picture is in her hair. A spray of blue flowers is pinned at the side of her head, against dark hair parted in the center and drawn down over the ears, and the dress, the ground and the shadows around her are all black and brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe faces us almost straight on, a white lace collar at her neck. The face is modeled in warm flesh tones without flattery, the eyes level and the mouth closed. 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Good condition, small losses to the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree dark plumes stand up from the top of the litter. Below them the canopy is bound in crossing bands of red, green and cream, and a deep woolen fringe falls from it over both flanks of the animal in blue green, brick red and cream. The load takes up the whole upper half of the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe camel's head comes out low at the left, under the fringe, with a halter around the muzzle. Behind, low hills run across the canvas in olive and khaki, bare except for one green mass at the right, under a flat clear turquoise sky. 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Good condition, with an age craquelure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe order on his breast is the most carefully painted thing on the canvas after the face. It hangs at the left of the white coat, a cross with red enamel set in a dark surround, and a red tassel falls beside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is shown at bust length and turned three quarters, a light blue standing collar and a black stock at the neck, a red and silver band crossing the chest. Auburn curls are brushed forward over the brow. The blue eyes look past us. Behind him the ground is a flat olive green, with nothing in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eFor more than a century the white coat was the mark of the Austrian soldier. It was worn in the wars against Frederick the Great and again against Napoleon, and foreign armies knew the Austrians by it. In 1868, two years after the defeat at Königgrätz, the infantry changed to dark blue and the white went out of the line. 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Unlined and structurally sound, with age cracks across the surface and small paint losses along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is smiling. The lips stay closed, but the cheeks are lifted and the eyes narrowed, and he is turned three quarters toward us against a plain brown ground. The powdered wig is rolled at the sides and carried back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wears a dark blue-black coat with a standing collar over a pale waistcoat, and at the throat a white stock wound high with a lace jabot spilling over it. The jabot is set down in a few loose white strokes, the freest painting anywhere on the canvas, while the face is worked smooth and the cheeks carry most of the color in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215060377932,"sku":"300","price":3300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/portrait-gentleman-powdered-wig-french-school-18th-century-unframed.png?v=1789164969"},{"product_id":"charles-suan-gentleman-dog-landscape-french-romantic-oil-painting-1839-signed","title":"Gentleman with His Gun and Dog, Signed Oil by Charles Suan, 1839, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Suan (French, 1810-1879)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGentleman with His Gun and Dog in a Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned and dated 1839 lower right. 18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm), the frame 22 x 18 inches (56 x 46 cm). Period gilt frame with carved corner ornaments. Old restorations, small losses to the gilding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gun is doing nothing. Its stock rests on the ground against his leg and the barrel rises to his right hand, while he leans back on a mossy rock with his other hand on his hip and a pair of white gloves held in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wears a dark frock coat, a pale grey waistcoat buttoned high, fawn trousers and a black stock at the throat, and his top hat sits on the rock behind him. A white and liver pointing dog sits at his feet on the right and looks off out of the picture. Behind them the ground falls away to a plain with a glint of water, under a sky worked in heavy grey with one break of blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215062606156,"sku":"GC-SCEN-19-004","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/suan-gentleman-gun-dog-landscape-1839-signed-oil-gilt-frame.png?v=1789162464"},{"product_id":"portrait-lord-thomas-howard-after-van-dyck-dutch-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Earl of Arundel, After Anthony van Dyck, Oil on Panel, 1800s, Ripple Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter Anthony van Dyck, 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThomas Howard, Earl of Arundel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned, a handwritten page pasted on the back. 8 x 6 inches (20.5 x 15 cm), the frame 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Ebonised ripple frame. Small losses along the edges of the panel, the frame worn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBesides the face and the ruff, only two things catch the light. The gold pendant hangs between the fingers of one hand, a single raised touch of yellow and brown laid over the black of the cloak, and a folded sheet of paper rests in the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sitter is seated and turned slightly toward us, with a short beard, a stiff white ruff and a black cloak over a dark doublet. A blue ribbon runs from his neck to the pendant. At the left a scarlet chair back shows against a plain brown ground, and his sleeve ends in a white lace cuff above the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, built one of the first great art collections in England, paintings, drawings and ancient marbles that his grandson later gave to the University of Oxford. Van Dyck painted him around 1620, at the very start of his own career, seated in a scarlet chair with the gold badge of Saint George in his hand, the emblem of the Knights of the Garter. Two centuries on, the image was still being copied. On the back of this small copy someone pasted a handwritten page, a passage signed Mrs Jameson that calls Arundel the first virtuoso of his time, followed by a note on the Arundel marbles. The page is still there, creased and browned, behind the panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215063359820,"sku":"GC-PORT-19-001","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/earl-of-arundel-after-van-dyck-oil-panel-19th-century.png?v=1789593539"},{"product_id":"follower-louis-tocque-portrait-woman-rococo-oil-painting-framed","title":"Lady in Blue-Green Silk, Follower of Louis Tocqué, Oil on Canvas, 1700s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollower of Louis Tocqué (French, 1696-1772)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Lady in Blue-Green Silk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm), the frame 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm). Gilt wood frame with a dark liner. Relined, with small paint losses and old restorations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silk is painted with a freedom the face never gets. The gown is blue-green scattered with small flowers, open over a white stomacher with a pink rose pinned at the breast, and the sleeves finish in falls of lace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is turned three quarters against a plain brown ground, her powdered hair dressed high under a small lace cap tied with a white bow. A single string of pearls lies at the throat. One hand holds a closed fan against the skirt, and behind her left shoulder shows the studded red back of a chair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215069749580,"sku":"700","price":5700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/tocque-follower-portrait-lady-blue-green-silk-18th-century-framed.png?v=1789161521"},{"product_id":"madonna-child-after-raphael-sanzio-oil-canvas-19th-century","title":"Madonna and Child with St John, After Raphael, 1800s Oil on Canvas, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter Raphael, 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 18 x 12 ¾ inches (46 x 32 cm), the frame 23 ¾ x 18 ½ inches (60 x 47 cm). Gilt frame with applied floral corners. Relined, with small paint losses at the lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Virgin is not looking at the Child who is looking at her. Her eyes have dropped below his face, and the whole group turns on that half inch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe sits on a low rock in an open landscape, her blue mantle falling over a red bodice and gold sleeves, a white veil bound across her hair. The Child stands at her knee and reaches for her hand, and the young Saint John kneels at the right, half wrapped in a skin, holding his reed cross. Behind them lie a lake, a line of blue mountains and a small pink town on the far bank. The three faces are worked smooth to a finish, while the grass and the rock are laid in broadly, with a few plants at the foot drawn leaf by leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215072764236,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/belle-jardiniere-after-raphael-19th-century-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1789123456"},{"product_id":"habsburg-lady-tiara-portrait-austrian-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Lady with a Jeweled Tiara, Austrian School Oil on Canvas, Early 1800s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, early 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Lady with a Jeweled Tiara\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 23 cm). Carved giltwood frame. Fine age craquelure and a few small losses, the frame with an open joint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe head is turned to her left and the eyes come back to us. Short curls are brushed forward onto the forehead under a tiara of three graduated points, each set with small stones that catch the light in white flecks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wears a pale blue gown with a low square neck and gathered sleeves, a red shawl over one arm, and behind the neck a collar of white lace standing upright in a fan. She wears no order and no ribbon. The background is an even olive green, darker at the edges, with nothing in it at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThat upright fan of lace behind her neck is a chérusque. It was drawn up for the French imperial court in 1804 by the painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey, who borrowed it from the standing collars of the sixteenth century, and it was written into the rules of court dress. Ladies had to appear in a trained gown with a collar of lace fixed at both shoulders and rising high behind the head. It went out with the Empire and has not come back. She is wearing it here, each motif picked out in raised white over a fine grey line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215073583436,"sku":"420","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Early_19th_Century_French_Princess_Portrait_-_Oil_on_Canvas_in_Period_Frame_f53005c3-e0f8-4a5c-88bf-268b607c18ee.jpg?v=1776233702"},{"product_id":"louis-de-france-portrait-after-rigaud-french-school-18th-century","title":"Gentleman in a Red Coat, After Hyacinthe Rigaud, French Oil, 1700s, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter Hyacinthe Rigaud, French School, 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Gentleman in a Red Coat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 21 x 18 inches (53 x 46 cm), the frame 27 x 24 inches (69 x 61 cm). Carved gilt frame. Unlined, with flaking and small losses to the paint layer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wig is the largest thing in the picture. It falls in heavy curls well below the shoulders and fills a third of the canvas, around a face turned three quarters toward us against a plain brown ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is modeled smoothly, the light entering from the left across the forehead and the bridge of the nose. The red coat is laid in broadly, its folds carried in a few loaded strokes, and the lace cravat at the throat is drawn in short dry touches over the darker ground. Nothing in the picture identifies him, no armor, no order, no coat of arms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215075090764,"sku":"650","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/portrait-gentleman-red-coat-18th-century-french-carved-gilt-frame.png?v=1789299712"},{"product_id":"circle-van-diepenbeeck-mary-magdalene-repentant-oil-copper-17th-century","title":"Mary Magdalene Repentant, Circle of Abraham Van Diepenbeeck, 17th Century Flemish Oil on Copper, Period Ripple Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Magdalene is shown half length, her arms crossed over her breast and her eyes raised, her long red gold hair falling loose over her shoulders and covering the body. Behind her to the right stands a wooden cross bearing the INRI titulus, and at the lower edge a glass vessel catches the light, the ointment jar that identifies her. The ground opens into a bare landscape of rock and cloud, painted in soft browns and greys that hold the figure in the centre of the light. The copper support gives the flesh its enamelled smoothness and lets the modelling of the face and hands carry detail that no canvas of this size could hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting bears an attached monogram AD, and a cartouche on the reverse attributes the work to Abraham Van Diepenbeeck. An examination label from Cabinet Turquin, Paris, is attached to the reverse. The copper shows paint loss, light surface marks and small old restorations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame is a Flemish ripple moulding in ebonised wood, its surface cut in waves that catch the light across the whole width. Frames of this kind were made in Antwerp in the seventeenth century for exactly this class of small cabinet picture, and they are collected in their own right. It carries a plaque naming Van Diepenbeeck, an old attribution rather than a document of one, and a small gap at the upper left of the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbraham Van Diepenbeeck (1607-1675) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of stained glass, born in 's-Hertogenbosch. He trained in Antwerp and became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1636. He worked closely with Peter Paul Rubens and continued in the Antwerp tradition after Rubens died in 1640, producing religious paintings, mythological scenes and designs for prints and for church windows across the Southern Netherlands. His oil paintings on copper are noted for their refined handling and their attention to light on small scale figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/galerieclub.com\/blogs\/collecting-guides\/reading-attribution\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e→ What \"circle of\" claims, when an old frame plaque says otherwise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215076958540,"sku":"635","price":5600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Mary_Magdalene_Repentant_attributed_to_Van_Diepenbeeck_17th_century_oil_on_copper_framed_Flemish_painting.png?v=1778278968"},{"product_id":"flemish-school-putti-musicians-oil-panel-17th-century","title":"A Concert of Putti, Flemish School Oil on Panel, Late 17th Century","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlemish School, late 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Concert of Putti in a Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 ½ inches (23 x 16.5 cm), the frame 15 x 12 inches (38 x 30.5 cm). Gilt palmette frame with a beaded inner molding, in good original condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot one of the five children is looking at another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of them play. The boy at the right holds his oboe up and out, cheeks full, while the dark-haired child at the center plays a second one held straight down, its bell resting on the grass. Around them three others are busy with the music itself. One kneels at the left over an open part-book, one lies flat on his stomach at the right with another book under his elbow, and the blond child in the middle rises among them with a pink drapery across his lap and one hand lifted in the air. Behind the group a bank of broken rock rises into trees, and the sky beyond turns grey with cloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eFor most of the 17th century the double reed was the shawm, an outdoor instrument loud enough to lead a procession. Around the 1650s it was remade in France, in jointed sections and with a narrower bore, and the work is usually credited to the Hotteterre family of instrument makers. The new hautbois was quiet enough to sit indoors among strings. Within a few decades it had crossed the northern border. Here it is on a Flemish hillside, played by a child with full cheeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back of the panel was never thinned or cradled, and the marks of the plane still run with the grain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215082168652,"sku":"400","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/putti-concert-oil-on-panel-flemish-school-1600s-gilded-frame.png?v=1789668864"},{"product_id":"man-top-hat-portrait-oil-painting-19th-century-english","title":"Man in a Top Hat, English School Oil on Canvas, Early 1800s, Gilt Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish School, early 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Man in a Top Hat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 23 cm). Carved gilt frame. Good original condition, a fine age craquelure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man of middle years is seen at half length against a plain brown ground, turned slightly to his right, under a tall black hat with a flat brim. He wears a dark coat and a white stock wound high under the chin above a ruffled shirt front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is ruddy, the cheeks and nose carrying more red than the rest, and the eyes are set close and level. The hat above it is laid in flat black with almost no modeling, a single silhouette on a head worked in warm reds and pinks. One hand comes into the lower edge of the picture holding something the paint no longer describes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57215082430796,"sku":"330","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/english-school-man-top-hat-oil-on-canvas-19th-century-framed.png?v=1789075683"},{"product_id":"delahaye-pekingese-dog-portrait-oil-panel-19th-century","title":"Pekingese Named Kit, Signed Oil on Panel by Ernest Jean Delahaye, c. 1910","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErnest Jean Delahaye (French, 1855-1921)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Pekingese Named Kit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower right E J Delahaye, inscribed Kit upper left. 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25 cm), the frame 18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm). Oak frame with an embossed metal border. Good original condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is given the frontal attention of a human sitter. The dog sits square to us against a pale ground of soft greys and greens, and only the muzzle and the wide dark eyes are worked tightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe coat carries the rest of the picture, laid in with short curling strokes of russet, gold and cream that follow the fall of the mane over the shoulders and the plume of the tail carried to one side. The paint is thin, and the grain of the panel shows through in places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe Pekingese was kept at the Chinese imperial court until 1860, when British and French troops sacked the Summer Palace outside Peking and five of the dogs were carried back to Europe. One of them was presented to Queen Victoria. Half a century later the breed was still a rarity in the West. On this panel the dog has a name of its own, written in gold across the top corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222043861324,"sku":"300","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/pekingese-kit-delahaye-signed-oil-panel-1910-oak-frame.png?v=1789122238"},{"product_id":"woman-pearl-necklace-portrait-oil-painting-19th-century-french-realism","title":"Woman with a Pearl Necklace, French School Oil Portrait, circa 1840, Framed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, circa 1840\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Woman with a Pearl Necklace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48 cm), the frame 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm). Carved gilt frame with foliate corners. Unlined, with small scattered paint losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer hair is doing two things at once. It lies flat and parted at the middle of the head, then falls in tight ringlets on either side of the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is set against a plain dark ground with no furniture and no attribute, turned a little to her left and looking straight out. The dress is pale blue gauze over a lining, gathered in fine vertical pleats across the bodice and swelling into wide sleeves. A single strand of pearls sits high on the throat. The pink belt at the waist is the only warm color in the canvas, and it is placed at the very bottom edge of the composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eThe back of the canvas carries the stamp of a color merchant in Versailles, at an address on the rue Hoche. The street was first the rue Dauphine and was renamed after General Lazare Hoche, who was born in the town, so the canvas was prepared after the change of name. The hair and the sleeves on the front belong to the late 1830s, and the stamp and the fashion agree without either depending on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222049988940,"sku":"400","price":5600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/portrait-lady-pearl-necklace-french-school-1840-carved-gilt-frame.png?v=1789120946"},{"product_id":"habsburg-court-portrait-officer-white-uniform-18th-century","title":"Young Austrian Officer with the Golden Fleece, Oil on Canvas, Early 1800s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, early 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Officer with the Golden Fleece\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 ¾ inches (23 x 17 cm), the frame 11 ½ x 9 inches (29 x 23 cm). Wide gilt cove frame. Age craquelure, the paint layer stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRed curls, blue eyes and a white coat buttoned to the chin. Nothing else on the coat catches the eye but a single red ribbon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe young man is shown half length and turned to the left, his hair cut short and loosely curled over the forehead. He wears the white coat of the Austrian army with a blue collar, a black stock high around the neck and a small lace jabot below it. The ribbon hangs from a buttonhole on his chest and carries the badge of the Golden Fleece, and a gold sash shows at the waist against a dark green ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003ePhilip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, founded the Order of the Golden Fleece at Bruges in 1430, on the day of his wedding. Its badge was a golden ram hanging from flints and steels striking sparks, and its knights were kept to a very small number. When Burgundy passed to the Habsburgs by marriage the order passed with it, and after the Spanish branch of the family died out in 1700 it split in two, one order in Madrid and one in Vienna. On this plain white coat the ram hangs from a red ribbon, painted in a few touches of red and gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222052184396,"sku":"420","price":2700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/young-austrian-officer-portrait-white-uniform-golden-fleece-early-19th-century.jpg?v=1789602694"},{"product_id":"emperor-joseph-ii-habsburg-portrait-austrian-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Portrait of Emperor Joseph II, Austrian School Oil on Canvas, 19th Century","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of Emperor Joseph II\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20.5 cm). Plain gilt frame, the canvas unlined on its stretcher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe red of the collar is the loudest thing in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is shown at bust length, the head turned a little to the left, against a grey-olive ground that lightens around his head. The coat is a blue so dark it reads as black, with vermilion collar and lapels, a black stock and a white lace jabot at the throat. A pale blue and white sash crosses the chest. On the breast are pinned a cross and a silver star with a red center, the rays of the star laid in short strokes of white, and lower down a small red decoration hangs from a button. The forehead is high and bare, the grey hair brushed back and falling behind the ear, and the face is modeled in warm pinks around a pair of pale blue eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the back the canvas has never been lined, and it still sits on its stretcher with a single crossbar and a key at every corner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222055264588,"sku":"420","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/Portrait_of_Emperor_Joseph_II_in_white_uniform_19th_century_Austrian_oil_on_canvas_in_gilt_frame.png?v=1778754435"},{"product_id":"habsburg-family-portrait-austrian-royal-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Young Officer with the Sash and Star of an Order, Austrian School, 1800s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, early 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Officer with the Sash and Star of an Order\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20 cm). Moulded gilt frame. Stable, with a fine age craquelure, the frame open at one corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sash falls in pale blue moiré across a dark green coat, and the silver star beside it is picked out in small white touches. Above them is a very young face, blond and high-colored, the scarlet collar rising to the jaw in gold embroidery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wears a black silk stock and a scarlet epaulette with twisted bullion, and the sash runs from the right shoulder. The flesh is built in fine blended glazes with pearly lights on the brow and the bridge of the nose, and each eye carries a single point of white, while the star is laid on with a loaded brush and the moiré of the sash is rendered by pale vertical breaks in the blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222057361740,"sku":"420","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/antique-officer-portrait-blue-sash-oil-canvas-hero.png?v=1787568180"},{"product_id":"redoute-school-white-purple-rose-watercolor-vellum-french","title":"White and Purple Roses, French School Watercolor on Vellum, 1800s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, circa 1820-1840\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite and Purple Roses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatercolor and graphite on vellum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 10 ½ x 8 ½ inches (27 x 21.5 cm), the frame 16 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm). Gilt frame with a linen slip. Clean and evenly toned, light handling marks at the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two roses are given entirely different whites. The upper flower is carried in lilac and cool grey with a hot pink heart, the lower one in cream, straw and beige without a touch of pure white anywhere. Between them the leaves turn, showing blue-grey undersides against the green of their faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach thorn on the canes is placed singly, with its own shaded base and its point turned the way it grows, and the secondary veins of every leaf are followed one by one. A fine graphite line runs under the watercolor along the petal edges and the stems. The pigment sits on the surface of the vellum, which gives the flowers their chalky bloom and keeps the greens from sinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222057460044,"sku":"GC-STILL-19-001","price":5600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/antique-rose-watercolour-vellum-redoute-circle-hero.png?v=1787571634"},{"product_id":"mary-magdalene-vanitas-dutch-school-oil-panel-18thc","title":"Penitent Mary Magdalene with a Skull, Dutch School Oil on Panel, 1700s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDutch School, early 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Penitent Magdalene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on wood panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23 cm), the frame 18 x 16 inches (46 x 41 cm). Fluted gilt frame. Paint losses and a small split at the upper right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe open book is the brightest thing on the panel. Its pages catch more light than her face or the sky beyond the rock, and the rest of the picture sinks into brown around it. She sits half length at the mouth of a cave, her head propped on her right hand and her eyes turned up toward the light, her loose reddish fair hair falling over the shoulder and down the back of a white chemise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer other hand rests on a skull beside the book, the fingers spread over the crown. To the right the rock opens onto trees and a pale sky, painted thinly in green and blue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228413763916,"sku":"190","price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/magdalene-cave-book-skull-oil-panel-18th-century-framed.png?v=1788989601"},{"product_id":"emperor-francis-i-habsburg-portrait-austrian-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Habsburg Archduke in White Uniform with Orders, Austrian School, circa 1800","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, circa 1800\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of an Archduke in White Uniform with the Golden Fleece\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned, a later typewritten label on the backing. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20.5 cm). Worn gilt frame. Age craquelure, the paint layer stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe uniform is white and the face almost as pale, so all the color of the picture sits on his chest. A red sash, a red and gold badge on a ribbon, and a silver star set with green and red.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sitter is shown half length and turned three quarters to the left, his long face set under grey hair rolled at the sides and tied at the back with a black ribbon. He wears the white coat of the Austrian army with a high blue collar and silver buttons, a lace jabot at the throat and a waistcoat of blue and silver brocade. The Golden Fleece hangs from a red ribbon on his breast, its red flints under a small crown, and beside it he wears the breast star of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. A typewritten slip in French, taped to the backing long after the portrait was painted, names him as the Archduke Charles of Austria. Nothing on the painting itself confirms it or rules it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eOn 18 June 1757 an Austrian army beat Frederick the Great at Kolin, in Bohemia, and on the day of the victory Maria Theresa created a new military order. It rewarded officers for successful acts undertaken on their own initiative, deeds that an honorable officer might have left undone without reproach, and it looked at the record rather than at birth or rank. The wording later gave rise to a popular myth that the order went to officers who had disobeyed orders and won. In 1765 a breast star was added for holders of the Grand Cross, a faceted silver cross with a green wreath between its arms, and that is the star painted on this white coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228436734284,"sku":"420","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/habsburg-archduke-portrait-white-uniform-golden-fleece-circa-1800.jpg?v=1789596321"},{"product_id":"paul-audra-still-life-grapes-carafe-oil-canvas-framed","title":"Still Life with Grapes and a Carafe, Paul Audra, Signed Oil on Canvas","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Audra (French, 1869-1948)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eStill Life with Grapes and a Carafe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower right Paul Audra. 13 x 9 inches (33 x 23 cm), the frame 17 x 14 inches (43 x 36 cm). Later gilt frame with a lattice border. Unlined and stable, a small loss at the upper left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything in this canvas is turned. The grapes are wound in on themselves in dark red and blue, the carafe rises in loose vertical strokes of cream and gold, and a single round fruit at the center catches the light where the paint stands highest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe paint is thick and worked wet into wet. In the grapes the red and the blue never quite mix, so the mass reads as one weight of color with cooler notes surfacing through it. At the upper right the brush passed lightly and the weave shows. The carafe is the palest passage and the most loaded, its stopper a knot of blue green sitting well proud of the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228436898124,"sku":null,"price":2300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/audra-still-life-grapes-carafe-signed-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.png?v=1787519812"},{"product_id":"assumption-virgin-after-poussin-oil-canvas-1881","title":"The Assumption of the Virgin after Poussin, French Oil on Canvas, 1881","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 1881, after Nicolas Poussin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Assumption of the Virgin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned, dated 1881 in red lower left. 24 ½ x 17 inches (62 x 43 cm), the frame 28 ¾ x 20 ¾ inches (73 x 53 cm). Moulded gilt frame. Unlined, on its keyed stretcher, with small losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Virgin rises with her arms thrown open, carried by young angels whose draperies turn around her in a single upward movement. Below them the cloud breaks on a dark plain, and a walled town catches the last light on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe angels are painted as adolescents, fully draped in pale yellow, rose and deep green, and the whole upper half is carried on those colors alone. The ground below is kept low and dark, so the eye goes straight up. The handling is careful and even, laid in thin smooth layers, with the flesh built in warm glazes and the date set down in red where the plain meets the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228438896972,"sku":"355","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/assumption-virgin-after-poussin-1881-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.png?v=1787517613"},{"product_id":"saint-john-baptist-oil-painting-mignard-circle-baroque","title":"Saint John the Baptist with the Lamb, French School Oil on Canvas, 1600s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, circa 1670-1690\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaint John the Baptist as a Child with the Lamb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, oval\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 16 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm), the frame 21 ¼ x 18 inches (54 x 46 cm). Carved oval giltwood frame. Relined and stable, small losses at the top center, wear to the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lamb is painted with more care than the child. Its fleece is built in short white strokes over grey and its eye is drawn, while the boy's face is kept smooth and pearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe kneels with one arm around the lamb, a red drape falling from the shoulder across the hip, and holds upright a reed cross with its white banderole. These are the attributes of Saint John the Baptist. Behind him the ground is black, and only at the right does the picture open onto a blue distance with a mountain and a low horizon. The drape is laid in broad planes of a single red.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228458623308,"sku":"980","price":6300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/saint-john-baptist-child-lamb-french-school-17th-century-oval-gilt-frame.png?v=1787496238"},{"product_id":"german-school-portrait-man-lucas-cranach-old-master-oil-painting","title":"Portrait of a Man in a White Collar, German School Oil on Panel, 1600s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerman School, 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Man in a White Collar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 8 inches (23 x 20 cm), the frame 14 x 12 inches (36 x 30 cm). Deep gilt frame. Panel cradled and stable, small losses at two corners, an old split at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is lit and nothing else is. Head, collar, and then black, with the shoulders barely emerging from a ground that has gone almost opaque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is turned three quarters to the right, his brown hair falling straight to the jaw, a plain white linen collar lying flat over a dark coat. The face is modeled in close grey and pink glazes, and the lines of the brow and the fold of the jaw are drawn over them in a fine dark line. His blue eyes go past the viewer to the right, each with its point of light, and the mouth is set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eA cradle is a lattice glued to the back of a thin panel, fixed battens running with the grain and loose ones sliding across it, meant to hold the board flat while still letting it move. Restorers fitted them to many old panels from the eighteenth century onward. When the sliding battens jammed, the wood could no longer move and split instead, and conservators have since removed a great many cradles for that reason. Turn this one over and the cross battens still slide in their housings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228483035468,"sku":"635","price":8900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/german-school-17th-century-portrait-man-white-collar-oil-panel-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1787494282"},{"product_id":"habsburg-hussar-officer-portrait-austrian-oil-painting-19th-century","title":"Habsburg Hussar Officer in Blue, Austrian School Oil on Canvas, 1800s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAustrian School, early 19th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Hussar Officer in Blue Uniform\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm), the frame 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20 cm). Water gilt frame, worn. Unlined on its keyed stretcher, stable, fine age craquelure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack fur against pale blue cloth is the whole of a hussar's dress uniform, and here the pelisse is thrown back over the left shoulder to show both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young officer turns three quarters against a dark olive ground, red haired and lightly moustached. He wears the light blue dolman with its ranks of frogging, a gold laced red waistcoat beneath, and a broad watered sash across the chest, its colors now faded. On the left breast is the star of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, silver rays around a red medallion with the white patriarchal cross under a crown, and a jeweled badge hangs at the throat on a red ribbon. The painter worked at the scale of a miniaturist. Each curl of the hair is drawn separately, the lace at the cuff and the throat is the only raised paint on the canvas, and a shadow thrown behind the fur collar lifts the figure off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228495257932,"sku":"420","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/habsburg-hussar-officer-portrait-blue-dolman-19th-century-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1787480769"},{"product_id":"max-moreau-portrait-woman-necklace-belgian-oil-painting","title":"Young Woman with Pearls, Max Moreau, Signed Oval Oil on Canvas, 1925","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMax Moreau (Belgian, 1902-1992)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Woman with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, oval\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned and dated lower right Max Moreau 1925, in red. 26 x 20 inches (66 x 51 cm). Unframed. Good original condition, unlined, a stable craquelure in the thick paint of the gown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is smiling. The mouth turns up at one corner and the eyes go with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is turned three quarters to the right against a warm grey ground, her hair waved and cut short at the jaw, a single strand of small pearls at the throat, each pearl with its own point of light. The pink gown with its pale grey front is laid in broad wet strokes with the brush marks left standing, while the face is worked smooth and close. Behind her right shoulder a chair back is suggested in two broad passages, and nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eFrench color merchants sold stretchers and canvases in fixed numbered sizes, and each number came in three shapes, F for figure, P for paysage, the landscape, and M for marine, each a little narrower than the last. A portrait would normally be painted on an F. The oval stretcher behind this young woman is stamped 15 P, the landscape shape, 65 by 50 centimeters, and her portrait fills it to the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228504826188,"sku":"150","price":4700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/max-moreau-1925-portrait-young-woman-pearls-oval-unframed.png?v=1787435452"},{"product_id":"18th-century-french-school-christ-child-lamb-oil-canvas","title":"Saint John the Baptist as a Child, French School Oil on Canvas, 1700s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, circa 1720-1750\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaint John the Baptist as a Child with the Lamb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 15 x 12 inches (38 x 30 cm). Unframed. Relined and stable, an old repaint along the left side, age craquelure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe red drapery is the only saturated color in the picture. Everything else is held to browns, dull greens and the pale sky, and the lamb comes to the child across that single note, its head turned in against his cheek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe sits on a low rock, one leg drawn up and the other stretched out, holding a slender reed cross wound with a lettered scroll in his raised hand and a shallow bowl in the other, a flat orange halo behind his head. The reed cross, the bowl and the lamb identify the young Saint John the Baptist. The drapery is drawn rather than modeled. A flat brown red is laid first and the folds are traced over it in single strokes of bright vermilion, while the lamb beside it is built up in soft greys and whites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228508397900,"sku":"GC-RELI","price":3600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/saint-john-baptist-child-lamb-french-school-18th-century-full-view.png?v=1787431321"},{"product_id":"allegory-autumn-french-oil-panel-17th-century-young-woman-framed","title":"Allegory of Autumn, French School Oil on Panel, 1600s, Painted Frame","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAllegory of Autumn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on wood panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 23 x 18 inches (58.5 x 45.5 cm), the frame 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm). Painted wood frame. Panel sound in its bracing, lifting and small losses in the foliage at the right, a vertical split.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo blades in one picture. The sickle is still in her right hand, and a larger scythe blade lies on the ground at her feet beside the heaped fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young woman sits barefoot at the foot of a fruit tree, in a loose golden dress, her eyes lowered and a horn of plenty filled with fruit resting against her shoulder. The tree above her is hung with red fruit among dark leaves. To the left the ground opens onto a harvested field, and beyond it thatched farm buildings and a haystack stand among tall trees under a pale sky breaking gold low on the horizon. The figure and the fruit carry all the light of the panel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228513837388,"sku":"GC-SCEN-17-002","price":3920.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/french-school-allegory-autumn-oil-panel-17th-century-painted-frame.png?v=1787394932"},{"product_id":"ecce-homo-old-master-oil-painting-17th-century-italian-baroque-framed","title":"Ecce Homo after Correggio, Italian School Oil on Canvas, 1600s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItalian School, 17th century, after Correggio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEcce Homo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 17 x 13 inches (43 x 33 cm), the frame 21 x 17 inches (53 x 43 cm). Ebonized frame with a gilt sight edge. Relined and stable, the red of the blood strengthened by a later hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flesh is painted almost without a warm note. Cool greys and greenish whites build the face and the chest, the hair and beard are laid in as a single dark mass, and a rose robe falls from both shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChrist is shown half length against a grey green ground, the head inclined and turned, the crown of thorns pressed low on the brow with a pale leaf caught in its plaited branches. The eyes are half lowered under heavy lids and carry the only light in the head. Red drops run from under the thorns onto the brow, the cheek and the chest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228515279180,"sku":"GC-RELI-17-002","price":11000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/ecce-homo-after-correggio-17th-century-oil-canvas-ebonised-frame.jpg?v=1787386651"},{"product_id":"aubert-bouquet-roses-cherries-oil-canvas-early-20th-century","title":"Roses and Cherries on a Garden Table, M. François-Aubert, Signed Oil","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM. François-Aubert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoses and Cherries on a Garden Table\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower right M. FRANÇOIS-AUBERT in capitals. 21 ½ x 18 inches (55 x 46 cm), the frame 27 ¼ x 23 ¾ inches (69 x 60 cm). Wide gilt frame. Unlined, stable and free of losses, the tacking margin loose at the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe table is not white. Look at the cloth in the lower right and it is green, the same green as the hedge behind, reflected up into the folds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoses stand in a plain glass jar on a round table set out of doors, pink, cream and one full yellow head at the center, against a dense hedge of many greens. A shallow dish of cherries sits on the cloth in front with their stalks and leaves still attached, and a few have spilled beside it. The paint is thick in the flowers, each petal a separate loaded stroke, and thinner in the hedge, scrubbed in and left. The glass of the jar is given in three touches, a vertical highlight, a grey edge and the stems seen through it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228517409100,"sku":null,"price":1900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/francois-aubert-roses-cherries-garden-table-signed-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1787353388"},{"product_id":"corchon-y-diaque-woman-portrait-oil-painting-signed-1890-spanish","title":"Woman in a Wine-Red Silk Cap, Corchon y Diaque, Signed Oil on Panel","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorchon y Diaque (1853-1925)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman in a Wine-Red Silk Cap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on wood panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eInscribed and signed in ink upper right, a dedication to N. Borniche. 13 ¾ x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm), the frame 16 x 11 inches (41 x 28 cm). Carved giltwood frame. Good condition, a vertical line of loss through the cap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cap sits high on the head, its edge cutting straight across the hair, and it is the only color in the panel. Everything else is grey, black, or the flesh of a face turned down and away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is shown in three quarter profile, looking down and to her left, the coil of hair falling behind the neck to the shoulder. A frilled white front rises to the throat inside a black jacket, laid on in thick white that stands proud of the surface. The flesh is built in fine crossed strokes of a dry brush, the color of the cheek dropped in over them rather than blended, and the mouth is a single stroke of red. Only the silk and the white front carry any real body of paint. Elsewhere it is thin enough that the grain of the wood reads through the grey ground, and the dedication is written in ink across that grey, above the cap.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228519178572,"sku":"GC-PORT-19-001","price":5700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/diaque-portrait-woman-wine-red-silk-ribbon-oil-panel-carved-giltwood-frame.png?v=1787344271"},{"product_id":"jules-alexandre-grun-portrait-painters-son-french-impressionist-oil-painting","title":"Portrait in a Sailor Collar, Jules-Alexandre Grün, Signed Oil on Canvas","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJules-Alexandre Grün (French, 1868-1938)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait in a Sailor Collar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower left Grün, the studio sale stamp on the reverse. 19 x 16 inches (48 x 41 cm), the frame 23 x 20 inches (58 x 51 cm). Modern gilt and black frame with a name plate. Unlined, stable, light surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePale green is scrubbed around the head like a halo, the brush pushing the brown ground back until the sitter seems to stand in a patch of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young sitter is shown half length in a dark coat over a wide white sailor collar, a dark bow at the throat, and the collar is the one clean, sharp shape on the canvas. The hair is a single mass of brown laid over the green. The features are drawn in with a fine dark line over the flesh, the eyes set wide and level, while the coat and the ground are dragged and scrubbed in quick strokes, and a touch of orange at the right shoulder is the only warm note anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228520390988,"sku":"90","price":1900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/grun-jules-alexandre-portrait-painters-son-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.png?v=1787336890"},{"product_id":"lassalle-picking-roses-french-romantic-oil-painting-framed","title":"Young Woman Gathering Roses, Louis Lassalle, Signed Oil on Canvas","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouis Lassalle (French, 1810-1870)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eYoung Woman Gathering Roses in a Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower right L. Lassalle, a later lettered inscription below. 13 x 9 inches (33 x 23 cm), the frame 17 x 14 inches (43 x 36 cm). Carved gilt Rococo style frame. Good original condition, unlined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dress is the only lit thing in the picture. Pink silk catches the light from the left, and everything around it, the wall, the foliage, the second figure, goes to olive and brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young woman in a wide pink silk gown with lace at the elbows stands on a garden terrace, reaching to a rose bush at the left with a small bouquet in her other hand, roses in her powdered hair. Behind her at the right a young page in a brown coat, a red sash and a white turban holds out a basket of cut flowers, and a small dog runs at her hem. A stone urn stands at the left edge and a low wall and trees close the garden. The silk is built in three values of rose over a grey underlayer, the highlights dragged along the folds with a dry brush, while the face and hands are worked smooth and small.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228521210188,"sku":"GC-GENR-19-001","price":5785.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/louis-lassalle-young-woman-gathering-roses-signed-oil-canvas-rococo-gilt-frame.png?v=1787331256"},{"product_id":"early-19th-century-portrait-gentleman-manner-boilly-french-oil-painting","title":"Young Man in a High Stock, French School Oil on Canvas, circa 1815","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, circa 1810-1820\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Man in a High Stock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned, a period ink inscription on the reverse. 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm), the frame 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 cm). Original gilt bead frame. Unlined, open craquelure with lifting in the dark passages, small losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing below the collar catches the light except a single touch of orange, the stud at his shirt front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe sits a little off center, his shoulders turned to the left and his eyes brought back to the viewer, short whiskers down to the jaw and brown hair brushed forward over the temples. The collar points of his shirt stand up almost to his ears above a white stock tied close at the throat. The face is pink and smoothly painted, the coat buttoned high and laid in as one dark mass with a few buttons picked out in grey, and the plain ground behind him runs from dark grey to brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eIn the middle of the seventeenth century Croatian horsemen serving the French crown wore a knotted cloth around the neck, and Paris copied it. The French called the fashion à la croate, and the word became cravate. Over the next hundred and fifty years the cloth grew longer, stiffer and higher, until a young man of the 1810s wound it round his throat and tied it close under the chin, with his shirt collar pushed up to his cheeks. The soldier's scarf is still here, wound high under his jaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228521636172,"sku":"180","price":1900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/early-19th-century-french-portrait-gentleman-manner-boilly-oil-canvas-gilt-frame.jpg?v=1787325066"},{"product_id":"french-school-gentleman-red-coat-oil-canvas-18th-century","title":"Gentleman in a Red Coat, French School Oil on Canvas, 1700s, Unframed","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Gentleman in a Red Coat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 15 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches (40 x 30 cm). Unframed. Structurally sound on an old lining, age craquelure, fraying and small losses along the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lids are heavy and a second chin folds down onto the white stock. Fine lines run beneath both blue-grey eyes, and the cheeks carry a strong flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe head is set close and high against a dark brown ground, lit from the left. He wears a plain red coat open at the neck, a white stock tied high under the chin and a lace jabot spilling down the front, and his grey hair is brushed back from the forehead and rolled into curls over the ears. The face is built up in small, careful touches of pink and grey, while the lace is set down in a few quick, loaded strokes of white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eFor most of the eighteenth century a French gentleman's hair, or his wig, was dressed in rolled curls over the ears and dusted with powder. The Revolution changed that. In the early 1790s the actor François-Joseph Talma played the Roman Titus with his own hair cropped short and unpowdered, and fashionable young men in Paris began asking their barbers for a cut à la Titus. Within a few years the rolled curls looked like the old regime itself. Here they are still in place, brushed back over his ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228526289228,"sku":"260","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/french-school-gentleman-red-coat-portrait-oil-canvas-18th-century.jpg?v=1789516384"},{"product_id":"follower-louis-tocque-portrait-gentleman-rococo-oil-painting-framed","title":"Gentleman with a Carnation, Follower of Tocqué, French Oil, 1700s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, mid 18th century, follower of Louis Tocqué\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Gentleman with a Carnation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm), the frame 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm). Stepped gilt frame. Relined and stable, small losses and old restorations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything is brown, black and cream except one thing. The carnation sits at the center of the canvas, the only saturated color in the picture, and the eye finds it before it finds the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe turns three quarters to the left against a plain brown ground, his powdered wig rolled at the sides and tied at the nape. He wears a dark coat over a white stock, with a deep lace jabot at the throat and a lace ruffle falling over the wrist, and the pink carnation is pinned to the breast. The lace is suggested in a few loaded touches over the dark ground, while the face is worked smooth and slow in successive glazes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228526616908,"sku":"700","price":5800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/follower-tocque-gentleman-carnation-oil-on-canvas-18th-century-framed.png?v=1788996617"},{"product_id":"gallant-scene-garden-french-old-master-oil-panel-17th-century-framed","title":"Gallant Couple in a Garden with Cupid, French School Oil on Panel, 1600s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, late 17th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGallant Scene in a Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on wood panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned. 23 x 18 inches (58 x 46 cm), the frame 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm). Painted wood frame. Panel sound, the joint between the two boards open with paint loss along it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe garden is a plan seen from above. The parterre at the lower right is drawn in flat geometry, beds, gravel and a fountain, while the couple beside it are painted in full relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gentleman in a long grey coat and a full curled wig sits at the left, a folded paper in one hand, and holds out a red tulip toward a young woman in red. Her hair is dressed in tight curls at the temples with a ribbon, a string of pearls at her throat over a wide lace collar. A winged Cupid stands at their feet with a wreath and a basket of flowers. Behind them a brick tower rises against a pale sky, and the ground falls away to a wooded valley with a boat on the water and a distant range of hills.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228529107276,"sku":"GC-SCEN-17-003","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/17th_century_French_oil_on_panel_gallant_scene_in_a_garden_Old_Master_Baroque_painting_framed.png?v=1777657620"},{"product_id":"marcellin-desboutin-portrait-boy-french-impressionist-oil-painting","title":"Laughing Boy in a Working Shirt, Marcellin Desboutin, Signed Oil","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcellin Desboutin (French, 1823-1902)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaughing Boy in a Working Shirt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eSigned lower right M. Desboutin, in red. 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), the frame 13 x 11 inches (33 x 28 cm). Gilt cove frame. Good original condition, unlined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mouth is open. He is caught mid-word or mid-laugh, teeth showing, and the whole head is turned into the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe boy is shown half length against a grey green ground, his dark curly hair worked in loose masses that leave the weave showing through. He wears a loose white shirt with grey braces crossing the shoulders, laid in with a few broad strokes. The cheeks and the mouth carry the single warm note in the picture, laid on wet over the cooler flesh, and the eyes are set down in two dark strokes with no drawn outline anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GalerieClub Fine Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57228529336652,"sku":"110","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/4911\/3420\/files\/desboutin-laughing-boy-oil-on-canvas-19th-century-framed.png?v=1788993595"},{"product_id":"portrait-woman-hat-french-oil-painting-18th-century-realism","title":"Lady in a Lace Cap with Pink Ribbons, French School Oil on Canvas, 1700s","description":"\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench School, 18th century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Lady in a Lace Cap with Pink Ribbons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gc-notice\"\u003eUnsigned, a Paris colorman's stamp on the lining. 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm), the frame 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48 cm). Gilt frame with palmette corners. Relined and stable, small scattered losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same pink appears in four places. It is in the broad ribbon of the lace cap, in the rose pinned at her breast, in both cheeks and in the silk of the gown, and nowhere is it stronger than on the ribbon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe turns three quarters toward the viewer inside a painted oval, dark grey-green behind her and brownish red in the corners outside it. Her powdered hair is dressed high and rolled at the sides under a tall cap of pleated lace, its leafy sprigs picked out one by one in white. She wears a strand of pearls at the throat and a deep lace frill at the neckline, with a pink rose and two buds pinned where it opens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;margin:22px 0 4px;\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"background:#faf7f1;padding:20px 24px;border:none;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#96763f;margin:0 0 8px;\"\u003eNote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eShe was painted under the old monarchy, in a high lace cap of a kind that did not outlast the Revolution. About a century later her canvas passed through the house of Berville in Paris, a family firm that sold colors and canvas to painters and also cleaned, framed and sold old pictures. 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