Oil on canvas «Portrait of a canoness Saint-Augustin», paper mâché frame.
«Canon» is a name given mainly to nuns.
18th century,
Germany
Oil on canvas depicting Diane and her suite.
Diana is originally a Latin goddess with power over procreation, childbirth, hunting and sovereignty. She quickly became the goddess of hunting and moon in Roman mythology.
Italy
XVII century
«Portrait of a diamond woman», XVIII s.
Oil on canvas depicting a woman dressed in the hurluberlu at the Anne-Marie d’Orléans (sister of Philip II of Orleans the Regent) decorated with pearls and holding a diamond.
Is the woman in our portrait the Regent’s favorite or perhaps the very personification of the Regency time.
Height with frame: 99 cm
Width with frame: 79 cm
France
Period: XVIII century, Regency
Court portrait of a child accompanied by a dog.
The portrait of a child became more popular in the second part of the 18th centuries; in the 17th centuries it was still reserved for princes of blood.
“Madonna and Child”, fixed under glass, original carved and gilded wooden frame.
19th century
Italy
Madonna and Child after Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625).
Signed by Marco Calderini, and dated 1871.
Gouache on vellum representing the Madonna embracing the Child. This work is a replica of Raphael’s famous masterpiece.
Framed under bevelled glass, decorated with a Rhine stone.
French school
18th century
Miniature on ivory “Portrait of a veiled young woman” mounted in brooch, vermeille frame, bevelled glass protection,
signed Jean-Urbin Guérin, French draftsman and miniature painter (1760-1836).
Early 19th century
France
“Mother and daughter”, oval miniature painted in gouache on ivory in an oval hoop to hang in gilded bronze.
Around 1780
“Portrait of the Doctor”, oil on canvas, probably representing Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) Swiss physician, scientist, naturalist, thinker and literary critic. The doctor holds a jar containing a fetus. On the jar we can read the Latin formula “Disce Me Noscere”: get to know me.
Attributed to Donatien Nonotte
18th century