Painting under glass is a difficult artistic technique that is executed directly on a sheet of glass.
The glass supports the paint like a canvas. Thus the glass serves both as a support and as a protective varnish. It is a “cold” painting technique so the process does not require baking.
Painted canvas “Game scene”
End of the 18th century.
France
Oil on canvas of a young English girl.
Portrait on landscape background.
English school
First part of the 19th century
Oil on canvas representing a young girl holding a bouquet of flowers.
Important frame in gilded wood.
France
Circa 1730
Oil on canvas representing the allegory of sight.
This painting is actually composed of two paintings attached and relined. Was it a diptych or a series of several paintings, two of which would have been joined together?
Oil on canvas depicting Sainte Barbara, on its original canvas, original gilded wooden frame.
XVII century,
Italy.
Oil on canvas, genre scene. It is probably about Suzanne Simonin, the narrator of Denis Diderot’s memoir “La Religieuse”, which is an ode to the freedom to choose one’s destiny…
18th century.
Italian school, entourage of Giuseppe Bonito.
Oil on canvas, family portrait.
In the middle of the 19th century, the bourgeoisie, actor and beneficiary of the industrial revolution, wanted to leave to posterity the image of its economic and social success. Failing to belong to a noble line, she celebrates the family, keystone of this new bourgeois model. The challenge is then to create an image for yourself at the same time as to build a genealogy, a historical legitimacy…
19th century,
France.
Oil on canvas, portrait of a gentleman,
Remarkable painting for lovers of old fabrics, and provocative looks, to look at it is to plunge into a world where everything is only “luxury, calm and pleasure”.
Circa 1700,
Italy
Oil on canvas “portrait of a woman with an ermine coat”,
Signed: Edward, dated: 1855