It depicts a pastoral scene with a couple accompanied by a dog at their feet, a symbol of fidelity, and a cage with a bird, evoking the confinement of emotions. On the other side, a shepherdess embodies freedom and lightness, creating a poetic and refined contrast typical of the art of this period.
Oil on canvas depicting a double portrait of women, probably a study. The two people depicted in double portraits are usually related to the same couple, the same family, or a shared friendship.
German school
Circa 1780
Rare and precious 18th-century piece is a mirror fixed under glass depicting the Virgin Mary.
France, 18th century
Oil on canvas representing a mastiff and its puppies in an outbuilding, after the original by Christophe Huet (1700-1759) found in the private collection of Count Alarico Palmieri.
19th century
England
Oil painting on copper “Portrait of a woman with a blue bow”.
18th century
France
Set of three oils on canvas representing allegories of Reason, Fidelity and Glory, original polychrome carved wooden frames.
Italy
Early 18th 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
“Mother and daughter”, oval miniature painted in gouache on ivory in an oval hoop to hang in gilded bronze.
Around 1780
PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF JEAN-JOSEPH SUE (1710-1792), unsigned oil on canvas
Circa 1753
French school
Large oil on canvas representing a little girl in a white dress, holding to a olive tree branch, with at her feet an alphabet open book.
Gilted wooden frame.
19th century
France