Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter Art

DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...

Antique Original Watercolour Painting Depicting a Classical Scene A woman is seated in an Arcadian landscape and is being atten...

A French framed oil on panel still-life painting from the late 19th century depicting pansies, in giltwood frame. Created in France during the later years of the 19th century, this o...

Small late 19th century silk painting depicting boy and rabbit in oval frame Picture of a young boy with a rabbit and leafy vegetables painted on silk. Bowed glass has chip on edge. Gilt brass easel frame...

An Italian oil on canvas still-life painting from the 19th century in carved giltwood frame, signed Florentine. Created in Italy during the 19th century, this still-life painting dep...

Late 19th Century Oil Painting Depicting Fox Hunt by George Earl. Lovely painting with regal man on horseback in his red hunt coat with...

Titan Fine Art present this picture which formed part of a historic collection of an English aristocratic family, Lord and Lady Sandys at their magnificent baroque and Regency Grade-...

Sunny face. Bilateral. Cardboard, tempera, 53x35.5 cm Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family. Vladimir Glushenkov...

Titan Fine Art present this picture which formed part of a historic collection of an English aristocratic family, Lord and Lady Sandys at their magnificent baroque and Regency Grade-...

19th-Century Framed Oil Painting on Hardboard Depicting Genre Scene We present you a small painting from the late 19th century depicting a genre scene. The oil is on hardboard, the ...

19th Century Framed Oil on Canvas Painting Depicting Hound Dogs on the Scent. England, 1801-1900. Measures: 25" H, 33" W, 1" D. Purchased from a local Middleburg, Virginia estate.

In 2001 the German art historian Art historian and Raphael Expert, Prof. Jürg Meyer zur Capellen, published the painting "Die Heilige Familie" in a monographic article, ascribing the present work to the Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687 -Venice - 1767). (Newspaper "Weltkunst", October 2001, No 12, p. 1850 f. ill.) He describes it as a typical work by this artist. Pittoni was one of the most influential and successful artists of the Venetian Settecento. He was a pupil of the Veronese Master Giovanni Balestra (1666-1740). His style is influenced by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) and Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Giovanni Battista Pittoni was already successful at a young age and soon lead his own workshop. He created large-scale hitoria paintings, as well as large, religious altarpieces. In addition to Venetian and Upper Italian patrons, Pittoni also had many interested parties from Europe. His work is accordingly scattered in many different museums and private collections today. Pittoni - like other painter colleagues of his time - repeated his own compositions both by hand and with the help of his workshop. He repeatedly incorporated details into other pictures and contexts. Prof. Meyer zur Capellen noted the very good condition of the present work and the high quality of the paint with fine graduations and the vivid brushstrokes. Provenance: The panting has not been on the art market for at least 300 years. In the year 2000 the work was donated by the Münster-based, Noble Family Ketteler zu Harkotten to a private collection in Westphalia. Most probably the canon Nikolaus Hermann von Ketteler zu Harkotten bought the piece in Venice in 1750 together with the altarpiece of the Clemens Church in Münster. On the reverse of the work is a fideicommissum number by Ketteler zu Harkotten. As it belonged to the family commission, the painting was inalienable until 1919, when the corresponding law was repealed, and after that time it remained in the family's possession without interruption. Pittoni's only direct relationship to Münster is the commission for the high altar painting of the Baroque St. Clemens Church. It can be assumed that then canon von Ketteler saw this painting in the artist's workshop during his stay in Venice and acquired it for himself. This would also explain the discrepancy in dating. (ca. 1735/1750). However, it is also possible that the painting originated in the possession of Ferdinand von Plettenberg...