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Painted Cleopatra Melts a Pearl in a Cup of Vinegar 17th Century

1600s

Oil on Canvas. The woman depicted in the scene can be traced back to Portia, the Roman noblewoman who was the wife of Brutus and thus lived in the first century BCE: according to le...

Oil on canvas depicting a biblical scene from the First Book of Kings, showing King Solomon engaged in idolatry inside a temple. The sovereign, Surrounded by his numerous wives and ...

Oil on Canvas. 19th century Italian School. The myth of Procris and Cephalus is a famous and tragic story of love, jealousy, and betrayal told in Ovid's *Metamorphoses*. Cephalus, a...

Oil on Canvas. The painting offers a half-length portrait of a young man in deshabillé who is lighting his pipe by drawing fire with a stick from the candle placed in front of him o...

Antique Painting of 1600s Banquet with Figures Memento Mori after Giovanni Martinelli death comes to the banquet table-memento mori circa 1635. The oil on canvas painting (lined with...

An important Florentine painting from the mid-17th century. This oil-on-canvas painting, attributed to the great Italian painter Vincenzo Dandini (1609–1675), depicts a refined alleg...

Willem Muys was a Dutch, 18th-century painter of history pieces, portraits and cabinet pieces. Above all, he appears to have been active as a painter of ‘wallpaper’. Until the mid-18th century, ‘wallpaper’ was not painted on paper but on coarsely woven linen. Wealthy citizens had their mansions or country estates adorned with ‘wallpaper’ with landscapes, exotic birds or chinoiseries. Willem Muys mainly painted ‘wallpaper’, which means that few of his works have been preserved. They are hardly represented in public collections. The works of his sons, Nicolaas en Robbert, both painters, are a little less rare. The painting with Rebecca and Eliezer...

French school, 18th-19th century The soap bubbles Oil on panel, 44.5 x 36.5 cm Framed, 60 x 54 cm In this French school painting, with its leery and playful tone, but mother lovi...