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Old Masters Portrait Prints

OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Style: Old Masters
AMERICAN REVOLUTION - THE ABLE DOCTOR IN AMERICA SWALLOWING THE BITTER DRAUGHT
AMERICAN REVOLUTION - THE ABLE DOCTOR IN AMERICA SWALLOWING THE BITTER DRAUGHT

AMERICAN REVOLUTION - THE ABLE DOCTOR IN AMERICA SWALLOWING THE BITTER DRAUGHT

Located in Santa Monica, CA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE ABLE DOCTOR IN AMERICA SWALLOWING THE BITTER DRAUGHT, 1774 (LC Cresswell 664). Engraving and etching. Originally from "The London Magazine", April 1774. Pl...

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1770s Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving

Entombment; Plate 2 from The Passion of the Christ
Entombment; Plate 2 from The Passion of the Christ

Entombment; Plate 2 from The Passion of the Christ

By Hendrick Goltzius

Located in Middletown, NY

Celebrated for the "sfumato" effect that Goltzius achieved through engraving alone, the incredibly fine lines in this work create the illusion of soft, glowing light and atmospheric ...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving, Laid Paper

De wapenhandelinghe van de ruiters; Plate 10 from The Riding School, or Exercise
De wapenhandelinghe van de ruiters; Plate 10 from The Riding School, or Exercise

De wapenhandelinghe van de ruiters; Plate 10 from The Riding School, or Exercise

By Jacob de Gheyn II

Located in Middletown, NY

A 16th century image from the state-sponsored military manual that revolutionized European warfare tactics. Leiden: 1599. Engraving on laid paper with a partial chalice and grapes ...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Set of Eight Period Japanese Colored Woodblock Print
Set of Eight Period Japanese Colored Woodblock Print

Set of Eight Period Japanese Colored Woodblock Print

By Utagawa Toyokuni

Located in Roma, IT

Important series of eight colorful Japanese woodblock prints featuring iconic scenes of Japanese life. They are the work of great artists including: Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: ?; 1769 in Edo – 24 February 1825 in Edo) This series of woodblock prints, never before on the market, comes from a private collection. Utagawa Toyokuni[a] (歌川 豊国; 1769 – 24 February 1825), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who elevated it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century. He was born, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets...

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Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise
Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spiessen; Plate 4 from The Exercise

By Jacob de Gheyn II

Located in Middletown, NY

An image from a 17th-century military drill manual depicting techniques for handling muskets and pikes. De Ghen II, Jacques / Jacob Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musquetten ende Spies...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg

Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg

By Jacques Callot

Located in Chicago, IL

Watermark: Lion and Star (Lieure 38) References: Lieure No. 505 Notes: An early impression of the only state of this major work. According to Lieure (Jacques Callot: Catalogue de l...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Etching

Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle
Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle

Tolosa (Toulouse); Leaf LXXI from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle

Located in Middletown, NY

Woodcut on laid paper, 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (212 x 233 mm), the full sheet. In excellent condition with text and portraits of Empedocles, Sapho, Zeuxis and others on the verso, as is...

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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut

Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand
Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand

Sleeping Herdsman by Charles Amand-Durand

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Middletown, NY

A an impression after Rembrandt's only state of this image. Paris: 1644. Etching and engraving on high quality buff wove paper 4 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (124 x 114 mm); sheet 12 5/8 x 1...

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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving

Aegidius Sadeler II Engraving "Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, Roman Emperor"
Aegidius Sadeler II Engraving "Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, Roman Emperor"

Aegidius Sadeler II Engraving "Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, Roman Emperor"

By Aegidius Sadeler II

Located in New York, NY

Artist: Aegidius Sadeler II Petronia, First Wife of Vitellius, from set of Roman Emperors and Empresses, c. 16th-17th century Engraving Publisher: Marcus Christoph Sadeler Sight: 15 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 in. This image was conceived in the 16th century by Aegidius Sadeler II and published by Marcus Christoph Sadeler. It is unclear when the present version was executed. Aegidius Sadeler or Aegidius Sadeler II[1] (1570–1629) was a Flemish engraver who was principally active at the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and his successors. Sadeler was born in Antwerp in the Sadeler family of print dealers and engravers. He was the son of Emmanuel de Sayeleer and the nephew of Aegidius I, Jan I en Raphael Sadeler.[2] He was trained by his uncle Jan I and became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1589. He was active in Munich the next year in 1590, in Rome in 1593, in Naples and then again in Munich in 1594–1597. From 1597 he settled in Prague where he became court engraver for Rudolf II and made engraved portraits of notables and engravings after artworks there, most notably paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Hans von Aachen, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and sculptures by Giambologna and Adriaen de Vries. His early engravings were mostly faithful copies of works by Albrecht Dürer in the Imperial collection and copies of paintings by notable Italian painters such as Raphael, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Barocci and Titian or by Northern painters who worked there, such as Paul Bril and Denys Calvaert. In Prague he also engraved portraits of the notables of Rudolf's court, and collaborated with Spranger, Joseph Heintz the Elder, Jacobus Typotius and his friend Anselmus Boece de Boodt (1550-1632), Rudolf II's gemologist and physician.[3] After Rudolf II died he enjoyed the favour and protection of the two succeeding Emperors, Matthias and Ferdinand II.[4][5] According to Michael Bryan...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed
1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed

By Timothy Cole

Located in Soquel, CA

1910 Master Wood Engraving after Rembrandt with Cap, Signed Beautifully rendered print after Rembrandt by master engraver Timothy Cole (British/American b. 1852 d. 1931.) Rembrandt ...

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1910s Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Ink, Tissue Paper, Pencil, Engraving

Portrait of an infamous thief

Portrait of an infamous thief

By Abraham Bosse

Located in Middletown, NY

A fascinating image of a well-known theif robbing a merchant of goods held atop her head. Paris: circa 1670. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (17...

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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

18th C. Portrait of Edward Stanley from Henry VIII's Court after Holbein Drawing
18th C. Portrait of Edward Stanley from Henry VIII's Court after Holbein Drawing

18th C. Portrait of Edward Stanley from Henry VIII's Court after Holbein Drawing

By Hans Holbein

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an 18th century engraved portrait of "Edward Stanley" created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815), after a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497- 1543) in the 16th century. Holbein was the official artist in the court of King Henry VIII. Bartolozzi used both etching and stipple engraving techniques to create the work which was published by John Chamberlaine in London in 1793 in "The Book of Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty". Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby...

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Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving, Etching

At Prime (Igba Ara) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Linocut
At Prime (Igba Ara) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Linocut

At Prime (Igba Ara) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa, Linocut

By Tosin Oyeniyi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...

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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Canvas, Linocut

Bearded man in turban and fur
Bearded man in turban and fur

Bearded man in turban and fur

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (120 x 95 mm), wide margins. Scattered light surface soiling, unevenly trimmed wide margins, all consistent with age. Likely printed...

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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Etching

Beggar man and woman coming from behind a bank – after Rembrandt van Rijn
Beggar man and woman coming from behind a bank – after Rembrandt van Rijn

Beggar man and woman coming from behind a bank – after Rembrandt van Rijn

By Charles Amand Durand

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on cream laid paper laid down to a wove paper support, 4 x 2 5/8 inches (101 x 67 mm) (sheet). In good condition with scattered light areas of discoloration. Printed early 19...

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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Equity and Diversity Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed
Equity and Diversity Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed

Equity and Diversity Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed

By Tosin Oyeniyi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Let’s come together Let’s learn to love one another Learn to love your brother Learn to love your sister Love your neighbor One eye can’t see One ear doesn’t hear One hand can’t cla...

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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Linen, Canvas, Ink, Linocut

Royal Feminine Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed
Royal Feminine Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed

Royal Feminine Linocut Print on Linen and Canvas, Unframed

By Tosin Oyeniyi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Unmounted artwork Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Tosin Oyeniyi is an intrinsically talente...

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21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Linen, Canvas, Ink, Linocut

Portrait of a Young Man, Old Masters Etching after Raphael Sanzio da Urbino
Portrait of a Young Man, Old Masters Etching after Raphael Sanzio da Urbino

Portrait of a Young Man, Old Masters Etching after Raphael Sanzio da Urbino

By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

Located in Long Island City, NY

Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, After by Alphonse Leroy, Italian (1483 - 1520) - Portrait of a Young Man, Year: circa 1858, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 10.75 x 8.5 inches, Size: 22 x ...

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1850s Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Etching

The Holy Family

The Holy Family

By Fra Bonaventura Bisi

Located in Chicago, IL

The Holy Family, 1634 Etching after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 - 1540 Casal Maggiore) 305 x 230 mm.; 12 x 9 inches References: Nagler Monogrammisten II...

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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Etching

Human Heads from Ancient Rome - Etching by Various Masters - 1750s

Human Heads from Ancient Rome - Etching by Various Masters - 1750s

Located in Roma, IT

Human heads from Ancient Rome, from the Series "Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", original etching from the end of the 18th Century, made by Various Old Masters.. In very good co...

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1750s Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Etching

La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England) /// Old Masters Royal Family
La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England) /// Old Masters Royal Family

La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England) /// Old Masters Royal Family

By Georges Henri Manesse

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Georges Henri Manesse (French, 1854-1940) Title: "La Reine Marie d'Angleterre (Queen Mary of England)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts Year: 1893 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: approx. 1,500 Printer: Chardon Wittman, Paris, France Publisher: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Sheet size: 10.69" x 7.13" Image size: 7" x 5.25" Reference: Sanchez/Seydoux 1893-7 Condition: Light discoloration at edges. It is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition Notes: This etching is after a painting from 1554 by Dutch artist Anthonis Mor (c. 1517-1577). Comes with its original tissue cover sleeve. This etching was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years - one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002. Mary I...

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1890s Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio

The Judgement of Solomon
The Judgement of Solomon

The Judgement of Solomon

By Hendrick Goltzius

Located in Middletown, NY

A searing, veiled political and religious allegory targeting the Spanish Inquisition and the persecution of Protestants in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War. Haarlem: Hen...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Grotesque Profile of Man with High Hat - Engravin after Rembrandt - 19th Century

Grotesque Profile of Man with High Hat - Engravin after Rembrandt - 19th Century

By Charles Amand Durand

Located in Roma, IT

Grotesque Profile of Man with High Hat is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. The piece of art belongs to ...

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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving

Panel with a Mascaron

Panel with a Mascaron

By Hans Sebald Beham

Located in New York, NY

Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), Panel with a Mascaron, engraving, 1543 [with the initials monogram and date in the plate]. Reference: Bartsch 231, Hollstein 235. Second state (of 2). ...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving

Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes
Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes

Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes

By Gerard Edelinck

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a 17th century portrait engraving of Jean-Baptiste Racine by Gerard Edelinck (1640-1707), published in Charles Perrault's 'Les Hommes Illustres' in Paris in 1696. Jean Racine (1639-1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille. Racine's works were primarily tragedies. He wrote Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for young readers. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury. The American poet Robert Lowell described his style as a "diamond-edge" and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's works often displayed his psychological insight, the passion of his characters, and the stark reality of his plots and stage descriptions. In 1672, he was elected to the Académie Française, and two years later he achieved the title of "treasurer of France", and later the honorary title of an "ordinary gentleman of the king" to King Louis XIV, and subsequently a secretary of the king . This beautiful engraved portrait is printed on chain-linked, laid paper with wide margins. The sheet measures 17.13" high by 10.75" wide. There is a small spot in the lower margin and a few tiny faint spots in the margins, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The original descriptive text pages, 81 & 82, are included. Provenance: This engraving was owned by Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Baron Harberton and the Viscount Harberton (1723-1798). He was an Irish politician, who represented County Kildare in the Irish House...

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Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Engraving

The Spectacle Seller

The Spectacle Seller

By Adriaen Jansz van Ostade

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 4 x 3 3/8 inches (102 x 86 mm), 1/4 inch margins. Signed in the plate, lower left corner. The 3rd state (of 6), after the rounding of the pl...

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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching

The Battle of the Amazons (Bellum Amazonum)
The Battle of the Amazons (Bellum Amazonum)

The Battle of the Amazons (Bellum Amazonum)

By Enea Vico

Located in Middletown, NY

A fierce battle scene with women warriors. (after Perino del Vaga) Engraving on oval-shaped light laid paper, 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (260 x 274 mm), the full sheet, trimmed at the pl...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving

L'Empereur Henri IV aux pieds du Pape Grégoire VII
L'Empereur Henri IV aux pieds du Pape Grégoire VII

L'Empereur Henri IV aux pieds du Pape Grégoire VII

Located in Middletown, NY

(after Federico Zuccari) The image depicts an event which occurred during the Investiture Controversy in 1077. Here we see the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV humbling himself before Pop...

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Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Laid Paper, Woodcut

Old Masters portrait prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters portrait prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add portrait prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Charles Amand Durand, Thomas Holloway, Vincenzo Campana, and Carlo Nolli. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Engraving and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Old Masters portrait prints, so small editions measuring 1.58 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $99 and tops out at $80,000, while the average work sells for $253.