As you remember from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" Venus disarmed her son Cupid by taking his arrows from him to avoid more torments of love. This is...
To the left you see the original marble sculpture from 1710 in Louvre. To the right you see a 38 cm high copy in patinated bronze. A 'grand tour...
[ATTACH] The first painting is from my collection. Painting unsigned. Oil on paper glued to wood panel. 16 cm X 22 cm. The second painting is by...
... only 4 cm high, cast from brass and a flea market find. Probably some sort of souvenir. Can you please tell me where he comes from and when ?...
[ATTACH] This portrait relief of goddess Flora looks carved from some sort of bone, possibly ivory ? The backside handwritten text tells in...
[ATTACH] Here's a pair of brass candlesticks. Baroque form, but probably only one hundred years old ? 24 cm high. Marked on the bottoms with 2 mm...
Here's a Bacchanal with Bacchus at the center. Oil on canvas. 55 cm x 50 cm. Looks Italian and 17th century to me. Maybe the frame is the...
This eagle figurine is a flea market find. The Chinese wooden base, seen to the left, is my addition and not original to the figurine, so no need...
A couple of years ago I bought this figurine at an auction. Pan of bronce sitting on a 'rouge griotte' ? marble base. 17.5 cm high. French ?...
Recently I bought this armchair at an internetauction for the equivalent of USD 100. It's made of stained and lacquered beechwood, carved with...
I've made a few postings, hoping that other members knew more about this and that, than I do. My conclusion: They don't. Instead they take other...
This comfortable chair, here shown with the original upholstering, is carved with ball-and-claw, Acanthusflowers and -leaves and the Celtic knot....
[ATTACH] To the left you see an allegory of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation Joseph II (1741-1790) renewing The Art Academy of...
Here are two small paintings: 1. Soldiers on horseback talking to young women. Oil on paper glued to board. 16 cm x 22 cm. 2. People around a...
Here's a probably French portrait drawing, probably from the time when 'le directoire' ruled France, (1795-1799). 14.9 cm x 12.3 cm. Unfortunately...
I bought this late Victorian genre painting at an auction. Possibly signed with a small three leaf clover in the carpet. Oil on mahogany panel....
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