All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1800 item #1441543 (stock #273)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
German Botanical Colored Etching “Gloriosa” measuring 10 x 14“ frame size 17 x 20“
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1438042 (stock #a1752)
A fine miniature portrait by Jeremiah Meyer, painted in watercolor on organic wafer. The sitter, an attractive woman with long brown hair, is simply presented in a teal gown, with no jewelry or other distractions from her natural beauty.

The painting has no cracks, chips, bowing, or restoration. The brass case is in fine condition with an unimportant dent in the back. The overall size is 1 7/8" by 1 5/8"...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1228827 (stock #a1239)
A very fine miniature bust length silhouette on natural organic material by John Miers. The piece is signed along the left side of the bust line. As is usual with his best examples, this painting shows very finely executed bronzed work. The interior of the top is glazed with a hairwork enclosed. Sight size is 1 1/8" by 7/8", and the locket size is 1 1/4" by 1"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1477872 (stock #R191)
Antique, 18th century, Greek Orthodox icon triptych, finely hand painted on wood panels. The center panel, with a niche carved as a raised arch, depicts finely hand-painted the Mother Of God, "HODEGETRIA," with silver painted nimbate and two Angels holding the Virgin's Crown of the Queen of Heaven, flanked by Greek letters "MP OY," an abbreviation of the Greek "Mater Theos" (the Mother of God).

The Theotokos is dressed in an embroidered maroon veil and holds Jesus with her left arm...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1800 item #1484153 (stock #FA129)
This is an antique miniature portrait painting of Stanisław I (Stanislaus) Leszczyński, who was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at various times, Prince of Deux-Ponts, Duke of Bar, and Duke of Lorraine.

This exquisite painting is a work of art from the 18th century, believed to have been created circa 1750. It is an oval-shaped natural wafer, meticulously hand-painted using gouache, a type of watercolor paint...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1800 item #1461435 (stock #2600)
L'Enfant Gallery
$19,000.00
Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Delafontaine 1750-1820 Paris Foundary bronze sculpture of the God Of Wine, Bacchus measuring 36” in height and 13” depth, 16” width. The work is signed
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1800 item #1443810 (stock #1097)
French Map of Barcelona 18th Century measuring 10x25”.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1800 item #1437164 (stock #815)
L'Enfant Gallery
$30,000.00
"Joyful Wedding", Unsigned, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, 33 x 48", Frame Size 43 x 58"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1466525 (stock #a1891)
A strong English portrait miniature on natural wafer that will cause you to see spots before your eyes. However, they are on a high-necked dress worn by this woman whose attire also features a cap or wide headband. The reverse of the 2 1/2" by 2 1/8" gilt metal case has interwoven plaits of hair. Excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1800 item #1449505 (stock #1326)
L'Enfant Gallery
Price on Request
(Consignment). An important American oil painting of the Hand Sisters of Virginia by American artist Blanchard. The children dressed in late 18th century clothing measuring 38x48”,oil
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1800 item #1437037 (stock #792)
L'Enfant Gallery
$25,000.00
"Russian Icon", polychrome gilded, 22" x 35, 17th century
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1276639 (stock #a1390)
An Italian miniature painting on natural wafer, Signed lower left "Mario Salvi". The sitter is identified, in the family history on the reverse, as Olivia Pia Salvi.

Olivia, a pretty young woman in a pale blue gown, is painted in a soft manner, with luminescent skin tones, as was the Italianate style of the time. The artist composed the painting very carefully, with the almost cloud-like hair framing the face and curling down to follow the neckline of her dress...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1475933 (stock #3166)
L'Enfant Gallery
$15,000.00
A SPANISH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY POLYCHROMED SCULPTURE OF SAINT JOSEPH, CARVED WOOD MEASURING…..49” in height and 16” in width CATALONIA
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1800 item #1457702 (stock #2394)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,600.00
A Historic Pair of paintings on glass painted from reverse of George Washington and Martha Washington done in Canton China dating from 1797-1805. The story about the paintings is that as a result of an enterprising trade shipper named James Swords, who purchased a replica of the Antheneum bust of Washington by Gilbert Stuart in 1796 and immediately took it to Canton where he commission artist to make it an unauthorized copy on gas...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1800 item #1021287
Rare Burmese 18th Century Shan State hand carved white Marble Disciple in adoration. Solid and heavy piece. Polychrome with some discoloration due to age, condition: good. Size: H. 20" x W. 11.5" x D. 7.5"
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1800 item #1419564 (stock #JB02364)
Circa 18th century ink on paper European drawing, 11 1/4" by 16 1/2" inside the inner framing enclosure, 24 1/2" by 29 1/2" as framed, the subject a coastal village with small boat landing, the tiny figures going about their lives on shore and in the boats, and a classic old sailing ship just making it into the image at left, signed in the lower left corner "Jac. A__". The drawing is on laid paper that was laid down on a board...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1382152 (stock #a1661)
Signed J.J. and dated 1772 on the lower right, this watercolor on wafer shows an obviously well-off woman attired in the latest finery, and with an elaborate hairdo with a lace cap.

Excellent condition, with no flaws to speak of, and measuring 1 1/2" by 1 1/4"...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1800 item #1441969 (stock #279)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,100.00
Eighteenth Century Print by L. Boilly artist “Les Lunetts, delpech print c.1790, lithograph measuring 12“ x 9“, frame size 18 x 24. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Louis-Léopold Boilly ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life...