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| Anonymous Spanish Artists Altarpiece of St Peter ca. 1480 tempera on panels Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Gerard David Blessed Virgin embracing the Dead Christ ca. 1500-1520 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Cariani Portrait of a Young Woman resting in a Landscape 1522 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
"Auricular Frame – A Mannerist framing style composed of highly stylized, free-flowing interpretations of animals, marine life, and floral forms. The name is derived from the earlike shapes of the ornamentation. There are three regional variations on this framing style, from Italy, the Netherlands, and England, each having different influences. . . . These frames can be seen both gilded and painted black and gilded."
– D. Gene Karraker, Looking at European Frames (Getty Museum, 2009)
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| Hans Bol Landscape with Venus and Adonis 1589 gouache on vellum Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Guglielmo Caccia Virgin and Child ca. 1615 oil on canvas Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
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| John Hoskins Portrait-Miniature of Queen Henrietta Maria in Masque Costume ca. 1632 watercolor on vellum Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Nicolaes Maes Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1675-85 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Johann Carl Loth The Good Samaritan ca. 1676 oil on canvas Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden, Franconia |
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| Giovanni Battista Gaulli Adoration of the Lamb (modello for apse fresco in Chiesa del Gesù, Rome) ca. 1680-85 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
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| Hieronymus van der Mij Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1715-30 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| William Hogarth Sketch for The Family of George II ca. 1731-32 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anonymous Artists working in London Danaë and the Shower of Gold ca. 1753-56 enamel on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
"Swept Frames became the most popular and characteristic style of the Rococo period. Their silhouettes are made up of a series of curves. The recutting and texturing of the gesso are always very fine and often have very detailed cross hatching. Other decoration consists of incised lines, punch work, and and a sanded frieze. The play between burnished and unburnished gold is very important."
– D. Gene Karraker, Looking at European Frames (Getty Museum, 2009)
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| Charles-Joseph Flipart Gathering in a Garden before 1797 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes La Paix 1867 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
"Artist Frames – A number of artists of different nationalities and from a variety of art movements took an active interest in the mid-nineteenth century in designing how their works would be framed and displayed. . . . The Impressionists made radical changes in both the profile and color of their frames. Using the optical theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, they adopted white and colored frames. Degas was on the leading edge of the artist-designed frames in France and stated, "It is the artist's duty to see his painting properly framed, in tune with the coloring of the work, and not with a harsh gold frame." As related by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, Degas once sold a painting to a friend and, having been invited to dinner at the friend's house, saw that the painting had been reframed in a gold frame. He took the painting off the wall and out of the frame, walked off with it under his arm, and never talked to the friend again."
– D. Gene Karraker, Looking at European Frames (Getty Museum, 2009)