Mia Weiner has been in the business of selling old master drawings and oil sketches since 1979 and has regularly held exhibitions in New York since then. She was the forerunner in America of private old master drawings dealers and the first to publish a comprehensive web site of Old Master Drawings. Until 1994 she mounted exhibitions in her private New York gallery, sometimes theme orientated such as Regarding the Antique and Emilian Drawings 16th - 18th Century. The latter coincided with a paintings exhibition of the same subject at the Metropolitan Museum. She has participated in a number of international fairs since 1990, in New York, London and Parma. Several of these fairs she helped to organize; many times she served on their vetting committees. Presently she is a committee member for the Connoisseurs Fair, the November fair of the Art & Antique Dealers League of America, an organization in which she also serves on the board.

Included among Mia N. Weiner's clients are many important European and American Museums as well as private collectors. Her first significant discovery, a rare and large sheet by Paris Bordone, was acquired by the British Museum in 1979. Many subsequent discoveries have been well placed including drawings by Barocci, Bernini, Annibale Carracci, Cigoli, Pietro da Cortona, Guercino, Mola, Passarotti, Preti, Reni, Ribera, Rembrandt, Tanzio da Varallo, and both Zuccari, for example. Other important discoveries such as Gatti’s Life Study (for a painting in the Louvre), the Bernini primo pensiero for the Sacrament Altar in the Vatican, the Cortona Landscape (for part of a decorative scheme in the Quirinale Palace), the gorgeous Chiari mythological ceiling design, the charming Luti pastel, and the very fine early composition by G.B. Tiepolo, to name a few shown on this web-site, are presently available.

Though specializing in Italian drawings of the 16th and 17th centuries, Ms. Weiner has always carried interesting and beautiful sheets of other European Schools, primarily from the 15th through 18th centuries. These presently include the exceptional Armida and Rinaldo by Pierre Brebiette, Natoire's Landscape from the Colosseum, a large, rare and typically obscure mythological subject by G.B. Corneille, the elegant and rare Female Nude by Aert Schouman who was reknown for his natural historical studies, the Venus by Jacob Matham with the daringly come-hither look on her face, an especially beautiful Moucheron Classicizing Landscape. Some 19th century works are occasionally part of Ms. Weiner’s inventory, such as the unusual oil sketch by Sir Alma-Tadema, of the Interior Wall in Casa di Livia, the theatrical Samson and Delila by Enrico Scuri surrounded by an extravagant frame of the artist’s design, the plein air oil of a Gushing Brook by the Swiss painter Steffan. It is hoped that this latest edition of what may well be still the most comprehensive web-site of old master drawings for sale, will make many of the present holdings of Mia N. Weiner accessible to both old friends and a new audience. In the event you are looking for a drawing by a particular artist or of a specific subject, please contact us as.