Stipo Ebonized Wood Italy 18th Century

Veneto Last Fourth of the 18th Century

Baroque open desk in walnut, Veneto, last quarter of the 18th century. Top with leather insert, drawer and 3 drawers in the band, pair of doors and wavy legs ending with burnished bronze shoes. Inlaid with medallion frames, threaded in maple and veneered in walnut briar. Spruce interior.

Emilia Half XVIII Century

Emilian console supported by en vase legs, carved with motifs of French derivation and connected by a crossbar; the apron is carved with symmetrical architectural volutes. Entirely gilded in Mecca, the marble top was replaced later.

Emilia Half XVIII Century

Group of four Baroque mirrors carved with scrolls and floral motifs, entirely gilded with leaf; the mercury mirrors (one broken) are etched, with figures of classical divinities.

Oil painting on canvas. Neapolitan school of the mid-18th century. The painting proposes the Greek myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of King Agamemnon, leader of the Achaean expedition that was to leave for Troy. As the Greek fleet was unable to take to the sea due to unfavorable winds, the soothsayer Calcante predicted that, due to an offense the king had inflicted on the goddess Artemis, it now opposed their departure until the king did not. sacrificed his young daughter on the altar. Iphigenia courageously accepted the sacrifice and spontaneously ascended the altar, but at the last moment Artemis, pitying, exchanged her for a fawn and took the girl alive in Tauris, where she became a priestess of the goddess who had saved her. The great scene, set outside the Greek camp by the sea (the anchored ships in the background on the left, the tents on the right), sees in the center the goddess Artemis who exchanges the young and beautiful Iphigenia for the fawn, while the priest Calcante he is already holding the sacrificial knife; on the right the desperation of King Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra. The painting is in stylistic ways close to the production of Fedele Fischetti (1732-1792), the Neapolitan artist who devoted himself mainly to allegorical / mythological scenes, in particular in his first works from the 1860s. The work presented here was auctioned at Sotheby's in April 1998. Restored and relined, it is presented in a style frame.