Rural Nightscape With Goats Mixed Technique On Cardboard 18th Century

Oil on canvas. In the scene, set in a countryside near a watercourse, some lumberjacks are intent on cutting tree trunks, to entrust them to the watercourse; on the left, in the background, women and children bring the meal. The canvas offers a well-defined landscape rich in elements, in which human figures instead rather nuanced, almost monochrome those on the left, are inserted as accessory elements in the scene. Restored and relined, the painting is presented framed with a strip.

Oil on canvas. Flemish school of the seventeenth-eighteenth century. The genre scene of popular taste features some villagers playing boules in the street, in front of a dilapidated barn, while one of them fulfills his physiological needs in a corner. The Flemish taste is found in the typology of figures and country gods it describes, and the "picturesque" note, albeit very realistic, is particularly close to the production of the painter Adriaen Brower (1606-1638), as suggested by an old attribution on the back. The painting is presented in a styled frame.

Tempera on canvas. The painting is part of a series of gouaches depicting the Allegories of seasons. The landscape depicts the remains of a fortress with some figures walking and others on a cart. The swallows are flying over the green trees. Presented in coeval frame. Late 18th century.

Oil on canvas. Mary, St. Joseph and the Baby Jesus, surrounded by the heads of little angels, are depicted in a very intimate and serene attitude: the putative father, who has an open book in his lap, hands a white flower to the child who reaches out to grab it, under the tender gaze of Mary who holds him in her lap. On the first canvas, with some fall in colour and marked crack especially in correspondence with the dark background, the work is presented in the original coeval frame.

Oil on copper. The Magdalene, wrapped in her long hair with which she covers her nakedness, turns her eyes to the sky where angels look out. Around her a barren landscape. The painting is presented in a frame from the 1900s.

Group of 6 Etchings

Etchings. The six prints belong to the same series, entitled "C'est-ici les différents jeux des petits Ppolissons de Paris" (Here are the different games played by the little brats of Paris), which illustrates the street games played by Parisian children. Each panel presents the title and explanation of the game in French: the first panel, which also presents the title of the series, has "Le sabot" (the clog), then we have: La sortie du college (leaving school), la toupie (the spinning top), la corde (the rope), la fossette ou jeux du noyaux (the hazelnut game), le coupe- tête (the little horse). They are the work of Augustin de Saint-Aubin, who belonged to a famous dynasty of French draughtsmen and engravers.

Oil on canvas. Italian School. On the left, the landscape shows a farmhouse on the edge of a wood with rich vegetation, with figures of travellers on the path in front of it; on the right, the scene opens up to a view of a lake in the background, surmounted by blue mountains fading into the sky. The painting, conforming to the 18th century landscape style, has been previously restored and re-painted. In fair condition, it is presented in a revival frame.

Oil on canvas. Landscape of rugged lands an barren mountains where a needle-like plant stands out poorly; we can see some figures of wayfare in the lower part. The painting had already been restored and turns ot to have been painted darker with an oxidised protective paint. Displayed in a ancient gilded frame with rear reinforcement.

Oil on canvas. The floral composition is part of the large production of this subject that spread in Italy and Europe starting from the seventeenth century, with purely decorative purposes. The painting proposed here has traces of previous restorations and has been relined, but needs further cleaning. It is presented in an antique relacquered frame.

Oil on canvas. The floral composition is part of the large production of this subject that spread in Italy and Europe starting from the seventeenth century, with purely decorative purposes. The painting proposed here has traces of previous restorations and has been relined, but needs further cleaning. It is presented in an antique relacquered frame.

Ink and watercolor on paper. Flemish School. On the back there is a lebel of a importantant private collection. The scketched drawing shows a view of a valley from a path on a hill that leads to a wood. Displayed in a revival frame.

Oil on canvas. Landscape of Northern Italy, with large mountains covered in snow on the background, there is a small castle at their feet, and the wide river is in the foreground, with some fishermen on its shores. The painting has some paint losses and evident craquelure. It is presented in a frame in style.