Billboard roll

Written in beautiful handwriting on Yisebiao-type silk-edged paper (one-color frame). Artist's signature and seal in red, in the lower left corner. A hanging scroll is one of many traditional Chinese ways of displaying and displaying painting and calligraphy. Hanging scrolls are generally intended to be displayed for short periods of time and are then rolled up to be tied up and stored safely; they are rotated according to the season or occasion, and are never permanently exhibited. The surface to be painted of the paper or silk can be mounted with decorative borders of brocade silk. This roll is presented in a frame, stretched out on a panel.

Jacques Blanquer

Female Portrait 1891

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated 1891 in the lower left corner. Effective portrait of young woman. Features small, diffuse color drops and a background retouch on the left. It is presented in a coeval gilded frame.

Aleardo Villa

Portrait of Young Woman

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. The beautiful portrait features a rosy face framed in a cloud of white, that of a fluffy fur collar that fades into the background of almost the same color. It is of great efficacy and emotional intensity: light in the colors and in the fluffiness of the strokes, rendered with rapid brushstrokes and without outlines, it contrasts the almost childish charm of the pink bow in the hair, with the intense and brooding gaze of the young woman. Another female portrait made by Aleardo Villa in 1892 and sold at auction in London in 1995, which features the same woman seated in the same white dress, has been considered and titled as a portrait of the great actress Eleonora Duse. Appreciated painter, illustrator and advertiser, Villa studied under the direction of Bertini at the Brera Academy. Very skilled in portraying the faces and the female figure, sensual and dressed in fashion, towards the end of his career Villa abandoned painting to devote himself exclusively to advertising graphics: he was appreciated poster designer at the Officine Grafiche Ricordi in Milan. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame.

Stormy Navy Oil on Canvas Italy XIX Century

Oil on canvas. Of this suggestive and fascinating scene of a stormy sea, with ships at the mercy of the waves, there are different versions, inspired by the most important and well-known canvas, the one created by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), of the same size and preserved at the Castello Sforzesco from Milan. This proposal is very close to a similar work from the Gnecchi collection in Milan, certainly inspired by the Guardesca production: it differs in small details (the color of the flag on the ship on the right, the inclinations of the masts of the ships on the left and in the center, the shape of the clouds), which suggest a good copy, made in the nineteenth century, in the wake of the interest and suggestion for the naturalistic theme and, in particular, for the power of Nature, which developed above all in Italy during the period of Romanticism. On the back of the frame there is a paper label with an inventory number and the initials C.G. (Gnecchi Collection?). On the first canvas, the painting has a very small tear on the right. It is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Portrait of Young Woman

Oil painting on canvas. Portrait of a young bourgeois woman, with her head encircled by a garland of roses and the party dress, taken outdoors and turned three-quarters, with her head turned back to look at the painter. On the first canvas, the work has some small drops of color and a small hole. It is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century, adapted.

Landscape with River and Female Figure Oil on Canvas Italy XIX C

Oil on canvas. Italian school. With a romantic atmosphere, the landscape with the hill full of trees, the stream crossed by a bridge and the young villager carrying the amphora of water on her head, is surmounted by a sky mottled of different colors, with darker clouds that fade away into the pink of the dawning sky. On the first canvas, the painting shows small drops in colour. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Oil on Canvas by Gustavo Nacciarone Italy Late '800 Early '900

Portrait of a Girl

Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. The Neapolitan artist Gustavo Nacciarone was trained at the Free School of the Teramo painter Giuseppe Bonolis, from whom he inherited the plastic strength of the figures, but soon joined the reform of the painting with a historical subject of the countryman made by Domenico Morelli, which proposed scenes of historical episodes rendered with a veristic language, both in the content, with the use of costumes and objects inspired by real models, as in the stylistic expression, through the naturalistic study of the relationship between light and color and thanks to the adoption of a brushstroke modern. In the same style, while continuing to create views taken from life or scenes borrowed from the repertoire of everyday life, Nacciarone also tried his hand at orientalist subjects, and from around 1880 he was also attracted by Japonism and finally by the neo-Pompeian subject. Gustavo Nacciarone was also a very skilled draftsman and illustrator for various printed periodicals specialized in figurative arts, and he also devoted himself to painting for sacred and decorative commissions. He participated in exhibitions throughout Italy, but it was above all in Naples that, through his relations with the most fashionable patrons and collectors of the city, he favored the diffusion of the painting of many artists of his time. The work presented here, a very realistic and expressive portrait of a girl of the common people, well expresses her painting with a broad brushstroke, opaque and earthy colors but with chiaroscuro effects and well-defined shadows. It is presented in a coeval frame, from the late 19th-early 20th century.

Watercolor on Cardboard by Natale Gavagnin Italy XIX Century

Venice, Glimpse of the lagoon

Watercolor on cardboard. Signed lower right. Evocative glimpse of the Venetian lagoon, with fishermen's boat in the foreground and the city skyline in the background. Natale Gavagnin, born in Venice and trained at the Venetian Academy, devoted himself mainly to the landscape, and above all to that of his city and the lagoon. He exhibited mainly at the exhibitions in Venice and Milan. The painting is presented in a stylish frame. The watercolor is in good condition, with gore of humidity on the passepartout.

Watercolour on Cardboard by Natale Gavagnin Italy XIX Century

Venice, Glimpse of the Lagoon

Watercolor on cardboard. Signed lower left. Evocative glimpse of the Venetian lagoon, with fishing boats in the foreground and the city skyline in the background. Natale Gavagnin, born in Venice and trained at the Venetian Academy, devoted himself mainly to the landscape, and above all to that of his city and the lagoon. He exhibited mainly at the exhibitions in Venice and Milan. The painting is presented in a stylish frame. The watercolor is in good condition, with gores of humidity on the passepartout.

Oil on Cardboard North Italian Schools Italy XIX Century

Oil on cardboard. North-ItalIan school. The two small landscapes offer views of the countryside with the remains of ancient stone walls and wayfarers on the path that pass under the monumental arches. The atmosphere is romantic, imbued with pink colors. Although more landscape than monumental, the two squares are fully part of the production linked to the Grand Tour, the journey through Europe - and with the main stops in Italy! - that the young people of the European high aristocracy completed, upon completion of their university studies, to enrich their cultural background. This fashion favored a large production of small paintings of the places visited, in memory of the stage. The two paintings are presented in 19th century frames.

Oil on Canvas Italy XIX Century.

Oil on canvas. The portrait of the gentlewoman, sober in black, is proposed in an unusual exterior, which sees her sitting on a bare boulder, with the background of pink peaks and blue sky, to give a romantic atmosphere. The painting is presented in a gilded frame from the early 1900s.