Jean-Pierre Thénot

Lake Lucerne

Color lithograph. Signed lower left. Jean-Pierre Thénot was a French painter, draftsman and engraver, author of treatises on painting. The lithography offers a landscape view that opens to the right on a large lake, probably the lake of Lucerne; on the left the scene is occupied by a rustic cottage and animated by figures. The lithograph is part of a series of landscape views of Switzerland. The work is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Jean-Pierre Thénot

Swiss landscape

Color lithograph. Signed lower right. Jean-Pierre Thénot was a French painter, draftsman and engraver, author of treatises on painting. The lithography offers a landscape view of the mountain: in the foreground on the right a chalet where refreshment is offered to travelers passing along the path; the landscape then extends over a wide mountain range, presumably that of the Alps, between whose peaks a lake opens up. The lithograph is part of a series of landscape views of Switzerland. The work is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Jean-Pierre Thénot

Landscape with Castle and Figures

Color lithograph. Signed lower left. Jean-Pierre Thénot was a French painter, draftsman and engraver, author of treatises on painting. The lithography offers a landscape view with a wide river on the bank of which stands a castle; in the foreground the scene is animated by figurines of ladies and gentlemen strolling along the path. It probably belongs to the series of reproductions of Swiss landscapes, made by the artist. The work is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Jean-Pierre Thénot

Swiss landscape 1857

Color lithograph. Signed and dated lower left. Jean-Pierre Thénot was a French painter, draftsman and engraver, author of treatises on painting. The lithography offers a landscape view with high waterfalls on the right, probably the Staubbach waterfalls in the Canton of Bern, and is animated by figurines of shepherds with their flock and couples in gallant walks; in the center of the landscape there is a chalet. The lithograph is part of a series of landscape views of Switzerland. The work is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Luigi Rados

Coeval frame engraving of the early 19th century

Engraving. Made by the painter and engraver Luigi Rados, it depicts the Resurrection of Christ. The print has diffuse gore of humidity. It is proposed in a beautiful coeval frame.

Luigi Rados

Coeval frame engraving

Engraving. Made by the well-known Italian painter and engraver Luigi Rados, it depicts a scene from the Acts of the Apostles, in which Saint Paul preaches to the people. The print has diffuse gore of humidity. It is proposed in a beautiful coeval frame.

Large Painting on Fabric

Vegetation with Parrot

Painted on fabric. It features a plant composition, with a central palm and a flying parrot. Of great scenographic effect, the painting belongs to the production that from the end of the 18th century rediscovered the naturalistic vein as a decorative subject, drawing inspiration from chinoiserie works, and which had Carlo Antonio Raineri and his son Vittorio among the greatest exponents. The painting shows tears and spots of humidity; it is probably cut in the lower part.

Portrait of Young Woman

Pencil on paper. Good use of hatching and chiaroscuro, to propose an effective and expressive portrait of a young common woman. The portrait is presented in a nineteenth-century wooden frame, embellished with leather inserts in the shape of leaves and flowers, with some small falls and shortcomings.

Group of six 19th Century Frames

Wooden frames from the 19th century, with engravings on paper inside depicting illustrious characters, in particular six scholars and philosophers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Montaigne, Linné, Fénelon and Mably). The prints were engraved by Pierre-Michel Alix (1762-1807) French engraver who created the "Collection de portraits de grands hommes" in 1792. The engravings have moisture damage and stains.

Claudio Bernacchi

Glimpse of Church with Sellers 1858

Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated below. The pretty watercolor portrays a glimpse of the city at the entrance to a church, where street vendors have set up their lively stall. Few biographical data of the Lombard painter Claudio Bernacchi are known, but his name often appears in the second half of the 19th century as a painter and architect in the creation of Milanese works (such as the Pavilion built in 1857 on the Loreto square on the occasion of the entry into Milan of the Austrian Emperor Francesco Giuseppe and his wife), as well as as a teacher of ornaments at the Brera Academy. The painting is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century, with some shortcomings.

Edoardo Covino

Mountain village with figures

Oil painting on canvas. At the bottom right there is the inscription "To dear friend Giuseppe Balestra - Edoardo Covino, 4 May 1896". Edoardo Covino was a Turinese landscape architect active between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century; he is particularly counted among the mountain landscape architects. The painting is presented in a gilded style frame.

Composition With a Couple Of Wooden Sculptures 19th Century

Wooden sculptures. It is a composition of two wooden heads, a male one and a female one, placed on a board and framed by a gilded frame of 19th century. The heads might had been the handles of a canteran of 17th century.