Restoration Fireplace Wood Italy XIX Century - Second Fourth XIXth Century

Oil painting on canvas. The architectural complex, made up of an elegant building flanked by the church with two bell towers and dominated by a belvedere, is the Villa del Balbianello on the shores of Lake Como, surmounted by the Alpine peaks. The painting has been relined. It is presented in a mid-1900s frame.

Oil on canvas. Lombard School. It belongs to an important milanese family. Portrait of a gentleman that is holding a chain with a coat of arms in his hand. The painting shows some color drops and comes with coeval gilded frame.

Episodes from the Life of John the Baptist

Five drawings mixed technique on paper, depicting scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, as recounted in the Gospels (The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, the birth, the Baptism of Jesus, beheading, Salome presents the severed head to Herod). The back label specifies that the designs are copied from the cycle of the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the famous Basilica of San Lorenzo in Genoa. In the frame.

Departure for the war

China ink and watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower left corner. The scene depicts a Greek soldier, already dressed up for the war is saying goodbye to the desperate wife and son. Raffaele Postiglione used to paint historical and religious subjects. The painting is presented in coeval frame. 19th century.

Watercolors on paper. European school (probably French), 19th century. The group of watercolors proposes Chinese subjects, divisible into two groups: ten present various popular working activities, of artisans (the tailor, the embroiderer, the basket weaver,...), or of itinerant sellers, carried out both by men and by women; the last five instead portray figures of nobles and court dignitaries. They are part of the production of orientalist taste that interested Europe in the 19th century, concerning the countries of the Middle East but also distant China. The designs are presented in modern, styled frames.

Oil painting on canvas. Monogram AC unidentified lower left. The painting presents the biblical character King David, horned and in royal clothes, while he is intent on playing the harp, the instrument he uses to sing the praises of the Lord. His figure is placed on a cloud in the sky, but framed by a rich curtain. The painting has small holes and spots. It is presented in a mid-1900s frame.

Oil painting on canvas. At the bottom left there are the two initials AC, perhaps followed by an illegible surname. The Saint, framed by a rich curtain, is identified as Cecilia by the presence of the organ, an instrument she played and which had her erected as patroness of music; she is richly dressed for her wealthy Roman status and holds the palm of martyrdom. The painting has small drops of color and stains. It is presented in a mid-1900s frame.

Oil on wooden board. Signed lower right. These are three small paintings proposing landscape glimpses, made in the naturalistic style typical of Lorenzo Gignous: the two lateral ones, measuring 24 x 30 cm, propose the most recurring subject in the Lombard artist's production, i.e. glimpses of Lake Maggiore, animated by fishing boats; in the center a smaller landscape (18 x 25 cm) with a group of trees in the countryside. The three small paintings are presented in a single coeval frame.

Concept of a Young Figure

Mixed technique on paper; drawing cut out and applied on cardboard. Signed lower right. It is a small study, probably to be included in a larger scene, of the figure of a child carrying a basket of vegetables on his head, still undefined but sketched with traces of green; the boy is dressed only in a short shirt. Neapolitan painter, but also museologist and teacher of figurative arts, Dalbono trained in the Neapolitan verismo movement which referred to the School of Resina. He loved the landscape, which he portrayed from life, preferring the hours of dawn with its play of light; but he also produced many genre scenes, with popular bourgeois subjects, animated by different figures and always with Naples as a background, its views and its landscapes, told with suffused atmospheres, full of poetry. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Forest landscape

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. After an initial period dedicated to music, Francesco Sartorelli chose the path of painting, forming himself as an autodidact. Landscape painter, initially of the traditional type, he then approached divisionist painting, finally arriving at defining his own style made up of fluid and loose brushstrokes. This glimpse of the woods is proposed in the latter style, with brushstrokes of color playing on autumnal hues, which spread fluidly and quickly. The work is presented in a gilded frame in style.

Mythology

Grass juice painting on velvet. The painting presents a mythological scene enclosed in an oval frame, around which are small fauns playing the flute and capitals with vases and floral decorations. The central scene, set in a garden, shows a queen lying voluptuously on a triclinium, surrounded by her handmaidens, while seated at her feet, a slave, recognisable by his ankle ring, speaks passionately to her. These could be the mythological characters of Onphale, queen of Lydia, and Heracles, who was her slave, as well as her lover, for three years, during which he performed various feats for her. This myth has been widely told and depicted in art throughout the centuries, albeit with different interpretations. The painting is in good condition, apart from a slight tear on the margin of the inner oval frame on the left. The work is presented framed.