Priest in Prayer Oil on Canvas Italy XVIII 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 the table. A young commoner is portrayed gracefully posing with her spindle for spinning. If the figure recalls, due to the type of figure, an Italian subject, the pictorial modality refers rather to France or central Europe: it could be a work from Gran Tour, therefore created by a foreign artist in Italy for study. The work is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century, with small shortcomings.

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.

Mixed technique on paper, applied on cardboard. Italian school. The name of Londonio is proposed on the back: the delicate piece certainly recalls the subject and manner of the work of Francesco Londonio (1723-1783), the Milanese artist who specialized in the animal and pastoral genre. It can be considered a work inspired by Londonio, by an artist close to his field.

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.

Oil on board. The scene takes place in a wide desert landscepe with a cave where Magdalene was living praying and meditating; the Saint is in the center of the scene and she is in extasis in font of the crucified Chris and a skull placed on a rock outside the wide cave. The painting had been restored and displayed in frame.

Oil on canvas. Double monogram AL - LB and the year 1847 bottom left. Saint Francis in contemplation of the Cross in the rocky desert, turns his head in ecstasy towords the light above. The painting has a frame from the late 1800s.

Tempera on paper on etching. French school from about 1750-1770. Refined colouring of a coeval French print. The oriental subject is a young Chinese man who hints at some dance steps on an outdoor trail, under a plant of exotic fruit. The quality of the piece reminds of the French Rococo production, like those of François Boucher (1703-1770) or Jean Pillement (1728-1808), who both contributed to the spreading of the liking for Chinese representations in Europe. Pillement was the author of numerous drawings and etchings of Chinese taste, collected in two volumes (1767-71) and widely spread in Europe as models. The drawing needs cleaning and restoration. It is mounted on cardboard and comes with a frame.