Neapolitan Views Gouache on Paper Italy XIX Century

Oil on canvas. Lombard School. Portrait of a middle-aged austere and composed lady, The painting is in good conditions and comes in a coeval frame. that shows small drops of the gilding.

Oil on canvas. Lombard School. Portrait of a woman that highlights the lace of the dress and the crucifix around the neck. It is in good conditions and comes in a gilded coeval frame that shows small drops of color.

Pencil, charcoal and white lead on paper. Signed (Amalia Bianchi?) and dated at the bottom right. Very effective is the use of different pigments that creates a play of chiaroscuri that underlines the figure. The portrait come in a 19th century wooden frame with leather leafy and floral inserts; it has missing parts and color drops.

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.

Old Naples's View 1933

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Ricciardi was a prolific Neapolitan painter considered by some to be the seed of Neapolitan impressionism; he painted seascapes, beaches, views, landscapes and Neapolitan customs and traditions of his city as his main subjects. In his works the intense chromaticism, the study from life, the abandonment of the drawing and the limpid and terse light that pervades the scenes, reveal the knowledge of Impressionism, due to the presence in Naples of Giuseppe De Nittis. This glimpse of Naples has been repeatedly replicated by the artist, and in one of these works also appears the title "Impression of old Naples", absent here. It is an intense glimpse of the atmosphere of an old popular Neapolitan street, enlivened by a market populated by human figures, with old peeling walls decorated with hanging clothes and planters. The work is rather dark, a brown monochromatism prevails, interrupted only by the brighter colors of the human figures; the only source of light comes from the artificial lights turned on in the shop down the street. The work has a slight damage in the upper right corner (small cut of the canvas). It is presented in a coeval frame.

Drawings on rice paper. They represent four scenes of popular life without backgroun but just human figures with few elements that define the scene. One of the drawers has small missings. The drawings come in a Empire frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Unidentified signature lower right (Solini?). The man is portrayed with a headdress and home clothes, while holding in his hands an object that could be a snuffbox, to underline the dimension of domestic rest. The painting is presented in a frame from the early 1900s.

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.

Oil on canvas. Center-Italian School. The glimpse shows a river that flows fastlly crossing an hilly landscape; along the shore, at the left side, there are two women that are washing clothes and a wayfarer; on the right side of the river, in the background, ther is a small hamlet. The painting shows small drops of color. It comes in a 20th century frame that had been gilded again.

Landscape with Mountains

Oil on wooden table. Signed lower right. On the back, the scroll of the "Salvetti Art Workshop" in Milan. Stefano Bersani, Lombard artist and poet, devoted himself to the painting of life, even the most humble and common; in fact, among his works, in addition to various Lombard landscapes, such as this one proposed which has the Alpine chain as a background, also scenes of the fields with figures of peasants, farm animals, folk figures. He participated in many competitions, exhibited in numerous Lombard galleries and was in great demand in noble houses, where he was also an interior painter. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Oil on canvas. Eastern European School. Signed Szego G. below. These are two works to be proposed aligned because they depict a boy and a girl lying on the same lawn in a mirrored position, as if facing each other, probably intent on a love game: they wear gypsy clothes and have musical instruments with them - she a tambourine and him a violin - which refer to two characters of Slavic ethnicity, from the gypsy world. The whole is lively and serene. The two works are presented in styled frames.

Watercolor on cardboard. On the back there is the date 1892 and an unidentified signature. The composition presents a series of objects placed on a small table surmounted by a mirror: two books, one of which is open, a painted ceramic vase and a hookah. It is presented in a gilded tray frame from the 19th century.