Ancient Painting Landscape Giuseppe Gabani Watercolor on Paper '800 - Landscape with River and Figures

Oil painting on canvas. Of ancient taste, the landscape, verdant and with the village at the center, is animated in the center by figures of shepherds and a wayfarer on horseback who water the animals in the stream, conversing with another wayfarer passing over the bridge. Restored, it is presented in a coeval adapted frame.

Crayons on paper, mounted on stretcher. Delicate close-up of a young girl, with an innocent and shy gaze turned downwards. The drawing is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Oil painting on canvas. The landscape offers a glimpse of the lake, overlooked by a poor village and a small fishing boat sailing. in the background tower two blued rocky peaks. There are some moisture spots. Oval in format, the painting is currently presented in a contemporary gilded rectangular frame.

Glimpse of Paestum

Gouache on cardboard. Signed lower right. The Neapolitan painter Antonio Coppola attended courses at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples. He was a good temperer and executed with ease and with marine effect and views of Naples, with a production sought above all by foreigners and tourists. The foreshortening shows the countryside around the temple of Paestum, with a hay cart and its farmer in the foreground. It is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century.

Swiss Landscape 1857

Colored lithograph. Signed and dated at the bottom left. Jean-Pierre Thènot was a french painter, draftman, engravor and author of painting treatises. The lithograph shows a landscape view with high waterfalls on the right, probably the Staubbach Falls in the canton of Berne, and is animated by figures of shepherds with their flocks and couples on gallant walks; in the centre of the landscape is a chalet. The lithograph is part of a series of landscapes of Switzerland. The art piece comes in a coeval gilded frame.

Oil painting on canvas. In the suggestive style of impressionist taste. which plays on the effects of light and shadow and on nuanced chromatisms, this landscape offers large verdant plants, which occupy the scene on the bank of a river in which the vegetation is reflected; in its shadow, an indistinct figure strolling alone. The painting is presented in a coeval carved frame.

Oil painting on canvas. The landscape reproduces a countryside near the sea coast; on the left the houses, in the center some human figurines, on the right two grazing goats: the romantic atmosphere, supported by the broad sky with pinkish-white clouds, is typical of a "postcard" from the Grand Tour. The work is presented in coeval frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Italian school of the 19th century. The portrayed canon, very severe in pose and expression, holds the prayer booklet in his hands. The painting has dirt spots. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Oil painting on canvas. The portrait of the young man, elegantly dressed, is inscribed in an oval outline. There are slight drops of color and signs of sagging of the canvas. It therefore needs restoration. It is presented in a coeval frame, with various signs of wear, to be restored.

Pencil on paper. Good use of the hatching and chiaroscuro are shown in this portrait of a young woman. The portrait comes with a 19th century wooden frame that had beeen embellished with leafy and floral leather inserts; the frame has some color drops and some missing parts.

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.

Burin engravings on copper. Designed by Vincenzo Gazzotto and engraved by Antonio Bernati (1792-1873) in 1833, these are four engravings taken from the figurative repertoire "The costume of all nations and of all times, described and illustrated with an atlas" published by Lodovico Menin between 1833 and 1843. Each panel is numbered in the upper right corner, and bears in the upper center the indication of the geographical region and historical period of the costume scenes depicted. There are costumes: Lombardi sec. IX - X; Lombardi sec. XIV -XV; Tuscans sec. XIII-XIV; Marca Trevigiana sec. XIV. The engravings are presented in wooden frames from the mid-1900s, in an antique style.