Ancient Painting '800 King David Playing the Harp Oil on Canvas

Charcoal on paper. Unidentified signature with date to the right of the face. The name of the young woman portrayed, Teresina Rota di Valsecca, is mentioned on the back, with a further date. The work is presented in a coeval conception.

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.

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.

Male Portrait 1877

Pencil on paper. Signed and dated lower right, in the oval. It is an early work by the well-known sculptor Luigi De Paoli, corresponding to the years of study at the Venice Academy. He also devoted himself to painting only in the last years of his life. The work is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Group of nine plaster casts for medals of different shapes and with different subjects: an Holy Family from SImone from Pesaro, a "charity", " Venus and Love", two potraits of nobles and a diety's face, other of historical-mythological theme. Displayed in coeval frames.

Oil on cardboard. The mountain landscape presents a group of houses along the trail which a small figure is walking on. The painting is presented on an early '900 frame with some defects.

Oil on cardboard. The wide landscape presents a river, animated with figures and boats, that runs through the wide valley and which the small castle overlooks. The painting, that needs cleaning, is presented in an early '900 frame with some defects.

Fabric embroidery. The embroidery represents a half-length girl in a popular costume with a mask, in the comedy of art style. It is mounted on a wooden frame with two side handles, commanding a rear coupling, probably being a closing panel.

Fisherman's family

Watercolor on paper. Northern European school of the 19th century. A scene of popular life on the seashore is presented: the whole family - wife and children - of a fisherman who has returned from a night out, helps to tidy up the nets and work tools, with the catch lying on the sand and the dry boat in the background. The watercolor was placed in a beautiful antique gilded frame, but larger in size than the painting, so the sky was integrated with another sheet of paper placed behind it.

Oil painting on canvas. The painting offers in ancient style the glimpse of a landing place for fishing boats on the coast, near the village; on the shore in the foreground, figures of commoners waiting for the sailing ships. The color patina is also antiqued; the painting is presented in a 19th century frame.

Coastal Glimpse

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. Salomon Corrodi established himself as a landscape painter, creating a large production of views especially of the Roman countryside, but also of the Amalfi coast, Naples, the Ligurian Riviera, which was widely successful throughout Europe. He preferred the watercolor technique. The work is presented in a period frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Italian school of the 19th century. The composition sees in the center, vertically, the hanging body of a hare, surrounded by various hunted birds; the animals are placed outside, on the steps of a flower garden of a rich villa, with statues and ornaments, which looms in the background on the left. The work is presented in a period frame.