Domenico Pellegrini – Portrait of Giovanni Andrea de Marinis
Domenico Pellegrini Galliera Veneta 1759 – Rome 1840 Portrait of Giovanni Andrea de Marinis • 1790 Oil on canvas, 75,5 x 62,5 cm Inscribed lower left: “D.co Pellegrini / f. 179[0]”
Carl von Steuben – Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt
Carl von Steuben Bauerbach 1780 – Paris 1856 Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt • 1822 Oil on canvas, 72 x 58 cm
Antonio Bueno – Portrait of Pietro Annigoni
Portrait of the painter Pietro Annigoni • 1943 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm Signed and dated bottom left: A. Bueno 1943 Label on the back: A. Bueno, Galleria d’arte Firenze, Via Cavour 14, 1943 Bibliography: Saverio e Antonio Bueno, exh. cat. (Florence, Galleria d’Arte “Firenze”, 30 gennaio – 10 febbraio 1943). Not published…
Pelagio Palagi – Hylas abducted by the Nimphs
Pelagio Palagi Bologna 1775 – Turin 1860 Hylas abducted by the Nimphs • 1810 ca. Oil on canvas, 170 x 215 cm It seems to me that after the impressive publication of The Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche (to grace the Detroit Institute of Arts) on the part of K. Lankheit, a historian to whom,…
Giacinto Gigante – Landscape of Bacoli from i fondi di Baia
Giacinto Gigante Naples 1806 – 1876 Landscape of Bacoli from i fondi di Baia • 1844 Oil on paper on plywood, 40 x 61,5 cm Bottom left: 30 8bre 1844/G.Gigante Bibliography: Mostra di G.Gigante/luglio- Settembre 1928/ Elenco delle pitture raccolte e ordinate per cura dell’ispettore prof. S. Ortolani, Napoli [Villa Floridiana] 1928 p. 14, n.…
Vincenzo Camuccini – The Death of Porzia
Vincenzo Camuccini Rome 1771 – 1844 The Death of Porzia • 1824 ca. Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 64.5 cm The episode portrayed in this sketch by Vincenzo Camuccini is taken from the history of Rome in the Republican era, an inexhaustible reservoir of exemplary acts of civil and moral virtue, to which painters in…
Luigi e Antonio Manfredini – Tripod Basin Holder
Luigi Manfredini Bologna 1771 – Milan 1840 Antonio Manfredini (?) – Milan 1838 Tripod Basin Holder • 1811-14 Gilded bronze and lapis lazuli, 80 x 39 cm Basin in gilded bronze, modern The tripod, designed as a support for a bowl, is part of a group of pieces of furniture of the same shape and…
Giacinto Diano – Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
Giacinto Diano Pozzuoli 1731 – Naples 1803 Presentation of Jesus at the Temple («macchia» for the canvas in the left Cappellone of the church of Santa Maria Incoronatella della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples) • 1780-81 Oil on canvas, 101,5 x 69,5 cm
Adolfo De Carolis – Study for male nude
Adolfo De Carolis Montefiore dell’Aso 1874 – Rome 1928 Study for male nude on the left tympanum of Aemilius for Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna • 1911-12 Oil on canvas , 60,5 x 77 cm Selected bibliography for Palazzo del Podestà: Pel salone del Podestà, Lettera al direttore, in “Il resto del Carlino”, 15 novembre…
Johan Christian Dahl – View of Vesuvius erupting
Johan Christian Dahl Bergen 1788 – Dresden 1857 View of Vesuvius erupting (“The Small and the Big Crater on Vesuvius”) • 1821 Oil on paper applied on canvas, cm 28.5 × 42 Provenance: identifiable with “The Small and the Big Crater on Vesuvius” donated by Dahl to Professor Teodoro Monticelli in Naples in January 1821…