Vanni Rossi – Selfportrait
Vanni Rossi Ponte San Pietro 1894 – Milan 1973 Selfportrait • 1935-40 Oil on canvas, 41 × 31 cm Provenance: Milan, private collection
Antonio Ciseri – Study of a Lost Male Profile (Vincenzo Ciseri?)
Antonio Ciseri Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland 1821-Florence 1891 Study of a Lost Male Profile (Vincenzo Ciseri?) • 1860 ca. Oil on canvas, 32 x 22,5 cm Provenance: Francesco Ciseri; Ciseri heirs
Francesco Hayez – Portrait of the Painter Luigi Bisi
Francesco Hayez Venice 1771 – Milan 1882 Portrait of the Painter Luigi Bisi (Milan 1814-1886) • 1881 Oil on canvas, oval, 60 x 50 cm Provenance: Milan, Jetta Bisi collection; Bisi heirs. Exhibition and bibliography: Dipinti di Francesco Hayez, exhibition catalogue, edited by G. Nicodemi, Milan 1934, p. 58, n. 88; G. Nicodemi, Francesco Hayez,…
Giuseppe Penuti – Portrait of the painter Luigi Bisi
Giuseppe Penuti Milan 1810 – 1877 Portrait of the painter Luigi Bisi (MIlan 1814-1886) • 1837 Oil on pressed cardboard, 26,5 x 22,5 cm Signed and dated lower left, with the brush stick “G. Penuti 1837” Provenance: Milan, Bisi heirs
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…