Martin Knoller – Portrait of Giuseppe Piermarini

Martin Knoller Steinach am Brenner 1725-Milan 1804 Portrait of Giuseppe Piermarini • 1779 Olio on panel, 72,3 x 56,3 cm Signed and dated: “Martin Knoller Pinxit 1779” Labels on backside: “Comune di Firenze/Mostra del Ritratto italiano 1911/C.te Dott. Tommaso Valenti/Trevi”; “Mostra del Giardino Italiano, Firenze 1931-IX, Inventario 1088” Bibliography and exhibitions: Mostra del Ritratto italiano…

Johann Liss – Sleeping Nymph

Johann Liss Oldenburg 1595/97-Verona1631 Sleeping Nymph • 1619-25 Oil on canvas, 67,5  x 43,5 cm This exquisite painting of a sensual female figure asleep might portray a nymph, considering the rustic setting, while the detail in the top right, a nocturnal gleam, could suggest it is Ariadne asleep, abandoned by Theseus on the island of…

Giacomo Massa – Adoration of the Child

Giacomo Massa Rome 1596-post 1635 Adoration of the Child • Oil on canvas 99.2 x 136 cm The Adoration of the Child, depicted at night, with Mary, Joseph, Jesus in the manger and a pair of angels in the background whose wings can just be made out in the half-light, is the work of Giacomo…

Alberto Martini – Hop-Frog

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Hop-Frog 1907 Pen and India ink on paper, 251 x 180 mm Signed in pen lower centre: A. MARTINI.; title in pen lower centre: HOP-FROG; Dated on the back in pencil: 1907; stamped: Galleria d’Arte Spotorno Milano Provenance: Saronno, Tischer collection; Rome, private collection Provenienza: Saronno, collezione Tischer; Roma, collezione…

Edita Walterowna Broglio – Venus at the mirror

EDITA WALTEROWNA BROGLIO (Smiltene, Latvia 1886 – Rome 1977) Venus at the mirror 1955 PIetrasanta tiles mosaic, 36 x 25 cm Provenance: Rome, private collection Bibliography: Edita Walterowna Broglio, catalog of the exhibition of Macerata, edited by Giuseppe Appella, Mario Quesada, Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti, Rome 1991, cat. 89.