ANDREA APPIANI Milan 1754-1817 Europa Sits on the Back of the Bull ca. 1784-1786 Tempera on canvas, 190 × 135 cm Provenance: Milan, Palazzo Castelbarco, Carlo Ercole Castelbarco, marquis of Cislago; Milan, Palazzo Silva, count Ercole Silva, from 1808 ca.; Cinisello, Villa Silva, count Girolamo Ghirlanda Silva, from 1840; Maria Celeste Camilla Biandrà Trecchi Ghirlanda…
ANDREA APPIANI Milan 1754-1817 Europa Abducted by the Bull through the Waves ca. 1784-1786 Tempera on canvas, 190 × 135 cm Provenance: Milan, Palazzo Castelbarco, Carlo Ercole Castelbarco, marquis of Cislago; Milan, Palazzo Silva, count Ercole Silva, from 1808 ca.; Cinisello, Villa Silva, count Girolamo Ghirlanda Silva, from 1840; Maria Celeste Camilla Biandrà Trecchi Ghirlanda…
ANDREA APPIANI Milan 1754-1817 Europa is Consoled by Venus who Presents Cupid to her ca. 1784-1786 Tempera on canvas, 190 × 135 cm Provenance: Milan, Palazzo Castelbarco, Carlo Ercole Castelbarco, marquis of Cislago; Milan, Palazzo Silva, count Ercole Silva, from 1808 ca.; Cinisello, Villa Silva, count Girolamo Ghirlanda Silva, from 1840; Maria Celeste Camilla Biandrà…
Carlo de Paris Barcelona 1800-Rome 1861 View of Mexico Valley 1836 ca. Oil on canvas, 148,5 x 221,5 cm Provenance: Rome, private collection After long oblivion, due to the loss of many of the works recorded by the sources of the time, there has been a gradual rediscovery of the figure of Carlo de…
Léopold Louis Robert (Les Éplatures 1794 – Venice 1835) Woman from Sora Crying Her Dead Daughter Oil on canvas, 45,8 x 37,8 cm
Carlo Bonavia (Napoli, attestato tra il 1751 e il 1758) View of Baiae with the Temple of Diana Oil on canvas, 80 × 159 cm Signed lower center: «Carlo Bonavia p.» A condensation of the interests stirred in travellers on the Grand Tour by the territory of the Kingdom of Naples—nature, archaeology, folklore—this enchanting…
Giovanni David (Cabella 1743 – Genoa 1790) Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple 1784-1785 Black ink pen, polychrome watercolors, tempera on paper, 522 x 485 mm Provenance: Rome, private collection It is the presentation drawing for The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple painted by David in 1785 for the church of…
Carlo Bonavia (Naples, known between 1751 and 1788) View of Baiae with the Aragonese Castle and the Temple of Venus Oil on canvas, 80 × 159 cm Signed lower right: “Carlo Bonavia p.” A condensation of the interests stirred in travellers on the Grand Tour by the territory of the Kingdom of Naples—nature, archaeology,…
Giovanni De Min Belluno 1786–Tarzo 1859 Study for the Fresco Cycle Devoted to Napoleon in the Palace of the Countess Samoyloff in Milan: the Celebration of Napoleon portrayed by Canova among the Great Men in the Arts, Sciences and Politics from Antiquity to Present (Raphael, Dante, Galileo, Colombus, Galen, Fidia, Alexander the Great, Socrates, Canova,…
Mario Mafai (Rome 1902-1965) Vase of dahlias with bunch of grapes 1954 Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm Signed and dated bottom right: “Mafai 54” Provenance: Rome, private collection The painting’s changed colours recall the constant expressive flair of the artist, protagonist with Scipione and his wife Antonietta Raphael of an eccentric line…