Luigi Pampaloni – Venus Entering the Bath, sketch
Venus Entering the Bath, sketch • 1836-37 Terracotta sketch, height 38 cm
Giulio Aristide Sartorio – Ex-Libris Onorato Carlandi
Giulio Aristide Sartorio Rome 1860-1932 Ex-Libris Onorato Carlandi • 1895 ca. Charcoal, smudge on paper, 313 × 293 mm Inscribed lower: “EX LIBRIS ONORATO CARLANDI”
Vincenzo Gemito – The Prophet
Vincenzo Gemito Naples 1852 – 1929 The Prophet • 1916 Pencil, watercolor, brownish watercolored ink, 410 x 275 mm Signed and dated lower left: V. Gemito 1916
Giulio Aristide Sartorio – Sphinx / Scylla and Charybdis
Giulio Aristide Sartorio Rome 1860-1932 Sphinx / Scylla and Charybdis • 1890-95 ca. mixed technique on prepared paper, 290 x 300 mm GAS monogram at bottom left Bibliography: Scilla e Cariddi. Pubblicazione dell’Associazione della Stampa Periodica Italiana a beneficio del Patronato Regina Elena per gli orfani del terremoto, Roma 1909, illustrato al quarto di copertina;…
Fausto Vagnetti – Still life with books and vase
Fausto Vagnetti Anghiari 1876 – Rome 1954 Still life with books and vase • 1954 Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm Bibliography: Anna Maria Damigella, Fausto Vagnetti. Il disegno e la pittura, Anghiari, Centro Studi del Territorio e del Paesaggio, Città di Castello, Petruzzi, 2004, cat. 70.
Antonio Basoli – Ancient Scenic Perspective
Antonio Basoli Castel Guelfo 1774 – Bologna 1843 Ancient scenic perspective with doric colonnade and exedra • 1800-10 circa Pencil, pen, gray ink watercolour, colored watercolors on paper, 730 x 955 mm
Jean-Baptiste FrĂ©dĂ©ric Desmarais – Illustrious Tuscans invite Elisa Baciocchi to the Government of the Duchy
Jean-Baptiste FrĂ©dĂ©ric Desmarais Paris 1756 – Carrara 1813 Illustrious Tuscans invite Elisa Baciocchi to the Government of the Duchy • 1809 oil on panel, 50 x 56.5 cm Fragment of inscribed label on the back: “[…] Bartolomeo di S. Marco/Michell’A[…]/Leonardo da Vinci/9 Galileo/ 10 Machiavelli/ 11 Le Grazie/12 Il Senatorio […]/Trono/13 Le D[…] di Corte…
Duilio Cambellotti – Vase with Does
Duilio Cambellotti Rome 1876 – 1960 Vase with does • 1903-6 Bronzo, altezza 23 cm Coeval exhibitions: LXXVII Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti, SocietĂ degli Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti, Roma 1907; Esposizione Internazionale, Mostra delle Scuole per i contadini dell’Agro Romano, Roma 1911. Bibliography: E. Agostinoni, Duilio Cambellotti, in “Il Secolo XX”, a.…
François-Marius Granet – Colosseum Interior
François-Marius Granet Aix-en-Provence 1775 – 1849 Interno del Colosseo • 1802 ca. oil on canvas, 99 x 75 cm For so long, artists have celebrated the majestic beauty of the Colosseum, the Roman amphitheatre built in the time of Emperor Titus (79-81). For so long, painted views have reflected the fascination for that grandiose elliptical…
Melchior Barthel – Satyr
Melchior Barthel Dresden 1625 – 1672 Satyr • 1662 white Carrara marble, h. 53.5 cm Provenance: bought in Venice for Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria; described in the inventory of the collection of Archiduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (A. Berger, Inventar und Kunstsammlung …, “Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien”, 1, 1883, p. CLXXVI, n. 514l);…