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Emilio Praga – The drawned

Emilio Praga Gorla 1839-Milan 1875 The Drawned • 1870 ca. Oil on panel, 12.3 x 16,4 cm Signed in brush lower left: “Praga” Backside inscribed in brush: “Ocra, biacca, grigio e nero / Si son messi in comunela / Sovra un briciolo di tela / Come i corvi in cimitero / L’ocra à messo ai…

Guido Marussig – Bread and Water

Guido Marussig (Trieste 1885-Gorizia 1972) Bread and water 1934 Oil on canvas on cardboard, 44.5 x 54.5 cm Signed and dated lower right: GUIDO / MARUSSIG / 1934 On the reverse, label: Teatro della Scala di Milano (ente autonomo) / Palazzo Clerici / Mostra di Pittura / 1 ottobre – 30 ottobre 1944 / Autore:…

Francesco Tanadei – Love allegory with the doves of Venus, the quiver of Cupid, the vase of Hebe and two musician Satyrs

FRANCESCO TANADEI  (Locarno 1770 – Turin 1828)  Love allegory with the doves of Venus, the quiver of Cupid, the vase of Hebe and two musician Satyrs  1805 circa (perhaps the work exhibited in Turin in 1805 on the occasion of the passage of Napoleon)  Ivory engraving, ebonized wood, 26.7 x 45.2 cm  On the back, inscriptions of collecting passages: “LO 1887 KMDC MZ”; “1904 M ZUCCARELLI ROMA”  Provenance: Rome, engraver Mario Zuccarelli collection; Rome, private collection             

Giuseppe De Fabris – Paolo and Francesca and Raphael and the Fornarina

GIUSEPPE DE FABRIS  (Nove, Vicenza 1790 – Rome 1860)  Paolo and Francesca  1830 circa  Terracotta model, h 19.5 cm  Iscribed in pen under the base: “Fabris Giuseppe / disciple of Canova Antonio / in 1833 he was regent of the Accademia dei Virtuosi in the Pantheon”           Raphael and the Fornarina  1830 circa  Terracotta model, h 16.5 cm  Iscribed in pen under the base: “Fabris Giuseppe / Canova’s disciple”  Provenance: Rome, private collection   

Giovanni Prini – Madonna with child and Madonna in the niche

GIOVANNI PRINI  (Genoa 1877 – Rome 1958)  Madonna with child  1920 circa   Polychrome ceramic, 27 x 9.5 x 8 cm  Signed inside: G. Prini  Provenance: Rome, private collection         Madonna in the niche  1921  Polychrome ceramic, h 14 cm  Inside, signed and initialed with the acronym of the ceramist Carlo Ciacci’s manufacture “Italian Society for Artistic Furniture”: “G. Prini, S.I.P.L.A. ROME”  Exhibitions: XC mostra degli Amatori e Cultori, Rome, 1922, p. 47, n. 9  Provenance: Rome private collection   

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.