Domenico Pellegrini – Portrait of Giovanni Andrea de Marinis
Domenico Pellegrini Galliera Veneta 1759 – Rome 1840 Portrait of Giovanni Andrea de Marinis • 1790 Oil on canvas, 75,5 x 62,5 cm Inscribed lower left: “D.co Pellegrini / f. 179[0]”
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
Gaetano Ferrari – Jupiter Aegiochus
Gaetano Ferrari Marostica 1786 – Venice 1848 Jupiter Aegiochus • 1840 ca. Red Albania marble, cm 46.5 × 31.5 × 8 Archival documentation: Venice, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Concorsi e premi industriali, 1840, b. 102, f. 3, n. 127 Ferrari Gaetano The gemstone portraying Jupiter, bearer of the Aegis (the shield made…
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…
Alfredo Biagini – Cercopiteco rosso
Alfredo Biagini Rome 1886 – 1952 Cercopiteco rosso • 1926 Bronze, 60,5 x 32,5 x 95 cm
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,…
Sofonisba Anguissola – Portrait of a Canon Regular of the Lateran
Portrait of a Thirty-five-year-old Canon Regular of the Lateran 1546-1550 circa Oil on panel, 18.8 x 14.8 cm Inscribed on the back of the panel: Anno natiuitatis sue [sic.] XXXV”; lower down in ink with a different calligraphy: “Characa” This charming panel painting, radiant in colour scheme and in excellent condition, portrays a young Canon…
Vincenzo Gemito – Il Pescatoriello Marvasi (The Marvasi Fisherboy)
Gemito Vincenzo Naples 1852-1929 Il Pescatoriello Marvasi (The Marvasi Fisherboy) • 1876 Bronze, h 27 × 25 cm Bibliography: Salvatore Di Giacomo, Vincenzo Gemito. La vita – L’opera, Naples 1905, pp. 26 (ill.), 39-43; Esposizione e vendita a trattative private della collezione di opere d’arte antica e moderna raccolta dal comitato esecutivo a beneficio della…
Alberto Savinio – Le Portrait Mysterieux
Alberto Savinio Athens 1891 – Rome 1952 Le Portrait Mysterieux • 1932-33 Mixed technique, tempera and oil on paper glued on canvas, 61.5 × 45.5 cm Signed lower right: “Savinio” Authentic Alberto Savinio Archive Association, dated July 10, 2023
Andrea Sacchi – Apollo in Vulcan’s Forge
Andrea Sacchi Nettuno 1599- Rome 1661 Apollo in Vulcan’s Forge • 1640 ca. Oil on canvas, 60 × 44 cm On the back, wax seal of the Colonna family; another wax seal of the Muccioli family; inscribed in brush: “Andrea Sacchi”