Painting by Christian Georg Schütz I - River Landscape with Shepherdess and Ruins

Antique Painting Signed G. Francesco Clipper Oil on Canvas '700

A Cherry Seller Being Courted by Two Musicians ca. 1720

Oil on canvas. The painting is accompanied by an expertise by the art historian Dr. Giuseppe Sava. The protagonist of the open-air market scene is a cherry seller, wearing a showy straw hat and sitting next to a basket of these fruits placed on a wooden bench, next to a stone on which the steelyard rests. With a smiling, almost winking look, turned towards the viewer, she is accepting the advances of the man who, behind her, is placing a hand on her shoulder, with a lascivious look, while two musicians on the left improvise a small concert. The composite and cheerful group harks back to the production of Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (1664 -1736), a painter of Austrian origins but Lombard in training and pictorial style, who was a "singer of peasants, street vendors intent on their daily occupations or pastimes", a specialist in market scenes, open-air concerts, card players, scenes of humble daily life created with laughing caricatural forcing and a search for comic effect. Cipper drew this narrative style from the Danish painter known as Monsù Bernardo, who was active for a long time in Italy between Bergamo and Milan: in particular, from him came the predilection for everyday stories and humble characters, as well as the impertinent nature of such characters, who seek the attention of the observer by staring at him. In this painting too, the female protagonist fixes her mischievous gaze on the observer, smiling with complicity and irony at the courtship game in which the three men make her the protagonist, implying a "market" that is no longer just that of cherries. In his expertise, Dr. Sava underlines the stylistic and typological relations of this painting with other characters by Cipper, in support of the attribution; the stylistic evolution in the formal and technical aspects of his works is also explained - the colors that lighten, with an evident predilection for ochre, hazelnut, sage green, among which powder blue creeps in; the milky backgrounds, the softer luminosity and the less plastic chiaroscuro -, an evolution that allows us to place the work in his production of the early 18th century. The painting has been restored and relined. It is presented in an adapted antique frame.

Antique Painting Male Portrait Oil on Canvas XVII-XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. The man portrayed is wrapped in a luxurious purple-red damask robe and holds an envelope in his hand, indicating a noble literary status. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in an ancient frame that has been readjusted and regilded.

Antique Painting Historical Subject Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. The large scene is set outside a rocky fortress and features a garrison of soldiers preparing for battle: in the foreground on the left, near a tree, the group of commanders on horseback observe the work and give orders, while the troops arm the cannons on the ramparts, prepare rudimentary lances and sharpen their sidearms. The colors are clear and dull, with shades of gray that pass from the clear sky with clouds to the rocky fortress, to get lost in the ground, turning to a sandy beige; only a few of the officers' uniforms stand out, breaking the chromatic uniformity. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a golden frame from the early 1900s.

Antique Painting Portrait of a Noblewoman Oil on Canvas '700

Oil on canvas. The noblewoman, an elegant and proud lady with silver hair, is portrayed in a pink evening dress, trimmed with lace and frills, and completed by a blue velvet cloak, lined with a silver arabesque fabric. The lady does not flaunt any jewelry, but only has a bunch of delicate little flowers on her hair. Restored and relined, it has a small loss of color in the background at the top. It is presented in a period frame.

Antique Painting Folly Oil on Canvas Italy Late XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Second half of the 18th century. A portion of a large ruined architectural structure fills the entire scene: a porch surmounted by a balustrade, overgrown with plants, surrounds a courtyard where various popular figures move, busy with their activities. A bright blue sky surmounts the structure and the light filters through one of the arches to create a play of light and shadows under the portico. On the back of the frame there is an attribution to Gaetano Vetturali (1701-1783), even if the quality of the figures here appears superior to those of the artist from Lucca, who established himself in his territory for his architectural caprices of great scenographic impact. The painting is presented in a gilded frame in style.

Antique Painting Landscape Oil on Canvas Italy XX Century

Oil on canvas. The painting, made in the first half of the 1900s, takes up the landscape works in the subject and in the pictorial mode: in a landscape rich in vegetation and with peaks in the background, a young commoner asks for charity from some travelers who rest on the roadside , near a stone arch. The canvas has undergone aging and is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Antique Painting Interior Scene Oil on Canvas XIX Century

Oil on canvas. Flemish school of the early 19th century. The scene, set in the shabby and spartan environment of an inn, features two card players using a barrel as a support surface, watched by two others, while they drink their mug of wine and smoke. The innkeeper, with his back to the right, is leaving the room. The scene is lively and amusing, with rather caricatural characters. On the first canvas, the painting is presented in a late 19th century gilded frame.

Antique Painting Capriccio Oil on Canvas Europe XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Northern Italian school of the 18th century. Typical architectural capriccio, or landscapes with inserted architectural structures, often ruins of classical taste but in this case rather the columned pronaos of a baroque structure, imposing to occupy most of the scene and contrasting with the small and poorly defined figures of wayfarers or popular characters. The dièinto, restored and relined, is presented in a mid-1900s style frame.

Antique Painting Landscape Ruins Oil on Canvas XVIII-XIX Century

Oil on canvas. Northern Italian school of the late 18th-early 19th century. In the wide landscape, which allows the gaze to wander over a vast plain with soft hills that loom on the horizon, an architectural ruin in stone is inserted on the right, while on the left a bridge, equally old and ruined, crosses the river. Numerous figures of wayfarers, on foot or on horseback, fill the scene. The painting, still on its first canvas, is presented in a golden frame from the early 20th century.

Antique Painting Landscape Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Central European school of the late 18th century. The large painting offers a rural landscape, with a peasant house on the left, the shepherdess in the foreground on the left who watches her flock of sheep watering in the nearby stream. The atmosphere of muted colors and soft lights, with pink clouds in the sky, recalls a quiet and peaceful twilight. On the first canvas, the painting is presented in a contemporary regilded frame.

Antique Painting Religious Subject Oil on Canvas XVII Century

David Playing the Harp

Oil on canvas. Northern Italian school of the 17th century. The scene depicts the biblical episode taken from the First Book of Samuel which thus tells: "Now when the evil spirit permitted by God came upon Saul, David took the harp and began to play; Saul felt relieved, he felt better, and the evil spirit departed from him." In the painting the figures are powerful and vigorous, both King Saul and the guards who hold him, depicted in a tangle of figures that occupies the entire left part of the scene; on the right instead is David, who although young and simple shepherd, stands calmly before the furious king, playing his instrument with dignity and firmness. In the background on the right, in a corridor of the palace, the priests and the king's advisors watch the dinner in dismay. On the frame of the painting is a plaque attributing it to Bernardo Strozzi. The painting was restored and relined in the mid-1900s, and is placed in a gilded frame in style.