Vintage 1960s-70s Mirror Metal Frame Italy

Oil on cardboard. Unidentified signature lower right. Landscape glimpse of a peasant countryside, with farmers approaching the wheat field, full of golden ears, while to the left of the path there is a shady spot, which leads to a fence. The painting is presented in a contemporary gilded frame, with small defects.

Oil painting on canvas. The painting tells the biblical episode narrated in the book of Exodus in which Hagar and her little son Ishmael that the slave had given birth to by Abraham, driven out of the patriarch's house due to the jealousy of his wife Sarah, find themselves in the desert of Beersheba without water: God sends them an angel who helps them by pointing the woman to a well of water. The scene is set in a Nordic landscape, anything but desert, but it is the figures that narrate the episode, standing out at the center of the scene in melodramatic poses. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a late 19th-early 20th century frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Portrait of a prelate, flanked by the Scolopi coat of arms, which bears the crowned monogram of Mary and the Greek letters MP and ΘY (abbreviations for Mother of God): in his hand he holds a papal bull with the seal of Pope Clement XI (1649 -1721 ) which bears the writing "Clemens Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam", the pontifical wording in perennial memory of a fact, which the Holy Father validates or says. The relined and restored work is presented in a period frame.

Jesus is Loaded with the Cross

Oil painting on canvas. This is the second station of a Via Crucis, entitled "Jesus is loaded with the Cross". Christ, already crowned with thorns tied with a rope around his neck, receives on his shoulders the large and heavy wooden cross, which some servants lift for him, while soldiers look on; on the right a soldier on horseback is carrying the insignia that will be placed on top of the Cross. Relined, the painting is framed in wooden strip.

Oil painting on canvas. The subject, recurring in 17th and 18th century painting due to the mystical but at the same time sensual component of this saint, presents Magdalene in the desert, wrapped in her long loose hair and a drape, while on her knees she meditates on the skull, the traditional Memento mori, holding a sackcloth in his hand; Above her is an angel holding the jar of ointments in his hand, another attribute of the saint, whose shoulder he is preparing to anoint, as a sign of consecration to God. The work, restored and relined, is presented in a contemporary frame.

Mountain Landscape

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. The Milanese painter Gino Federici specialized in Alpine views, as in this view, where in the foreground a flock of sheep drinks water from a stream, in the wide valley, under steep peaks. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame. It shows signs of previous restoration.

Mixed media on paper. Delicate oval portrait of a young man, whose face and hair fade into the pastel colors of the background, which seems to be one with his figure. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Landscape with Ruins and Figures

Oil painting on canvas. The vertically developed landscape sees an imposing architectural structure in ruins at the centre, invaded by weeds and presented with nuanced colors and features, as if to underline its decadence. In front, in the foreground and well defined, some figures of shepherds at rest, while the cows graze: one shepherd plays the whistle, the second, sitting leaning on his stick, observes the third, who, having stripped naked, is intent on washing himself, stretched languidly on the edge of the waterhole. On the left there is a glimpse of rocky peaks, gray under a sky with dawn atmospheres. The restored and framed painting is presented with a strip frame.

Study of a Hand 1906

Pencil on paper. Signed lower right. On the back there is a further sketch of a donkey's head. Celada's painting is capable of blocking reality in time and space, in a way that appears detached, analytical and scientifically exact (colours, reflections, transparencies), but communicating - as opposed to a total unreality - a great narrative pathos. Here we propose the study of a hand of the artist who is still very young, but already capable of powerful expressiveness in outlining the figure. Work in frame.

Interior of Stable, 1889

Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated 11-30-1889 lower left. Delleani, who initially painted mainly historical subjects, progressively approached landscape painting "en plein air", especially of the places of his origins, the Piedmontese valleys, characterizing his views with chromatic vibrations and warm brightness. In the last decades of his life, however, he also allowed himself to be involved in the orientalist trend, but then returned to his landscape views, creating above all panels rich in warm colors and suggestive atmospheres. Rarer but equally evocative is his production of interiors, such as this one of a stable, where the animated figures, the sheep, appear as almost indistinct spots of color within an environment played entirely on the luminous effects of a single chromatic range. Restored and protected, the painting is presented in a gilded frame from the early 1900s.

Oil on canvas. Venetian school of the eighteenth century. The portrait proposes the figure of a young woman wearing an everyday dress, but embellished with spotted fur edges; curiously, with the raised arm she flaunts a fur muff tucked over one hand, probably a habit to underline a fashion of the time. The painting shows signs of restoration, with conservation of the original canvas, although reassembled on a new frame. It is presented in a coeval oval frame, but surmounted by a wooden frieze added at a later time.

Ballerina 1896

Mixed media on cardboard. Signed dated lower right. Adolfo Magrini was a multifaceted artist: painter, illustrator, engraver, set designer, after an initial production influenced by the romantic painting of Palizzi and Morelli, he was contaminated by Central European influences, becoming more angular. This youthful work is still influenced by the Neapolitan artists with whom he trained. The painting is presented in a frame from the first half of the 20th century. Has some color damage.