Antique Etching from from Basilius Besler's Herbarium XVII Century

Painting Portrait of a Priest

Oil on canvas. Portrait of a prelate, severely intent on reading the breviary: the white fur cape worn by the priest over his cassock stands out, while on his head he wears the traditional biretta. The painting has a small cut in the lower left, and some paint loss. It is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Sketch by Francesco Paolo Michetti

Study for Vegetation

Pencil on paper. Signed lower right. Michetti, originally from Abruzzo, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he developed his realistic and naturalistic style. But rural Abruzzo, with its still uncontaminated nature, was always his main source of inspiration. Here is a small study of country vegetation. Framed,

Painting Portrait of a Little Girl

Oil on canvas. European School of the 19th century. Portrait of the face of a little girl, with a fruit in front of her resting on a wooden plate. On the first canvas, it has a patch on the back. It is presented in a period frame.

Composition With a Couple Of Wooden Sculptures 19th Century

Wooden sculptures. It is a composition of two wooden heads, a male one and a female one, placed on a board and framed by a gilded frame of 19th century. The heads might had been the handles of a canteran of 17th century.

Painting Jesus stripped of his clothes

17th Century

Oil on canvas. The scene depicts a moment of the Passion of Christ, which coincides with the Xth station of the Via Crucis: having arrived on Golgotha, Jesus is stripped of his clothes, while a soldier prepares the irons to nail him to the cross, another prepares the sign to be displayed on the cross, a third squeezes a sponge soaked in gall to give him water. Restored and relined in the early 1900s, the painting has some paint loss and a scratch at the top. It is presented in a period frame.

Painting Landscape with Figures

Oil on canvas. In the large classical landscape of Nordic style, with thick vegetation and a torrential river, three figures are depicted on the path on the left that evoke the biblical characters of the Flight into Egypt: a man leads a donkey, on which sits a woman, wrapped in a blue cloak, holding her little son in her arms. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in an early 1900s frame.

Antique Painting Female Portrait Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Central European school of the 18th century. The distinguished lady, who flaunts a dress enriched with bows and lace, is seated at her desk and holds a letter in her hand; at the bottom left an envelope bears traces of a name, unfortunately illegible, a device to make the portrayed character known. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in an early 1900s frame.

Antique Painting Historical Subject Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. This is an ancient copy of the work by Giovanni Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (1609 -1685), now preserved in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria (Palazzo dei Priori), which was previously exhibited for a long time in the church of San Severo in Perugia. Sassoferrato's models of Madonnas were very successful and were therefore widely copied and replicated. The painting, restored and relined, is presented in a period frame.

Antiuque Painting Religious Subject Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Central Italian school of the 18th century. Saint Joseph tenderly holds the baby Jesus in his arms, looking at him with great tenderness; some little angels are watching them around, and one of them holds the flowering stick, the iconographic symbol of the Saint. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a period frame.

Antique Painting Landscape Oil on Canvas France XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. French school of the second half of the 18th century. This bucolic landscape of verdant countryside opens up in the background with fields and blue mountains. In the foreground, near an imposing fountain consisting of a monumental marble base on which rests an amphora vase, a shepherd and a shepherdess are engaged in conversation, while they rest together with their herd of cows and sheep. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a late 19th century gilded frame.

Antique Painting Male Portrait Oil on Canvas XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. Italian school of the 18th century. The man, dressed in black with a white collar, poses in front of a shelf on which rest some objects: a crucifix, a bell, an inkwell, which identify the man as a magistrate. The painting has been restored and relined. It is presented in a period frame.