Luigi Rados

Coeval frame engraving of the early 19th century

Engraving. Made by the painter and engraver Luigi Rados, it depicts the Resurrection of Christ. The print has diffuse gore of humidity. It is proposed in a beautiful coeval frame.

Luigi Rados

Engraving in a coeval frame

Engraving. Made by Luigi Rados, a well-known Italian painter and engraver, from a painting depicting the evangelical scene of Jesus walking on the water and saving Peter when, trying to emulate Christ, he sinks into the lake. The engraving, which presents diffuse gores of humidity, is presented in a beautiful coeval frame.

Luigi Rados

Coeval frame engraving

Engraving. Made by the well-known Italian painter and engraver Luigi Rados, it depicts a scene from the Acts of the Apostles, in which Saint Paul preaches to the people. The print has diffuse gore of humidity. It is proposed in a beautiful coeval frame.

The Holy Family

Engraving from the end of the 19th century, from a painting by Raffaello Sanzio. It is presented in a beautiful coeval wooden frame, with an internal strip in wood-colored plaster.

Inside of a Stable with Cow and Sheep, Oil on Board, 19th Century

Oil on board. Apocryphal signature of G.Segantini on the back. Through the wide brush strokers and the blurred esges, we can see inside a stable, painted with dark and brownish colors, the back of a cow and the head of a sheep, only ones light colored spots. Although the good quality and the strong composing skills, the painting can be inspired by the prodution of the master of the Italian Divisionism, but not coherent with it.

The Virgin of Seville (or The Holy Family)

19th century engraving

Engraving. This is a print from the famous painting by Murillo, entitled The Holy Family or even the Virgin of Seville, currently preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The engraving was engraved by Carlo Cattaneo in Turin. It has several damp spots. It is presented in a frame from the early 1900s.

Stanislao Grimaldi

Study of an Officer on Horseback

Lead mine study on paper. Signed in the lower right corner Grimaldi. An oval depicts an officer of the Batteries on horseback charging; at the base coats of arms and military triumphs. The knight's uniform refers to the Carlo Alberto period, around 1845. It is a study by Grimaldi commissioned to him, probably for a print or publication, by the Voloire Regiment, or rather the body of the "Horse Batteries", the particularly mobile artillery units, used in rapid support to the actions of the other units. Stanislao Grimaldi, Count of Poggetto, of Turin, was the official painter of Vittorio Emanuele II, superintendent of the Albertina Academy in Turin and known as an illustrator of Risorgimento battles. The drawing is presented in a frame.

Group of six 19th Century Frames

Wooden frames from the 19th century, with engravings on paper inside depicting illustrious characters, in particular six scholars and philosophers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Montaigne, Linné, Fénelon and Mably). The prints were engraved by Pierre-Michel Alix (1762-1807) French engraver who created the "Collection de portraits de grands hommes" in 1792. The engravings have moisture damage and stains.

Group of Four Engravings

From the Story of Romeo and Juliet

Engravings by Domenico Landini, watercolor. The four scenes tell some episodes of the story of Romeo and Juliet, albeit told in a different version from the original Shakespearean text. The engravings are presented in contemporary frames.

Claudio Bernacchi

Glimpse of Church with Sellers 1858

Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated below. The pretty watercolor portrays a glimpse of the city at the entrance to a church, where street vendors have set up their lively stall. Few biographical data of the Lombard painter Claudio Bernacchi are known, but his name often appears in the second half of the 19th century as a painter and architect in the creation of Milanese works (such as the Pavilion built in 1857 on the Loreto square on the occasion of the entry into Milan of the Austrian Emperor Francesco Giuseppe and his wife), as well as as a teacher of ornaments at the Brera Academy. The painting is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century, with some shortcomings.

Female portrait

Pencil on paper. Effective portrait of a lady, with beautiful rendition of the chiaroscuro obtained in pencil. It is presented in a coeval gilded frame.

Ferdinand Kobell

Etudes d'Après Nature

Group of twelve etchings, presented in a hardcover notebook. From the catalog raisonné of Kobell's works, published in 1822 by the Baron of Stengel, it is also possible to recover the titles of the individual engravings, which depict figures from popular life. The first also has the title: "Etudes d'après nature, dessinées et gravées par Ferdinand Kobell, ..." (Live studies, drawn and printed by Ferdinand Kobell), with the Parisian places of sale listed below. Below are the titles of the other figures, in the order of presentation of our collection: Return from the market, The beggars, The messengers, The stonecutter (sculpture seller), The brush seller, The vegetable seller, The hat seller, The second-hand dealer (seller of prints), The farmer at the market (sleeping), The seller of used clothes, The blind man.