Antique Painting Signed Andreas Dirks Maritime Glimpse XIX Century - Sea Glimpse

Embroidery on silk. The large, elegant champagne-colored silk panel is richly embroidered with a naturalistic motif in the same color, composed of flowering chrysanthemums and bamboo, upon which multicolored birds delicately rest. The embroidery was applied to canvas and framed in a metal frame with legs, serving as a room divider.

Self-portrait

Oil on canvas. Signed on the left. Bergamo-born artist Giovanni Pezzotta established himself primarily as a portraitist, capable of infusing his subjects with expressive spontaneity, yet with a simple style. He created several self-portraits. The painting is presented in an early 20th-century guilloché frame.

Oil on canvas. French school, mid-19th century. The scene, set at the entrance to the grounds of a villa during a romantic sunset, depicts the first meeting between a beautiful young woman, accompanied by her father, and a suitor, who is introduced by the black-clad figure in the center, the matchmaker. The painting is part of the 19th-century historical-literary pictorial movement, which depicted literary episodes in a romantic vein. The figures in this scene wear 16th-17th-century clothing and could be characters from a famous novel. For example, the old father's clothing recalls Pantalone, the Commedia dell'Arte character who tries to force his beautiful daughter Rosaura into a marriage of convenience, a theme widely used in literature. The painting has undergone minor restorations. It is presented in a period frame.

Preparing for the Market

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The scene shows the old farmer sitting smoking a pipe in the kitchen, in front of the burning fireplace, while he watches amusedly as his grandson tries to use the steelyard. On the floor, baskets of vegetables from their garden are being prepared for sale at the market. The work of the Florentine painter Adolfo Dumini features many similar genre scenes, depicting everyday life with vivacity and cheerfulness, and a wealth of detail. The painting is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

Oil on canvas. Northern European School, mid-19th century. In a verdant countryside landscape, near the well with its watering trough, several farmers and wayfarers are stopping with their carts, resting, getting water, and washing clothes. Previously restored and relined in antique style, the painting currently shows damage and slight paint loss. It is presented in a beautiful late-19th-century gilded frame.

Oil on canvas. French school, second half of the 19th century. A sealing wax stamp on the back reads 2Atelier Gustave Courbet". The renowned artist (1819-1877) repeatedly depicted woodland scenes with deer and fawns, but the painting presented here cannot be attributed to him. The intensely realistic work depicts a doe and her calf within a clump of trees in the woods, with light filtering through the branches to create luminous effects. The painting is presented in a beautiful 18th-century frame, lacquered and restored.

Landscape with River and Figures

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Emilio Donnini, a Florentine artist, established himself as a landscape painter from life and marked the transition from a purely romantic interpretation to Macchiaioli realism. He loved to portray especially seascapes rich in romanticism, painting the scenes from life, mostly on his beloved island of Elba. His works are rich in chromaticism with very delicate tones, from a diffuse luminosity that extends from the sky to the surfaces, often water, below with particular brilliance, while the figures that animate the scene are described with rapid brush strokes but at the same time with orderly precision. This landscape view portrays a watercourse in the countryside, crossed by the stump of an ancient bridge; washerwomen are busy with their work on the stony shore. The painting shows traces of restoration. It is presented in a golden frame from the mid-1900s.

Interior with Monk

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Inside a study, with thick stone walls and a vaulted ceiling, simple furniture but a bookcase filled with tomes, a monk sits at his work table, inside a manuscript. Jeno Kemendy, a Hungarian painter and set designer, devoted himself primarily to genre scenes, often set in earlier periods than his own historical period. His expertise as a set designer also shines through in this painting, in the attention to detail of the setting and the man's theatrical pose. The work features slight paint loss. It is presented in a period frame.

Farmhouse with Commoner and Ducks

Oil on panel. Signed and located at Rome lower right. Domenico Pennacchini specialized in genre scenes, often set in ancient Rome, but many with rural subjects, like this work, depicting moments from the daily life of Roman peasants. The work is presented in an early 20th-century frame.

Oil on oval panel. The painting reflects 18th-century pictorial styles: in a broad landscape with mountain peaks in the background, a river flows, flanked by houses; at the center of the scene, a stone bridge spans it, over which several figures walk, while other characters go about their daily tasks on the path or along the river itself. The painting is presented in a contemporary gilded wooden frame.

Oil on canvas. Signed and located on the lower left margin "Roma, Enrico Scifoni" The name of the sitter is cited at the lower left: "Signorina Maria Ciaffi". Scifoni was a Roman artist who was very active as a portraitist between 1870 and 1914. The young woman portrayed is dressed in a dress and hairstyle reminiscent of the fashions of the Empire period. The painting is presented in a 19th-century gilded frame, which requires restoration.

Wood Landscape with Figures, 1883

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. The landscape depicts a stream flowing through a shady coniferous forest; two boys are fishing with rural tools. The atmosphere is filled with light filtering through the thick, green trees. Tristan Lacroix distinguished himself for his naturalist style of painting and rural realism, which focused on the simple life and landscapes of everyday life. The painting is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.