Modern Painting Signed Cesare Laurenti The Little Girl and the Sheep - The Little Girl and the Sheep

Glimpse of a Village with a Fruit Seller

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. View of a neighborhood crossed by a small bridge over a canal; central to the street is the figure of a fruit and vegetable vendor, sadly awaiting the arrival of customers on the threshold. Paolo Baroni produced both landscape and folk paintings, as well as drawings, caricatures, and decorative works. Traces of repairs are visible on the back of the canvas. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

Portrait of a Lady

Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Celada loved to paint women, both in portraiture and in his figure studies, proposing a firm, classically feminine body, both in its form and in its references to the painting of the past. His painting, whatever the subject—still lifes, portraits, figures—capable of capturing reality in time and space, in a manner that appears detached, analytical, and scientifically precise (colors, reflections, transparencies), yet conveying—rather than total unreality—a great narrative pathos. The portrait of a woman presented here reveals Celada's ability to portray the subject with an almost photographic realism, yet surrounding her with an aura of surrealism, thanks to the monochromatic background devoid of any reference to the surrounding reality. The painting shows signs of previous restoration due to slight tears. Period frame.

Portrait of an Officer

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Giuseppe Amisani established himself as a portraitist of famous and high-ranking figures. Considered late Impressionist, his painting was influenced by the Belle Époque, which led him to use vibrant colors and rapid brushstrokes, yet always with an eye for elegance. The sitter portrayed here is a high-ranking officer, seated, albeit with a very straight and military stance, in a luxuriously furnished living room. The work is framed in period style.

View of the Village at Sunset

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. Gheduzzi was best known for his work as a set designer at the Teatro Regio in Turin, but he also established himself as a landscape painter, painting en plein air in the style of the Rivara school, a Piedmontese imitator of the more famous Barbizon landscape school. This glimpse of a country village, illuminated by the rosy reflections of the sunset sky, exudes a captivating atmosphere. The work is presented in a carved and gilded wooden frame, with some minor losses.

Oil on canvas. Signed at the bottom A. Greppi, but the signature is inconsistent given the period and cannot be attributed to the renowned painter. The scene draws on the 19th-century genre of popular realism, which featured genre scenes with figures in folk costumes, often engaged in folkloric or working poses, often in intimate family moments. In this case, a woman sitting on a meadow in the woods, busy with her sewing, caresses the head of the young man lying before her, perhaps her son. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Gouache on cardboard. View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius erupting, while the fishermen's lives continue as usual! Framed in period style.

Gouache on cardboard. Wide view of the Bay of Naples, taken from the hill north of the city, with a commoner walking along the path. Framed in period style.

Val Vogna

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The back features a label from the 1928 Venice Exhibition. Mountain view of the Val Vogna, a small, wild side valley of the Valsesia. Trained at the Brera Academy under Tallone, Milanese artist Lodovico Zambeletti successfully devoted himself to landscape subjects, for which he expressed a particular sensitivity, although he also painted genre and environmental figures and was an important portraitist. The painting has slight paint loss; it requires restoration. Framed.

Portrait of a Lady

Crayons on cardboard. Signed lower right. Piero Galanti, an artist from Brescia, primarily painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. In his portraiture, Galanti favored depicting his subjects in solemn poses, in keeping with the tradition of official portraiture, taking pleasure in the preciousness of silks and velvets. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Portrait of a Boy

Crayons on cardboard. Signed upper right. Piero Galanti, an artist from Brescia, primarily painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. In his portraiture, Galanti favored depicting his subjects in solemn poses, in keeping with the tradition of official portraiture, taking pleasure in the preciousness of silks and velvets. Contemporary frame.

The Shepherdess

Oil on canvas. A beautiful figure of a young girl in traditional pastoral costume, elegant in her gold-fringed vest, her hat with a peacock feather, her earrings, her water bottle on her belt, and her hooked staff held firmly in her hands: it seems more like a portrait in folk costume than a real figure of the people. Pesenti became famous for his views of interiors, often of churches, but also for genre scenes with popular figures. The painting has been restored in the past. It is presented in a period frame.

City View

Oil on wood. Signed lower center and on the back. Aldo Bressanutti, a Friulian painter and engraver over a century old, has created numerous views of Friulian and Istrian cities, rendered with an initially hyperrealist style that then evolved, starting in the 1970s, into a surrealist approach. This aerial view of a small town likely dates to the 1960s. Despite its faithfulness to real-world geometry, the color palette and illustration-like style stand out. The work is presented in a frame.