Modern Painting Signed Giuseppe Amisani Portrait of an Officer '900 - Portrait of an Officer

The Morning of the Roses

Oil on canvas. This is a copy, with minor variations, of the famous painting by Giovanni Giani, currently housed at the Quirinale Palace in Rome (purchased in 1906 by Queen Margherita). The work depicts a young woman in white in a moment of suspended expectation, sitting on a windowsill in the garden, surrounded by flowering rose bushes. The figure evokes a delicate and melancholic atmosphere, representing a symbol of expectation, purity, and youth. The work is an example of the Verist-Art Nouveau style of the Piedmontese artist Giani. Our large-scale painting recreates the strong decorative impact of the original. It is presented in an early 20th-century frame.

The Little Girl and the Sheep

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Cesare Laurenti was a multifaceted artist, highly influential in the history of applied arts in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from easel painting to mural decoration, sculpture, illustration, architecture, engraving, monumental ceramics, restoration, technical experimentation, and the antiques trade. His early work was influenced by Domenico Morelli, whose pupil he was in Naples; some of his rural scenes, featuring shepherdesses and flocks, such as the one presented here, are inspired by a realist taste. His artistic career later shifted toward a more symbolist style, experimenting with various artistic techniques. The work is presented in a period frame.

Christ the Worker ca. 1950

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right F. Venzo SJ (Societas Jesu, the motto of the Jesuits). This is a work by the Jesuit friar Mario Venzo, a Venetian painter who, after painting during his bohemian youth in Paris, devoted himself to monastic life in 1940, while continuing to paint. This work depicts a young worker in the foreground, inside a modern artisan's workshop, his head surrounded by light: this is likely a modern projection of the young Jesus at work in his father's workshop. The style of the work harks back to Venzo's pictorial period before 1953, the year after which his work became more vibrant with bright, vivid colors and a more stylized figure, while still often focusing on sacred subjects. The work is presented in a frame.

Sledding on the Snow

Tempera on cardboard. Signed lower left. Russian artist Egorov has made a name for himself with his views of the Russian winter countryside, blanketed in snow and often animated by horse-drawn sleighs carrying villagers. The work is framed.

Tempera on cardboard. Wide view of a valley crossed by a Roman aqueduct spanning a stream; mountain peaks in the background, while in the foreground a woman and her child walk along the path. The work is part of a large body of Italian landscapes, here likely from central Italy, created for tourism. 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.

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.

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.