Ettore Ferrari – Cum Spartaco pugnavit

Ettore Ferrari Rome, 1845-1929 Cum Spartaco Pugnavit 1877 Terracotta, height 36 cm Initialled and dated: “EF 1877” Provenance: Rome, Bruno Mantura collection Bibliography: Bruno Mantura, Ettore Ferrari. Sculture tra il 1867 e il 1880, in Capitolium, XLIX (1974), 7-8, pp. 41-50; Enrico Guidoni, Il gesto della Rivoluzione. Il Bruto di Ettore Ferrari e la linea…

Alberto Martini – Some Words with a Mummy

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Some Words with a Mummy 1908 Pen and Indian ink on paper, 354 x 254 mm Signed and dated in pen, on the border, lower left: ALBERTO. MARTINI / 1908 and in pencil beneath to the right: A. Martini; title in pen lower centre: PETITE DISCUSSION AVEC UNE MOMIE; inscription…

Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot – Grenadier Ă  la Grecque

Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot (Lione 1727-Marore (Parma) 1801) Grenadier Ă  la Grecque 1771 Brown watercolored ink pen on paper, 315 x 250 mm, within coeval Parma frame Provenance: Parma, private collection The drawing, preparatory for one of the etching engraved by Benigno Bossi for the famous Mascarade Ă  la Grecque, emblematically testifies to the spread of the…

Giuseppe Bossi – Aeneas wears his arms rushing into the vain defense of Troy, by now fallen

Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777-Milan 1815)  Aeneas wears his arms rushing into the vain defense of Troy, by now fallen 1795-1800 circa  Pencil, brownish ink pen, grey ink watercolor on paper, 352 x 480 mm On the verso traces of pencil  Provenance: Italy, private collection In dialogue with the models of Canova’s reliefs of Virgilian subjects, during his study sojourn in Rome, the painter-poet verifies the expressive possibilities of the subject of history in relation…

Galliari: gran tempio

Fabrizio Galliari – Great temple dedicated to Bacchus

Fabrizio Galliari (Andorno Micca (BIella) 1709 – Treviglio 1790) Fabrizio Galliari – Great temple dedicated to Bacchus • 1771 matita, matita, penna e acquerello su carta, studio di quadro scenico per Andromeda, dramma per musica di Giuseppe Colla, libretto di Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, rappresentato al Teatro Regio di Torino nel 1771, c130 t. XI

Carlo Romagnoli – Male portrait

Carlo Romagnoli (Rome 1888 -1965) Male portrait 1913 Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 45 cm Signed upper right: C. Romagnoli-/Rome MCMXIII Provenance: Italy, private collection   The Roman artist Carlo Romagnoli trained at the capital’s Accademia di Belle Arti and associated Scuola Libera del Nudo. His debut came early, in 1905 at the Promotrice. From…

David: presentation

Giovanni David – Birth of the Virgin

Giovanni David (Cabella 1743 – Genoa 1790) Birth of the Virgin 1784-1785 Black ink pen, polychrome watercolors, tempera on paper, 507 x 485 mm Provenance: Rome, private collection Executed in pandant with Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, it is presumably the presentation drawing for the commission of the Birth of the Vergin for…