Painting Portrait Oil Canvas Italian Genre Scene Man Grand Tour Signed Framed 1880s 1890s portrait_painting

Painting Portrait Oil Canvas Italian Genre Scene Man Grand Tour Signed Framed 1880s 1890s portrait_paintingOn offer late 19th century Italian genre scene depicting jovial peasant man reading an illustrated newspaper while drinking wine. Most likely collected during Grand Tour of Italy c. 1880s 1890s. Rich in regional detail through his dress and style of wine bottle, he emerges from a darkened background and engages with the viewer directly. Highly animated character portrait. Signed lower left, black signature on a black ground. Presented in original

1961-Schweig Gallery

1987-Memorial exhibition

no major losses

1962/3-Beit Hakana "Bezalel"

Porcelain almost perfect -- likely manufacturing flaw to the lower corner of one vases as shown

Highly animated character portrait

This mill pond in Rockport

Could stand a cleaning and there is one small

SIZE: Overall 8

Vermillion linework

but typical wear as shown

with some wear to the paint as shown