Antique Oil Painting Venice by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti 19th C
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This is a beautiful oil on canvas painting depicting children on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice, by the renowned Venetian artist Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (1834-1912) and signed lower right.
This beautiful landscape captures a striking view of the banks of the Grand Canal, it features three children playing in the foreground and the busy canal scene with sailing boats and gondoliers in the background, in the distance the facades of Saint Mark's, the Doge's Palace, Santa Maria Della Salute and the spiralling tower of the San Marco Campanile complete the painting.
Housed in it's original and beautiful gilt gallery frame.
Several examples of his work have sold at top auction houses, see Christies, Sothebys and Bonhams
Condition:
In really excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 89 x Width 114 x Depth 10 - Frame
Height 55 x Width 80 - Canvas
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 feet, 11 inches x Width 3 feet, 9 inches x Depth 4 inches - Frame
Height 1 foot, 10 inches x Width 2 feet, 7 inches - Canvas
(May 8, 1834 in Venice – December 13, 1912 in Venice) was an Italian painter, mainly of Venetian genre scenes, recalling Bamboccianti life of children and women, as well as sacred fresco work for churches in the Veneto.
Antonio's father, Ermolao Paoletti, was a well-known scholar and writer of Venice. He wrote a much-cited expansive guide to its architecture, monuments, artistic works, and customs. He also wrote and recorded Venetian dialect. He was an engraver and painter and was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
Antonio attended a course in the Accademia as a pupil of Pompeo Marino Molmenti, and as a colleague of the sculptor Antonio Dal Zotto and the Armenian painter and engraver Edgar Chahine.
He displayed in various exhibitions, including Milan in 1872, where he displayed Ecco come va il vino nelle messe; at the 1884 Exhibition of Turin: Flowers for the Holy Virgin and Fa' caro al nonno at the 1884 Promotrice Popolana Venicena; il pesce addenti, and in 1885, Il venditore di pesce.
Among his many frescoes is the main altarpiece depicting the Madonna of the Rosary with St Anthony and St Materno (1863) for the parish church of Melara. Like his father, Antonio also became a professor at the Accademia.
Angelica Kauffman, RA (1741 - 1807)
was a Swiss-born Austrian Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Though born as "Kauffmann", Kauffman is the preferred spelling of her name in English; it is the form she herself used most in signing her correspondence, documents and paintings.
While Kauffman produced many types of art, she identified herself primarily as a history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century. History painting, was considered the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during this time period. Under the direction of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy made a strong effort to promote history painting to a native audience who were more interested in commissioning and buying portraits and landscapes.
Despite the popularity that Kauffman enjoyed in British society and her success as an artist, she was disappointed by the relative apathy that the British had towards history painting. Ultimately she left Britain for the continent, where history painting was better established, held in higher esteem and patronized.
The works of Angelica Kauffman have retained their reputation. By 1911, rooms decorated with her work were still to be seen in various quarters. At Hampton Court was a portrait of the duchess of Brunswick; in the National Portrait Gallery, a self-portrait. There were other pictures by her at Paris, at Dresden, in the Hermitage at St Petersburg, in the Alte Pinakothek atMunich, in Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn (Estonia).
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Our reference: R0001
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