Warning x
Lot Details


Luigi Desio

( Italian, active 18th C)

Trompe-l’oeil with a madrigal; Trompe-l’oeil with a female portrait

PRICE SOLD

LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Size Notes:

each

Description:

or LOG IN

Markings:

Greek inscription

Condition:

framed

Provenance:

Private collection, Rome, ,The present works can be compared to a similar composition sold at Finarte in 1991 (sale, 19 November 1991, lot 127; see G. Alberti, Inganni dipinti. Trompe-l’oeil nella Fototeca Zeri, Bologna 2015, pp. 103–111). In one of these two pictures appears a passage from a poem, “Donna che si specchia”, ,by Giovan Battista Marino (Mad. LXXIIII, ,once in the Borghese Collection in Rome (now Louvre, which was rediscovered in 1611. The landscape portions are signed “Perelle”, ,referring to Gabriel Perelle (Vernon

TOP ARTISTS

artist

Max Beckmann

(German , b. 1884 - d. 1950)

artist

Fernando Botero

( Colombian , b. 1932 )

artist

Piero Manzoni

( Italian , b. 1933 - d. 1963 )

artist

Canaletto

( Italian , b. 1697 - d. 1768 )

artist

Pieter Brueghel

(Flemish , b. 1564 - d. 1637)

artist

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

( French , b. 1796 - d. 1875 )

artist

Pablo Picasso

( Spanish , b. 1881 - d. 1973 )

artist

Andy Warhol

( American , b. 1928 - d. 1987 )