Pietro Colonna Art

French painter (c. 1815) - Portrait of a gentleman, probably Napoleon in exile on the island of S. Elena. 109 x 89 cm without frame, 139.5 x 119.5 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in ...

after HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER 1497 – 1543 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WARHAM Oil on wood panel, laid to canvas Image size: 38 x 35 inches (89 x 71 cm) Hand made period style frame The hand...

Inscribed, reverse: Fr Brina Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. Francesco Brina was one of the “Studiolo” painters, responsible for the panel of Neptune and Amphitrite in F...

This early 20th-century oil on canvas is a study of an altarpiece by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which he produced for the church of Sint-Peter...

Silvestro Noselli (Raveo 1696 - Udine 1777) - Portrait of Giovanni Leonardo Scala in 1762. 88 x 67 cm without frame, 96 x 75 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in an antique carved wooden frame...

Giulio Benso (Genoa 1592 - 1668) The Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple Oil on canvas, 121 x 170 cm - with frame 141 x 191 cm Nineteenth-century shaped and gilded wooden fram...

Giovan Battista Beinaschi (Fossano, 1636 - Naples 1688) Saint Bartholomew Oil on canvas, cm. 96 x 71,5 – with frame cm. 108 x 86 Shaped and gild...

Pietro Bardellino (Naples, 1731 – Naples, 1806) Mary Magdalene Oil on canvas, cm. 75 x 60 – with frame cm. 97 x 82 Antique shaped and carved wooden frame Publications: unpublished T...

Sebastàn de Llanos Valdès (circa 1605-1677) testa di santo martire Olio su tela, cm 50,5x72,5 Non vi sono dubbi in merito all’autografia del dipinto che spetta a Sebastian de Llanos y Valdes (1616-1677), come testimonia l’ iscrizione frammentaria posta nel margine inferiore destro della composizione. Il pittore spagnolo fu allievo di Herrera il Vecchio (1576-1656), poliedrico artista suo conterraneo, abile oltre che nel dipingere anche nella lavorazione del bronzo e nel campo della medaglistica. Nella famosa bottega dell’ Herrera, cui viene attribuito il ruolo di fondatore della famosa Scuola di Siviglia, gravitarono anche il tredicenne Velasquez, che vi rimase per un intero ano, e Ignacio de Riarte. Nel nostro dipinto raffigurante la testa...

17th century, old master painting, oil on canvas, "The rest with the horses". Relined canvas. The stretcher was also renewed once. The painting is rather dark, like i.a. on photo n...

Provenance: Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, Draycott Park, Wiltshire, England. Henry Doetsch, London; his sale, Christie’s, London, 22–25 June 1895, lot 251, as “Luis De Morales, (called El Divino): Virgin and Child, Panel–6 ⅝ in. by 5 ¼ in. / Painted under the influence of Correggio and Parmeggiano / From the Collection of Earl Cowley / The Companion to No. 250 [Luis de Morales: Salvator Mundi]; sold for £10-10 to F. Murray [Fairfax Murray?]. Charles Butler of Warren Wood Hatfield; his sale, Christie’s, London, 25–26 May 1911, lot 166, as “Luis de Morales / The Madonna and Child / Small half-length figure of the Madonna, in red and blue dress, holding the Infant Saviour, who places His arms round her neck / On panel, 6 ½ in. by 5 ¼ in. / From the Collection of Earl Cowley / From the Collection of Henry Doetsch, Esq., 1895 / Exhibited at the Exhibition of Spanish Art, New Gallery, 1895-6.” Charles Brummer, Paris. Bruno Meissner, Zurich. Private Collection, South Germany. Exhibited: “Exhibition of Spanish Art,” New Gallery, London, 1895–1896, no. 132, as Luis de Morales. “Small half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Infant Christ in her arms; He places His arms around her neck. Copper [sic] 6 ½ x 5 ½ in. / Lent by Charles Butler, Esq.” This precious panel painting is a newly identified work by Alonso Sánchez Coello, best known in his role as court portrait painter to Philip II but distinguished as well through his relatively rare religious paintings. In those works his indebtedness to Italian masters, such as Parmigianino, Correggio, and Luca Cambiaso...

Signed and dated, lower left: Louise Hersent/ 1823 Provenance: Private Collection, Chicago, by 1996 Private Collection, Florida This charming portrait of a young boy is the work of Louise-Marie-Jeanne Hersent, a little-known woman artist of the French Restoration often identified by her maiden name, Mauduit. While Hersent—as we will call her here following the signature on the painting—has been understudied, the known details of her life and career reveal that she held a privileged position in artistic life in the early nineteenth century in Paris. She exhibited at the Salon from 1810 until 1824, and in 1821 she married the painter Louis Hersent, a successful pupil of Jacques-Louis David who was patronized by Louis XVIII and Charles X. It is likely through her husband’s royal patronage that Hersent’s Louis XIV Visits Peter the Great was purchased for the Royal Collection in Versailles. In 1806, while still Louise Mauduit, she painted a portrait of Napoleon’s youngest sister, Pauline Bonaparte...