About GALLERIA MARLETTA
Galleria Marletta is in the perfect meeting point between art and antiques: the Pitti Palace-the former residence of the Grand Duke and the King of Italy and today a treasure chest of seven museums-and Via Maggio-a historic street of Florence chosen as a showcase for the most prestigious antiques from the nineteenth century through today. It was founded in 1958 by an art and antique dealer and restorer whose passion and curiosity continues through his son. The search for quality and uniqueness of the works is our main goal and the results of which are honored by nation...Read More
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Featured Pieces
19th-century romantic figurative portrait of a man, oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm, framed 77 x 65. The painting is unsigned and comes with an expert appraisal by Silvestra Bietoletti, who attributes it to the Russian painter Karl Pavlovic...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Romantic mythological figurative painting from Florence, oil on canvas
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
In Florence in 1820, Bezzuoli was decorating a room in the Pucci family palace for Marquis Orazio Emilio Pucci, painting three scenes from the love story of Angelica and Medoro using...
Category
1810s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative painting: portrait of a noblewoman in the Neoclassical Empire style of Tuscany
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 97 x 74.5 cm; framed dimensions: 117 x 94 cm
As stated in the inscription affixed to the column of the musical instrument in the years following the painting’s creatio...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Florentine Romantic religious figurative painting of a man
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Oil painting on cardboard, 41 x 57 cm; framed dimensions: 58 x 74.5 cm.
This “Nudo riverso” is undoubtedly a study—highly polished and rendered with striking naturalism—of the figure...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paperboard, Oil
Figurative painting, female portrait, music, Italian Romanticism, 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Oil painting on canvas, 89 x 75 cm; framed dimensions: 109 x 94 cm. The extraordinary quality and distinctive stylistic features of this enchanting portrait clearly point to Giuseppe...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Italian Neoclassical figurative painting depicting mythology and history
By Vincenzo Camuccini
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 41 x 65.5 cm; framed, 60.5 x 82 cm […] depicts the episode already portrayed in painting—as in the magnificent painting by Pietro da Cortona housed at the Louvre—of th...
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Italian Neoclassical figurative drawing of a female portrait
Located in Florence, IT
Drawing in black pencil and red chalk on paper, 283 x 222 mm, with frame 60,5x 51 cm
The drawing depicts a woman's face turned to the left, with idealized features drawn from class...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
18th-century French terracotta figurative portrait bust
Located in Florence, IT
LOUIS-PIERRE DESEINE
(Paris 1749–1822)
Portrait of a maiden
c. 1790
terracotta, 30.5 x 22.5 x 19 cm
Deseine explicitly mentions the portrait of the Dauphin […]
Our little girl's h...
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
19th-century Italian realist genre scene figurative painting
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 57 x 43.5 cm; framed dimensions: 95 x 81 cm. Signed “LBusi” in red with a brush in the lower left corner.
Many of the characteristic features of his art are present he...
Category
1870s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of female mythological busts in the French Neoclassical style from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Height without the base: 15.5 cm. The meticulous modeling of the figures’ skin tones, accompanied by a skillful use of sculpting tools such as the styletto—which, through repeated pr...
Category
1810s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Small 19th-century mythological earthenware objet d'art figurine
By Giovanni Volpato
Located in Florence, IT
This motif, still in the Rococo style, is based on a design by the painter Stefano Tofanelli (Nave/Lucca 1752 – Marlia/Lucca 1812)¹—a pendant to the work *Cupid in the Act of Shootin...
Category
Early 1800s Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
18th-century Florentine Rococo mythological figurative painting, oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
[…] mistakenly identified with Apollo, the god associated with classical Greco-Roman worship, who is usually depicted with a laurel wreath on his head and holding a zither—or sometim...
Category
Early 1700s Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
More About GALLERIA MARLETTA
19th-century romantic figurative portrait of a man, oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm, framed 77 x 65. The painting is unsigned and comes with an expert appraisal by Silvestra Bietoletti, who attributes it to the Russian painter Karl Pavlovic...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Romantic mythological figurative painting from Florence, oil on canvas
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
In Florence in 1820, Bezzuoli was decorating a room in the Pucci family palace for Marquis Orazio Emilio Pucci, painting three scenes from the love story of Angelica and Medoro using...
Category
1810s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative painting: portrait of a noblewoman in the Neoclassical Empire style of Tuscany
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 97 x 74.5 cm; framed dimensions: 117 x 94 cm
As stated in the inscription affixed to the column of the musical instrument in the years following the painting’s creatio...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Florentine Romantic religious figurative painting of a man
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Oil painting on cardboard, 41 x 57 cm; framed dimensions: 58 x 74.5 cm.
This “Nudo riverso” is undoubtedly a study—highly polished and rendered with striking naturalism—of the figure...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paperboard, Oil
Figurative painting, female portrait, music, Italian Romanticism, 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Oil painting on canvas, 89 x 75 cm; framed dimensions: 109 x 94 cm. The extraordinary quality and distinctive stylistic features of this enchanting portrait clearly point to Giuseppe...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Italian Neoclassical figurative painting depicting mythology and history
By Vincenzo Camuccini
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 41 x 65.5 cm; framed, 60.5 x 82 cm […] depicts the episode already portrayed in painting—as in the magnificent painting by Pietro da Cortona housed at the Louvre—of th...
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-century Italian Neoclassical figurative drawing of a female portrait
Located in Florence, IT
Drawing in black pencil and red chalk on paper, 283 x 222 mm, with frame 60,5x 51 cm
The drawing depicts a woman's face turned to the left, with idealized features drawn from class...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
18th-century French terracotta figurative portrait bust
Located in Florence, IT
LOUIS-PIERRE DESEINE
(Paris 1749–1822)
Portrait of a maiden
c. 1790
terracotta, 30.5 x 22.5 x 19 cm
Deseine explicitly mentions the portrait of the Dauphin […]
Our little girl's h...
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
19th-century Italian realist genre scene figurative painting
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 57 x 43.5 cm; framed dimensions: 95 x 81 cm. Signed “LBusi” in red with a brush in the lower left corner.
Many of the characteristic features of his art are present he...
Category
1870s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of female mythological busts in the French Neoclassical style from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Height without the base: 15.5 cm. The meticulous modeling of the figures’ skin tones, accompanied by a skillful use of sculpting tools such as the styletto—which, through repeated pr...
Category
1810s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Small 19th-century mythological earthenware objet d'art figurine
By Giovanni Volpato
Located in Florence, IT
This motif, still in the Rococo style, is based on a design by the painter Stefano Tofanelli (Nave/Lucca 1752 – Marlia/Lucca 1812)¹—a pendant to the work *Cupid in the Act of Shootin...
Category
Early 1800s Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
18th-century Florentine Rococo mythological figurative painting, oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
[…] mistakenly identified with Apollo, the god associated with classical Greco-Roman worship, who is usually depicted with a laurel wreath on his head and holding a zither—or sometim...
Category
Early 1700s Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil