Antique Lombard Chimney Walnut Mercury Mirror XIX Century - Lombardy First Quarter 19th Century

The Joys of Mother

Oil on canvas. Early 1900s. The painting reproduces in rather detail the work of the same name painted in 1866 ca. by the Emilian painter Gaetano Chierici, an artist who became famous for a large production of scenes of peasant life, captured in rustic interiors, interpreted through an intimate sentimental adhesion and a clear formal realism, which tell of a small happy and always serene world, often joyful despite poverty, because it is devoid of any intent of social denunciation, but rather representative of the happy conception of family that the artist had. These paintings of his were so successful with the bourgeoisie of the time that they were replicated several times by the artist's own workshop and subsequently also by other painters. Chierici almost always set the scene inside a humble peasant kitchen, full of objects described in minute detail, populated by children intent on their daily activities, by adults who watch them happy and amused: in this scene set in a poor room, a woman sitting spinning, looks smiling tenderly amused at her two little children, the eldest who, standing, steals the pacifier from the little one lying on the floor on a bed of blankets, who stretches out his little hands towards his object of pleasure. The work, in the first canvas, is presented in a carved and gilded wooden frame from the late 19th century.

The Mask

Oil on canvas. The painting reproduces in rather detail the work of the same name painted in 1869 by the Emilian painter Gaetano Chierici, an artist who became famous for a large production of scenes of peasant life, captured in rustic interiors, interpreted through an intimate sentimental adhesion and a clear formal realism, which tell of a small happy and always serene world, indeed often joyful despite poverty, because devoid of any intent of social denunciation, but rather representative of the happy conception of family that the artist had. These paintings of his had such success with the bourgeoisie of the time, that they were replicated several times by the artist's own workshop and subsequently also by other painters. Chierici almost always set the scene inside a humble peasant kitchen, full of objects described in minute detail, populated by children intent on their daily activities, by adults who watch them happily and amused: here we see the child who suddenly enters the kitchen, wearing a grotesque mask on his face and thus frightening his little sister, who abandons her food to run and cling to the skirts of her mother, intent on the hearth, who scolds her son brandishing the ladle. The work is presented in a carved and gilded wooden frame from the late 19th century.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Pair of chairs supported by wavy legs ending in a curl, are carved with baroque-style rocaille motifs; partially lacquered and gilded, the seat and the raised and shaped backrest are padded.

Italy, Late XIX - Early XX Century

Neo-Renaissance desk supported by turned uprights connected by also turned crosspieces, there are two drawers in the under-top band and the same number in the backsplash, framing the central document compartment. Decorated with carvings with neo-Renaissance style motifs.

Italy, Late XIX - Early XX Century

Single bed in blue lacquered wrought iron, Italy, late 19th - early 20th century. Structure composed of turned elements alternating with spheres.

Italy, Late XIX - Early XX Century

Pair of single beds in lacquered wrought iron, Italy, late 19th - early 20th century. Structure composed of turned elements alternating with spheres.

Italy Second Half 19th Century

Planer with double adjustment.

Europe, Late XIX - Early XX Century

Pair of porcelain bouquet vases with golden decorations with plant motifs. In the center, female bust surrounded by flowering twigs.

Courtship at the Well 1873

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. Haier was a Viennese painter and photographer, but lived for a long time in the Czech Republic. His pictorial production includes portraits and many genre scenes, set like this one in the Czech rural environment. We have a seller of jars, transported on the back of his donkey, who entertains himself at a well in amorous conversation with a girl, who in the meantime offers a tuft of grass to the docile beast. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Italy Late XIX - Early XX Century

Pair of armchairs supported by legs, the front ones ending with carved "claw and ball" feet, curved armrests as well as the open backrest; in walnut with maple fillets, the seat is padded.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Charles X nightstand supported by feet, the front ones of which are vase-shaped and decorated with carvings, on the front it has a door hidden by two fake drawers, surmounted by a flap door; the upper surface was originally openable, but the mechanism was blocked later. In walnut, it is decorated with characteristic inlays and maple fillets.

Oil on canvas. The painting looks at the similar work by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), datable around 1560-70 and now preserved in the Prado Museum, of which our painting takes the composition of the figures, changing the entire background and the clothing of the characters. Veronese's work was so successful that it was replicated by his own workshop, with numerous variations: our work probably derives from one of these copies, replicated at a later time. The episode depicted is narrated in the biblical book of Exodus and tells of the finding of the little Moses, left by his mother in a basket along the banks of the Nile River, to save him from the massacre of the children of Israel perpetrated by the Pharaoh; the Pharaoh's daughter, who went to the river with her entourage, finds him and saves him, adopting him. The figures in the scene are depicted in eighteenth-century clothing, in particular the princess' dress stands out for its richness and sumptuousness; the only exotic element is the presence of a colored servant in the retinue, while the background also refers to a landscape of northern Europe, with thick woodland vegetation. The painting, restored and relined, is presented in an 11th century frame.