From 16th to 19th century Old Masters

Roman School, 17th century
Navy with figures
Oil on canvas
ext. 46,4x62,2 in., int. 39,3x54,7 in
We are dealing with a work of great breadth, where the depth of the landscape is rendered with impeccable sfumato, which allows us to catch a glimpse of a seaside town a

Alessio De Marchis (Naples, 1710 ca - Perugia, 1752)
River landscape with figures
Oil on canvas
ext. 61,4x81,8 in., int. 50,7x71,4 in
The Neapolitan artist Alessio Puciollo De Marchis received his first painting education in Rome in the workshop of Pieter Philip Roos, better k

Salvator Rosa, follower of (Naples, 1614 - Rome, 1673)
The healing of the blind man born and the healing of the cripple
Oil on slate
ext. 27,3x27,3 in., int. 20,8x21 in
This pair of paintings on slate depicts two crucial miracles: the healing of the blind man by Jesus and the healing of the cripple by his apostl

Antonio Zanchi (Este, 1631 - Venice, 1722)
Lot and a daughter
Oil on canvas
ext. 53,1x56,6 in., int. 47,2x44 in
A noteworthy experience in seventeenth-century Venetian painting was that of the so-called 'tenebrosi' painters: they sought to interpret Caravaggesque lum

Pietro Domenico Olivero (Turin, 1679 - Turin, 1755)
Pair of country scenes in front of an inn
Oil on canvas
ext. 28,5x34,8 in., int. 24,4x30,7 in
The most significant merit of this artist was that of being a lucid, appreciated, and ironic interpreter of Piedmontese society in the first half

Attr. to Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch 1664 - Milan 1736)
Peasant with a mousetrap
Oil on canvas
ext. 50x75,9 in., int. 42,5x68,1 in
What we know about Giacomo Francesco Cipper can largely be deduced from the distribution of his works in Italy and

Bartolomeo Torreggiani (Naples, ? - Rome, 1675?)
Landscape with figures
Oil on canvas
ext. 22,4x26,7 in., int. 21,6x18,1 in
Little has come down to us of the biography and works of Torreggiani, who is said to be a pupil of Salvator Rosa, thanks to whom he is known as 'de

Neapolitan School, late 17th century
Still life with flowers and architecture
Oil on canvas
ext. 58,6x90,1 in., int. 51,5x83 in
The composition of this canvas is prosperous and varied: in a single composition, all the iconographic choices made by the still life genre of the seventeenth ce

German painter, 18th century
Lion biting dog
Oil on canvas
ext. 17.3x20.4 in., int. 13.1x16.3 in
The genre of animal painting developed from the 17th century onwards as an integral part of landscape painting, but, as with human figures, animals were often painted

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Viterbo, 1610 - Viterbo, 1662)
Allegory of Winter
Oil on canvas
ext.52,3x45,2 in., int. 46,4x38,1 in
First a pupil of Domenichino and then of Pietro da Cortona, the Viterbese Francesco Romanelli was in Rome - according to the sources - fr

Salvator Rosa (Naples, 1614 - Rome, 1673)
Battle
Oil on canvas
17,3x21,2 in
Knowing the biography of the artist, it would be natural to assume that this battle between swordsmen on horseback belongs to the period of the artist’s early training, given the s

Workshop of Francesco Fracanzano (Monopoli, 1612 - Naples, 1656)
Memento Mori
Oil on canvas
24,4x19,6 in
Francesco Fracanzano moved to Naples at a very early age to join the workshop of one of the most renowned painters of the time: Jusepe de Ribera. Initially,