A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage most often a human skull

most often a human skull

The generously sized unusual early nineteenth century stripped pine carving in the form of a neoclassical urn

75”The abstract portrait using colour bleeding to produce the portrait of a lady in a red vest top

and surviving from the mid to late nineteenth century

Eugène Mercier was a ‘big’ man with life-size ideas that were also useful for publicity

A Pair of Mid-19thC Italian Provincial School Oil on Canvas Still Lifes of Tulips sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage most often a human skullOrigin: ItalianPeriod: MacchiaioliProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Heights: 26. 25Widths: 21Depths: 1. 5Painted in oils on canvas and presented in moulded and gilded matching frames, the pair of provincial nave works, depicting still lifes of spring flowers, being mainly tulips, sat in masked and fluted urns on ledges, with chrysanthemums and other flowers depicted, surviving from mid nineteenth century Italy. The pictures remain in sound overall