AFTER CLAUDE LORRAIN, BY ANTONIO SAULINI, MID-19TH CENTURY

The subject here is after a 1648 oil painting, 'Landscape with Dancing Figures' by Claude Lorrain (d. 1682). A smaller mosaic of this subject, attributed to Francesco De Poletti, is illustrated in A. Gabino et al., Roman Mosaic: l'Arte del Micromosaico fra '700 e '800, Rome, 2001, p. 111.

Antonio Saulini is mentioned in a November 8th, 1852 entry in the Archivio della Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro, where he is listed as a mosaicist apprentice at the Vatican Mosaic Studio (see D. Petochi, I Mosaici Minuti Romani, Florence, 1981, p. 71).