Lot 32
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A FRAMED ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PICTURE ENTITLED 'CONTADINE ALL SPIGOLATURA' ('PEASANT WOMEN GLEANING')
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A FRAMED ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PICTURE ENTITLED 'CONTADINE ALL SPIGOLATURA' ('PEASANT WOMEN GLEANING')

BY AUGUSTO SELLINI, VATICAN STUDIOS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRAMED ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PICTURE ENTITLED 'CONTADINE ALL SPIGOLATURA' ('PEASANT WOMEN GLEANING')
BY AUGUSTO SELLINI, VATICAN STUDIOS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The oval scene against a rectangular black marble ground, in stepped ebonised frame, the reverse with partial Vatican Studios paper label
The micromosaic: 6¾ x 5½ in. (17 x 14 cm.); The frame: 12 x 11 in. (30.5 x 27.9 cm.)
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Lot Essay

The source of the present micromosaic depicting two gleaners has been identified as the painting The Young Harvester (1883), by the Spanish artist Maria Jaspe y Moscoso (see Sotheby's, Monaco, 8 December 1990, lot 385). An excerpted micromosaic version of the same subject, showing just the standing figure, is illustrated in J. Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection - Micromosaics, London, 2000, p. 122, no. 63.

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