AN ITALIAN OIL AND STRAW-WORK PICTURE laid down on canvas, with a mounted lady being greeted by beggars upon a rocky path, in an extensive mountainous landscape with classical ruins and an obelisk, adorned with a coat-of-arms beyond, with washer-women working at a classical building, with walled villages with domes and spires in the distance, in a contemporary red and green decorated frame mounted with trailing straw-work foliage, probably Venetian, 18th century | Christie's

Lot 80

AN ITALIAN OIL AND STRAW-WORK PICTURE laid down on canvas, with a mounted lady being greeted by beggars upon a rocky path, in an extensive mountainous landscape with classical ruins and an obelisk, adorned with a coat-of-arms beyond, with washer-women working at a classical building, with walled villages with domes and spires in the distance, in a contemporary red and green decorated frame mounted with trailing straw-work foliage, probably Venetian, 18th century

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AN ITALIAN OIL AND STRAW-WORK PICTURE laid down on canvas, with a mounted lady being greeted by beggars upon a rocky path, in an extensive mountainous landscape with classical ruins and an obelisk, adorned with a coat-of-arms beyond, with washer-women working at a classical building, with walled villages with domes and spires in the distance, in a contemporary red and green decorated frame mounted with trailing straw-work foliage, probably Venetian, 18th century
21in. (53.5cm.) x 27in. (68.5cm)

Lot Essay

Painted in the manner of Zucarelli, the Capriccio's pyramid is probably inspired by that of Celstius in Rome.

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