A PAIR OF CASTELLI DATED RECTANGULAR PLAQUES painted by Saverio Grue, one with a cowherd with a donkey and a goat beside a gatehouse on a river estuary flanked by ruined buildings, the other with travellers on horseback in a similar wooded river landscape, both with rocks in the foreground, the first signed S.G.P. 1749, the second signed S.G. and 1748(?) (edges very slightly trimmed, chipping to underside, the second with a minute rim chip to the left edge) 1749
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A PAIR OF CASTELLI DATED RECTANGULAR PLAQUES painted by Saverio Grue, one with a cowherd with a donkey and a goat beside a gatehouse on a river estuary flanked by ruined buildings, the other with travellers on horseback in a similar wooded river landscape, both with rocks in the foreground, the first signed S.G.P. 1749, the second signed S.G. and 1748(?) (edges very slightly trimmed, chipping to underside, the second with a minute rim chip to the left edge) 1749
17.5cm. x 32.5cm. and 32cm. (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. two plaques, one by the same hand sold by Christie's Geneva, 22 April 1970, lots 207 and 208