拍品專文
For an extensive account on this artist, see L. de Mauri, L'Amatore di Miniature su Avorio, Milan, 1918, pp. 239-245.
Count Filippo Alberto Giordano delle Lanze, three-quarter length, standing in the white cloak and red cross of the Order of the Holy Grave, in black jacket, trousers and waistcoat, wearing numerous decorations including the badge of the Royal Sardinian Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the breast-stars of the Papal Order of Pius and the Royal Italian Order of the Crown of Italy, holding a plumed black hat in his right hand; interior background with bookcase, chair, table, landscape and portrait miniature hanging on the wall; the sitter's name, coat-of-arms and motto below
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GIUSEPPE GRASSIS (B. 1870)
Count Filippo Alberto Giordano delle Lanze, three-quarter length, standing in the white cloak and red cross of the Order of the Holy Grave, in black jacket, trousers and waistcoat, wearing numerous decorations including the badge of the Royal Sardinian Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the breast-stars of the Papal Order of Pius and the Royal Italian Order of the Crown of Italy, holding a plumed black hat in his right hand; interior background with bookcase, chair, table, landscape and portrait miniature hanging on the wall; the sitter's name, coat-of-arms and motto below
signed 'GRASSIS. G.' (lower right)
rectangular, 8 3/8 x 4¾ in. (213 x 121 mm.), gilt-metal mount within black wood frame
Count Filippo Alberto Giordano delle Lanze, three-quarter length, standing in the white cloak and red cross of the Order of the Holy Grave, in black jacket, trousers and waistcoat, wearing numerous decorations including the badge of the Royal Sardinian Order of St Maurice and Lazarus, the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the breast-stars of the Papal Order of Pius and the Royal Italian Order of the Crown of Italy, holding a plumed black hat in his right hand; interior background with bookcase, chair, table, landscape and portrait miniature hanging on the wall; the sitter's name, coat-of-arms and motto below
signed 'GRASSIS. G.' (lower right)
rectangular, 8 3/8 x 4¾ in. (213 x 121 mm.), gilt-metal mount within black wood frame
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