Luigi Tarantoni late19th/early 20th century A Roman framed micromosaic plaque Italy, late 19th century

signed lower left Tarantoni / Roma

Gabriel, Jeanette Hanisee, Micromosaics in the Gilbert Collection, Philip Wilson pub., London, 2000, p. 289

Overall in good condition with no visible loss or restoration to tesserae. Frame not original.
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It is firmly beleived that Tarantoni took his images from the genre and Orientalist painter Enrico Tarenghi (Rome 1848-1938). Although this genre painter worked principally with 0rientalist subject, many peasants and cavalier walking on a road are recorded