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A pair of gouaches of birds, by Carlo Antonio Raineri (Milan 1765-1826)
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- heights 21in.; widths 26 1/2 in. and 26 3/4 in.
- (53.3cm; 67.5 and 68cm)
the gouache over traces of graphite, one depicting a peacock pheasant with a blue bird chasing a butterfly, the other with a blue jay and cuckoo, each within giltwood, glazed frame.
Provenance
Private Collection, Milan
Exhibited
Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1800, Trinity Fine Art, London, 1990, no. 47
Literature
Gli Uccelli dei Raineri, exh. cat., Casalzuigno (Varese), 1994, no. 16, pp. 82-83