Giosuè Sala, called il Saletta active in Lombardy late 18th - early 19th Century

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

Giosuè Sala, called il Saletta
a) a young couple placing a garland on a cupid seated on a dog on a column;b) three women decorating a column with flowers and a gilded statuette
a) signed and dated on the wooden stretcher: Josuè Sala Mediolanensis Pinxit Anno MDCCLXXXXVI
both tempera on paper, laid down on canvas, on the original wooden stretcher

Catalogue Note

This and the following lot are the work of Giosuè Sala, an artist active in Lombardy in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Fernando Mazzocca has endorsed the attribution to Sala and has noted that the main source of information on this artist is found in Giuseppe Beretta's biography of the Milanese artist, Andrea Appiani. Beretta writes that Appiani's teacher, Carlo Maria Giudici (1733-1804), ran an academy in which young artists, including Sala, participated (see G. Beretta, Le Opere di Andrea Appiani primo Pittore in Italia di S.M.Napoleone, Milan 1848, pp.63-5). Sala is known mainly for a series of portraits of benefactors of the Ospedale Maggiore, Milan executed between 1792 and 1803, and for two signed altarpieces dated 1799 in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Bergamo. Mazzocca points out that these temperas, and Sala's other known works, bear a close similarity with the style of Appiani.