Lot 274
  • 274

Italian School

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Italian School
  • La Porta Ticinese, Milan
  • watercolour and gouache with pen and ink on paper

  • 18 by 26cm., 7 by 10¼in.

Literature

Scrittori e architetti nella Milano napoleonica, Milan, 1983, p. 70, illustrated
Pier Paolo Colonna, 'Empire, passionnément: Le néo-classicisme érigé en philosophie', in Architectural Digest. Les Plus Belles Maisons du Monde, no. 11, April 1989, p. 40, illustrated

Condition

Unexamined out of frame and under glass. Apart from some light scuffs and some very light foxing, this work is in good condition and is ready to hang. Held in a gold-painted carved wood and plaster frame.
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