Lot 198
  • 198

Giovanni Lanza

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Lanza
  • Santa Chiara Church, Naples
  • signed G. Lanza lower left
  • watercolour on paper
  • 49.5 by 70cm., 19½ by 27½in.

Provenance

Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria (1896-1960); thence by descent

Exhibited

Possibly Naples, Biennale Borbonica, 1851

Condition

The artist's sheet has been hinged to a white sheet of paper along its four edges, on the reverse. The artist's sheet is somewhat wavy in the centre and has two small repairs: a 4cm repair along the lower edge (25cm from the lower right corner), and a 2cm one along the left edge (11cm from the lower left corner). The work is glazed, in a simple wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1851.