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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Pair of oval capriccio landscapes with figures by a lake, one with a bridge and buildings, the other with straw huts near the shore and both with boats
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June 2, 05:22 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Palmanova nel Friuli 1762 - 1844 Milan
Pair of oval capriccio landscapes with figures by a lake, one with a bridge and buildings, the other with straw huts near the shore and both with boats
Both tempera on card
200 by 229 mm; 7 ⅞ by 9 in.
Sale, Milan, Porro & Co, 6 June 2006, lot 154;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2010, lot 97;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 5 February 2025, lot 34
These two capricci are typical of Bison. His drawings of this type, which must have been made for sale as independent works, are often executed - as in this case - on card, but are generally rectangular in shape, rather than oval. The evidence of the original drawn borders shows, however, that this pair were always oval in form. Bison seems always to have prepared his card support with a colored ground to smooth the surface, and after finishing the composition drew framing lines of about a centimeter in width around the edges, just as we see here.1
1F. Magani, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Soncino 1993, p. 82, no. 18