A MICROMOSAIC PANEL, ROME, EARLY 19TH CENTURY | A micromosaic panel, Rome, early 19th century

representing a riverscape with groups of bathing figures on each bank, gold and blue enamel frame, later metal backing

mosaic in very good conditon, very small losses to enamel and minor traces of restoration in a couple of places along the blue enamel border
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The subject is taken from engravings of a combination of two paintings by Salvator Rosa: Paesaggio con bagnanti, now in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and Mercury and Argus in the William Rockhill Gallery of Art, Kansas City.