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Set of four letters from Napoleon-Jerome Bonaparte to the painter Geniole, two are dated August 21 and December 12 [1842], 6 pages in brown ink, recipient address on the back of the sheets, two seals of the sender in part preserved.
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Original gummed print.
This print, depicting the Bay of Naples overlooking the bluish silhouette of Vesuvius, was later added to a set of Italian landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and washings.
Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these prints summarize the stages of the "Grand Tour" of Italy, the obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage to the great achievements of the Renaissance, City views and charming Lombard and Piedmont mountain lakes. The European aristocracy was therefore fond of these prints of good graphic quality enhanced...

Silhouettes pasted on strong paper.
Probably realized in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, silhouettes in shadow were particularly popular at that time. The fascination with these shadow profiles dates back to Antiquity according to Pliny the Elder, whom he considers to be the origin of painting and sculpture in his Natural History (Book XXXV, § 151-152): By using the earth as well, the Butadès de Sicyone potter first discovered the art of modeling portraits of clay; It happened at Corinth, and he owed his invention to his daughter, who was in love with a young man; The latter setting out for the stranger, surrounded in a line the shadow of his face...

Original drawing in pencil, probably from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Portrait of an elderly lady, dressed and dressed in the fashion of the 1820s, curly hair above the ears, separated in the middle of the forehead and enclosed in a cap trimmed with ribbons. The hair; Very worked by the artist, frames a face with simple and severe features.
This drawing is part of a collection of pencil portraits of the Prussian aristocracy made in Rome, collected in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, etchings, drawings, and washings of landscapes and Italian architecture.

Original anonymous watercolor depicting the bay of Palermo inscribed in the lower margin: Palermo .
The rione of Santa Lucia, the historical district of Naples, is depicted as it was in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the Vesuvius spitting smoke at the bottom of the composition. This type of Neapolitan watercolors was popular among wealthy European travelers, who performed the traditional "Tour d'Italia", a pilgrimage through the bucolic landscapes and large cities of Italy.

Original anonymous watercolor of the bay of Messina, inscribed in the bottom margin: Messina .
The coast of Messina in Sicily is depicted here as it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the lighthouse of the town standing out in the middle of the composition, the volcano of Etna in the distance, spitting ashes.
This type of watercolor of Italian and Sicilian port cities (Palermo, Naples ...) was very popular among wealthy European travelers who performed the traditional "Tour d'Italia", a pilgrimage through bucolic landscapes and large cities of Italy...

Original etching signed by Naymiller inc. In the lower left corner and F. Campi acquire. In the lower right corner.
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Made by Milanese architect and artist, famous for his watercolors of Cremona, Milan and Pavia. The etching is executed by Domenico Landini, Italian engraver.
This etching is part of a collection of lacustrine landscapes and views of Italian monuments (Villa d'Este, Duomo of Milan ...) of an album entitled Souvenir of Milan: or Collection of the main views of this city and Of its surroundings published in 1810. Some of these views, which were later collected in an amicorum album among...

Original gummed print.
This print, depicting the Bay of Naples overlooking the bluish silhouette of Vesuvius, was later added to a set of Italian landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and washings.
Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these prints summarize the stages of the "Grand Tour" of Italy, the obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage to the great achievements of the Renaissance and Charming Lombard and Piedmontese mountain lakes. The European aristocracy was therefore fond of these etchings of good graphic quality enhanced by...