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Late 19th Century Gouache - Fishermen on a Mediterranean Shore

Late 19th Century

A fine gouache and watercolour painting by the artist William Carlaw RSW. The scene depicts a seascape with four fishermen handling a large net. The skilful application of colour and...

A vibrant 19th-century gouache painting depicting a detailed daytime view of the Bay of Naples, Italy. The work has been beautifully presented behind glass in an elegant burr maple f...

Neapolitan School 19th Century, Gouache on paper. The Gulf of Pozzuoli & Ponte di Calligola, Naples. Well presented in a black frame with a crisp white mount and inscribed to the low...

A vibrant late 19th century gouache painting depicting a detailed view of Naples from Capodimonte with figures strolling a hilltop path in the foreground. The artwork has been beauti...

Gouache on paper by Neapolitan School, mid-19th century. Not signed, very good condition. Includes a coeval wooden frame cm. 35x30.

Gouache Nealopitane Marine, Italy, 2011, cm.22x33. Lacquered wooden frame. Delicious gouache made in 2011 by an unknown artist, using the method of the ancient masters of the landscape. Gouache paint is a non-permanent, water-based, opaque and opaque paint made opaque with the addition of a chalky white pigment. Invented in Europe in 500, it was initially used to carry out preliminary sketches of large oil works. It is characterized by a great ease of drafting and a lively color rendering, but it requires great skill, certainty in drawing and an extreme speed of execution, as it dries quickly and cannot be retouched. Precisely these characteristics give a particular liveliness and freshness to the works, characterized by light and opaque tones, very different from the glossy compactness of egg tempera and the transparency of the oil. Widely used in canvas paintings and miniatures. The technique was often used by landscape painters, such as Xavier Della Gatta, Pietro Fabris, Alessandro d'Anna...

View in Summer of Napoli, Italy Well executed pleinair painting of a hill over looking the Bay of Napoli, Italy. done at the turn of the century in ...

19th Century Italian Watercolor of Fishing Boats in the Bay of Naples. Charming antique watercolor depicting the Bay of Naples with fishermen and their boats at their daily chores. ...