Cipriano Mannucci

Cipriano Mannucci "Italian Village Landscape" Original Oil Painting c.1927

1927

Lajos Szanto (1889-1965) Original Oil Painting c.1930s A bustling market scene. Oil on canvas. Dimensions 30.5" wide x 24.5" high. The frame measures 36.5" wide x 30.5" high. Sig...

Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil Painting C.1920 Original oil on board Dimensions 16" wide x 11" high The distres...

Early 1920s Spanish Village Landscape Oil Painting Mediterranean Plein Air Artist: Manuel Isidor Valle Micolau (1874–1959) Title: Spanish village landscape Date: c.1925 Medium: Oil on cardboard Dimensions: 11.5 × 19 cm (4.53 × 7.49 in) Frame dimensions: 22 × 28 cm (8.66 × 11.02 in) Signature: Signed lower left Condition: Good vintage condition Frame: Included Charming early 20th-century Mediterranean village landscape painted around 1925 by Spanish artist Manuel Isidor Valle Micolau. This small yet atmospheric plein-air composition captures the luminous architecture and open spatial rhythm typical of Catalan and Spanish townscapes of the period. The warm ochre building at left anchors the composition while the distant white houses and terracotta roofs dissolve softly into a quiet horizon under a pale sky. Executed with a fresh and direct brushstroke typical of outdoor painting practice, the work preserves the immediacy and spontaneity of early modern Iberian landscape tradition. The palette balances sandy earth tones with soft greys and Mediterranean light blues, creating a refined decorative presence despite its intimate scale. Works of this type were often painted on location and function today as authentic visual fragments of pre-industrial Spain, highly appreciated by collectors seeking original European atmosphere rather than studio reinterpretations. A refined and elegant example of early 20th-century Spanish plein-air painting. Manuel Isidor Valle Micolau (1874–1959) was a Spanish painter and photographer trained at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and later active in Vic, Catalonia. His work reflects the transition between late academic landscape tradition and early modern plein-air practice in Spain, focusing on architecture, village environments, and atmospheric studies of Mediterranean light. Today his paintings are appreciated for their documentary sensitivity and their connection to the development of early 20th-century Catalan landscape painting. This work relates to the Mediterranean plein-air tradition associated with: Joaquín Sorolla Santiago Rusiñol Modest Urgell Eliseu Meifrèn and early Catalan landscape painters working between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Original early 20th-century Spanish plein-air paintings of this intimacy and authenticity are increasingly difficult to source. Spanish landscape painting Mediterranean village painting Catalan landscape painting plein air oil painting 1920s Spanish painting European townscape small antique oil painting...

Vintage Oil Painting of a Mediterranean Village, Alexander Michael 1975 A framed oil painting depicting a Mediterranean landscape with a golden yellow house with a red tiled roof, s...