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Description:
Giuseppe Costantini (Italian, 1844-1894)
Scene Popolare all'Arco di Tito
Signed "Costantini" l.l., titled and dated "...1870 circa" in a handwritten label from Nardecchia, Rome, affixed to the frame backing.
Watercolor on paper, sight size 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (49.0 x 37.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Rippling, minor surface losses at edges of the composition at u.l., l.r., and c.l., not examined out of frame.
N.B. The Nardecchia family has been in the business since the 1950s selling 19th-century prints, old photographs, and watercolors that depict Rome in centuries past. (http://www.nardecchiastampe.it/%20info@nardecchiastampe.it)
Estimate $200-250
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Giuseppe CostantiniStuart Slavid
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European Furniture & Decorative Arts
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