£100,000
**** PLEASE NOTE NO LIVE ONLINE BIDDING ON THIS LOT - PLEASE CONTACT THE AUCTIONEERS TO BID ON THIS LOT **** Luigi Cavaliere Moglia (1813-1878)
Pair mosaic pictures on copper
Cumaean Sibyl after the original by Zampiere Domenico in the Galleria Borghese, lady wearing ornate headdress and red shawl seated with viola da gamba, and musical scroll, signed, 37cm x 30cm
The Persian Sibyl after the original by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (known as Guercino) listed in the Musei Capitolini, Rome, seated lady wearing pink and purple satin cape, resting with book inscribed ‘Sibilla Persica’ and writing with feathered quill, signed, 37cm x 30cm,
Moglia won a gold medal at the Great Exhibition of London for his micromosaic ‘The Ruins of Paestum’, the Victoria & Albert museum has a similar mosaic picture by Luigi Moglia entitled ‘Lavinia as Flora’ after Titian’s painting ‘Girl with a Bowl of Fruit’, the mosaic is on loan from the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection, Moglia’s works can be seen in the Royal Collection Trust and Cincinnati Museum of Art, both in ornate gilt scroll decorated frames
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