Tag: Gustavo Simoni
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, GUSTAVO SIMONI’s CHARGING CAVALIERS, with footnotes #95
Sold for £4,000 in February 2019 Gustavo Simoni was born in Rome. From 1861 until 1866 he studied at the Accademia de San Luca where his teachers were Salvatore Betti, Giuseppe Ferrari and Enrico Tarenghi. By 1875, Simoni had become one of the first members of the Società degli Acquarellisti, founded by Ettore Roesler Franz and…
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Gustavo Simoni, THE CARPET SELLER 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 26
Gustavo Simoni, 1846 – 1946, ITALIAN THE CARPET SELLER, c. 1893 Watercolour and pencil on paper 57 by 86.5cm., 22¾ by 34in. Private collection Arab Market Scene is the type of on-site composition that Simoni developed into paintings in his studio from travel sketches in North Africa and the Middle East. Although best known for his…