MOLDURA Em madeira entalhada, pintada e dourada "elementos vegetalistas". Séc. XVII/XVIII. Pequenas falhas e defeitos. Dim: 65,5x45 cm.

Emil Löwenthal, Little Cipollaro Roman boy in traditional costume, offering a bunch of onions for sale in his left hand; the onion is an ingredient in many traditional Roman dishes; between the Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano and the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme was the hill Monte Cipollaro, where onions and garlic were grown, the street vendor who sold them was called "Cipollaro", Löwenthal, who visited Rome to study, Löwenthal, who visited Rome for study visits, probably gives an impression of contemporary popular Roman market life and was inspired by this cheeky young Cipollaro, in part very fine painting, alternating between glazed and slightly impastoed application of colour, oil on canvas, later mounted on wooden panel, 2nd half 19th cent. Half 19th cent, signed and inscribed "E. Löwenthal" and "Roma" on the lower left, labelled "Eri[c]? Cipollar", label with information on the artist's biography from Thieme-Becker on the reverse, minor retouches and in need of cleaning, in a magnificent Art Nouveau frame, folded dimensions approx. 62 x 50 cm, artist's information: German-Jewish portrait, genre and genre painter Jewish portrait, genre a. history painter Jewish portrait, genre and history painter (1835 Jarotschin to 1896 Ems), pupil of Carl Steffeck in Berlin, study visits to Venice and Rome, 1860/84 at the Berlin academic exhibition and in the Posen Museum, in the Akademie di San Luca in Rome and in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, prizewinner of the Michael Beer Foundation, also the target of anti-Semitic hostility during the phase of the anti-Semitic petition and the Bilder- und Kulturkampf, source: Thieme-Becker and Internet.