Lot 201: GIANGIACOMO MORETTI BORN 1843 SKETCHES OF FIGURES AND STILL LIFE WITH A STREET SCENE IN NORTH

GIANGIACOMO MORETTI BORN 1843 SKETCHES OF FIGURES AND STILL LIFE WITH A STREET SCENE IN NORTH AFRICA

signed l.l.: GG Moretti

oil on canvas, in its original gilt frame

PROVENANCE

Frederick William Sharon (1862-1915), 323 Fifth Avenue, New York, brother of Florence Sharon, Lady Fermor-Hesketh, recorded in a photograph of his New York house taken by Pach Bros., 935 Broadway, New York, circa 1900;
Thence to his step-daughter Florence Louise Witherspoon Breckenridge who married Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, later 1^st Lord Hesketh, in 1909
CATALOGUE NOTE

The artist was born in Milan where he worked extensively before settling in America.

44.5 by 157.5cm.; 17 1/2 by 62in.