Ettore Simonetti (ITALIAN, 1857–1909)
Lot 3 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

Ettore Simonetti (ITALIAN, 1857–1909)

The connoisseur

Closed29 April 2019

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GBP 31,250

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Ettore Simonetti (ITALIAN, 1857–1909)
The connoisseur
signed and inscribed 'Ettore Simonetti/Roma' (lower right)
watercolour and black ink on paper
21 x 30 in. (53 ½ x 76.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 1954, lot 16 (39gns 18s).
Acquired at the above sale by S. Moss Esq.
with Richard Naworth, Blackburn.
Anonymous sale; Bonham's, Dubai, 13 May 2010, lot 91.
Acquired from the above by a private collector.

Specialist note

The Italian Orientalists specializing in watercolour all worked in close proximity to one another on the Via Margutta in Rome. The group included Giuseppe Aureli, Giulio Rosati and Enrico Tarenghi.
Ettore Simonetti was a highly accomplished painter, who created compositions from a mixture of photographs, props and his own imagination, often varying the same composition or executing the same composition in two different mediums.