I talian school 18 th C entury
21. Village scene: A wedding party
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
230 x 140 mm
Inscribed in brown ink lower left: Mastelletta
The old attribution to Mastelletta, who comes from Bologna, dying in 1655 is untenable as this, to us is eighteenth
century and almost certainly by an artist of the Venetian school.
We see here a wedding party, with at left, the bride and groom seated at the table with two musicians standing
behind them playing their instruments. Figures are dancing in the centre background and in the right foreground
a group of figures with a dog look on.
( GG )