Pair of Large Watercolors on Paper, by Eusebio Scribante, "Orientalist Scenes," 1800s Era
Splendid pair of large watercolors on paper, depicting two Orientalist scenes, more specifically genre scenes in Calcutta, India during the English colonial period.
The watercolor depicting the dialogue between two men bears the signature, date, and location in the lower left corner.
Framed with two coeval matte gilt wood frames.
SCRIBANTE EUSEBIO
(1864 - 1898)
Painter born May 14, 1864, in Brusnengo, Biella, to Giovanni and Romersa Maria.
He participated in the 1882 General Exhibition of Products from the Biella District with Portrait of S. M. Umberto / (charcoal) and in the 1889 exhibition of the Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Turin with two works.
According to the list of exhibitors at the Turin Promotrice, published on the occasion of the society's first centenary exhibition (1952), the artist was living in Rome in 1889.
He died in Turin in 1898.
Two years after his death, several of his large-scale watercolors were exhibited in the window of the Aimone ceramics and crystal store on Via Umberto (now Via Italia) in Biella.
The newspaper "L'Eco dell'Industria" wrote on that occasion, "The exhibited works represent figures and groups of Indian types reproduced from life during peregrinations made for study purposes in British India, especially in Calcutta."
Measurements: Framed H 145 x W 96 x D 8 / Paper H 119 x W 61 cm;
