A snuff box with reverse glass painting Giovanni Migliara, Milan, around 1810 - 12. - image-1
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Lot 94 D‡α

A snuff box with reverse glass painting Giovanni Migliara, Milan, around 1810 - 12.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 800 € - 2.000 €
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A snuff box with reverse glass painting
Giovanni Migliara, Milan, around 1810 - 12.

Burr wood, tortoiseshell veneer, glass painted on reverse in opaque and transparent pigments, gilt copper mountings. Unsigned. Moisture damage below the glass. H 1.9, W 8.8, D 5 cm, the painting 3.7 cm x 7 cm.

Born into a noble family in Piedmont, Giovanni Migliara (1785 - 1837) first learned sculpture in the studio of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo. He then studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera under Giocondo Albertolli and began his career as a stage painter at La Scala. Due to a serious illness he was forced to stop all more elaborate works in 1810. During this time he only painted "...small-format pictures (also for boxes), painted vedutas and views" (Thieme/Becker, vol. 24, p. 544). It was only in 1812 that he was able to return to large-format painting. He specialised in architectural views and medieval romanticism. In 1822 he received a professorship at the Brera Academy, and in 1833 he was appointed court painter to King Carlo Alberto of Sardinia.

Provenance

Auctioned by Im Kinsky, Vienna, 2014.