Giuseppe Zais, Italian 1709-1784- Gathering of village people outside a...

Giuseppe Zais,
Italian 1709-1784-

Gathering of village people outside a building;

bodycolour heightened with white on laid paper, 21.2 x 31.8 cm.

Provenance:
with Edwin Parsons & Sons, 45 Brompton Road, London.
Private Collection, UK.

Note:
We are grateful to Dario Succi for confirming the attribution of the present lot. Although works by Zais would surely have been popular Grand Tour souvenirs and were no doubt produced by the artist in great numbers, they rarely appear on the market. Indeed, those that do are generally executed in pen and ink. For comparable works in bodycolour by Zais, see Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2022, lot 133.