Pair of Italian "Devotionals"

Unknown (Italian)

Medium

the larger example with a foil-lined perimeter, set on a Paris green ground and decorated with rolled paper details in the sky, the pediment supported on Corinthian columns with saints memorialized on the walls, the center with a giltwood altar table and altar sticks, over a reliquary, in a walnut-veneered frame, and the smaller example composed of cut paper work painted with watercolor and bead work, the center decorated with St. Catherine, framed with cut paper work, and the four corners decorated with vignettes from her life, in polychrome bead work

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Paintings