Two Framed Watercolor Portraits of Children, Ernesto Levorati. Currently in a private collection, images are from Bonham’s past auction from 2024. Bohanam’s gives the sheet size as 12 x 8″ (30 x 20 cm).
I just came across these two delightful watercolor portraits by 19th century Italian artist Ernesto Levorati by chance.
There is a wonderful delicacy to the softly textural applicaiton of watercolor. It appears to me to be in a dry brush technique, of the painstaking kind used for botanical illustration. It’s hard to be sure. It may just be granulating colors.
Whatever the technique, the end result is a soft, visually engaging paint surface that adds to the soft expressions of the subjects.
I don’t know much about Levorati, but I was suprised to see that the pair sold at auction for just a few hundred dollars.
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