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The image shows an antique or vintage genre painting featuring an interior tavern or cellar scene with a man and a woman in historical attire, housed in an ornate, heavily carved and gilt frame.
This signature corresponds to Filippo Marantonio, an Italian genre painter active around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialized in academic realism, frequently capturing romanticized, everyday Italian narratives such as lively tavern gatherings, courtship, and rustic domestic scenes.
The presence of this signature confirms the origin of your artwork as part of the 19th-century Italian School of genre painting, a highly popular style among European and American collectors of that era.
Oil painting is on canvas behind glass Ornate frame signed.
Frame
Left corner has section missing and wear and scratches from age.
Painting has not been out of frame.
Has wear from age see all photos.
Size of painting with frame is 21 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches
Frame has glass.Filippo Marantonio (1863–1937) was an Italian portrait, genre, and decorative painter active in Naples around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is primarily recognized for working within the academic tradition, creating realistic and romanticized oil paintings that depicted daily Italian life, religious figures, and character studies.
