Antique 18thC Spanish Colonial Icon Painting Retablo St. Camillus & Christ 1760 Decorative Arts Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache &

Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor painting by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (Пётр Александрович Нилус in French Pierre Nilouss (1869–1943)

the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the Bamboccianti

He created a monumental fireplace for the 1889 Great Paris Exhibition and two vases with Japanese figures for the same event

the drawers with brass lock escutcheons & bail handles

Antique 18thC Spanish Colonial Icon Painting Retablo St. Camillus & Christ 1760 Decorative Arts Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache &Antique 18th Century Spanish Colonial South American retablo, features Saint Camillus De Lellis (San Camilo), Patron Saint of The Sick, Peru, Cusco, circa 1760. This devotional retablo is sensitively painted on copper and housed in a gilt wood frame. The painting depicts a scene of a recumbent figure, presumably Christ, attended by Saint Camillus De Lellis. Christ is wearing white linens, holding a white lit candle to depict the divine light. There is