Anna Sofia Palm de Rosa (1859-1924) - Watercolour Spanish Steps, Rome

Description

A very fine watercolour painting by the well-listed Swedish artist Anna Palm de Rosa, depicting de famous Spanish Steps in Rome. In her usual style, this painting illustrates the artist's proficiency in the subject and medium, through her use of colour, attention to detail and balance of the overall composition. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. Presented in a cream card mount and in a simple thin wooden frame. On watercolour paper.

Condition

In fine condition overall, with slight discolouration and small scuffs to the frame.

Size

18.9 x 29.3cm (7.4" x 11.5")
Framed Size: 33.4 x 44.6cm (13.1" x 17.6")

Artist Biography

Anna Sofia Palm de Rosa (1859-1924) was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the late 19th century, de Rosa became one of Sweden's most popular painters with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm. In the 1880s, de Rosa studied under the history painter Edvard Perséus and the landscape painter Per Daniel Holm (1835–1903). In 1885, she travelled to Denmark, where she spent some time in Skagen. There, she painted a memorable picture of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel. At the age of 36, Anna Palm left Sweden, spending the rest of her life in the south of Italy, where she married infantry officer Alfredo de Rosa. During the First World War, Palm de Rosa painted extensively, especially in Baiae on the Gulf of Naples where she spent a year. Her work can be seen at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Gothenburg Art Museum and Uppsala University, as well as at museums in Norrköping and Helsinki.