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46.              Anonymous XIX Century 1837         

Ex-Voto by the captain of the brig "Nostra Signora del Rosario"

Watercolor on paper, cm 40x4-5,5                     (inventory Costa n. 5)
 

Known data:

   TYPE:                                             brig
   YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION:    1829
   PLACE OF CONSTRUCTION:   Varazze
   SHIPOWNER:                               Mortola Brothers
   CAPTAIN:                                      Giacomo Schiaffino

Caption:

"Captain Giacomo Schiaffino; Commander of the Brig Our Lady of the Rosary".
Y. 27 Dec.ber 1837".

Notes:

A picture attributable to the Cammillieri exposed in the Maritime Museum of Camogli (Shipsails of Camogli, Genoa 1984, p. 15) reproduces this brig following the wind in front of Marseille, nearly constant background in the paintings of Nicolas Cammillieri. 

Nevertheless this painting remembers the chromatic essence of the Cammillieri also whose rigid composition and execution opens the possibility to other attributive hypotheses.