A watercolor on paper painting by Italian artist, Guiseppe Signorini (1867-1932) depicting a Royal Guard or Cavalieri holding a processional spear in his right hand, with his left hand on his hip, a pistol in his belt. He wears green breeches and tunic with a pink vest and lace collar, his shoes with large pink bows, and his hat with a pink feather. While not common knowledge, pink was considered a bold and masculine color in the 19th Century. The gentleman’s face is drawn and painted in nice detail with a mustache and goatee. The painting is signed lower left G. Signorini. The gilt frame has a wooden plaque affixed with the artist’s last name.

The painting site area measures approximately 10 1/4” x 6 3/8” and overall with the gilt frame measures 18 1/4” x 14 1/2”. There is some minor surface cracking on the frame and liner and minor chips as would be expected from age.

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The artist is well known for his watercolor paintings with his high auction record being $40,200 in 2021 for one of his Orientalist works. Below is a biography of the artist from Christie’s New York:

Born in Rome in 1857, Giuseppe Signorini received his artistic education at the Accademia di San Luca, and thereafter joined the studio of Aurelio Tiratelli. The young artist became a master of watercolor very early in his artistic career and honed his skills in this medium throughout his life. Signorini often traveled to Paris to visit the annual salons, and it was during these visits that he became enamored of the work of the Orientalist painters Mariano Fortuny, Ernst Meissonier and Jean-Léon Gérôme. This subject matter was to dominate his oeuvre throughout his career. Signorini was so fascinated by the genre, that he amassed his own collection of Orientalist textiles and objects of Islamic Art.