Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver but think perhaps he was

but think perhaps he was an end of the day whimsy

It measures 16"x20" and definitely has some age to it

And the painterly glazing--yellow with some drippy green and purple-gray--is just right

and all of the details

Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver but think perhaps he wasA curious one, at least to me, which I understand from the seller would have been made for an Italian opera theatre, portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts. It seems to me that the painting which has some of the feel (and drama!) of an ex voto retablo to me, and also a telenovela! was painted on a very old wooden panel, salvaged from something else, in the top corners of which (my favorite thing, best seen in