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38.             ARPE, ANGELO Attributed  1858          

The Brig "Il Doge" in a thunderstorm in the Black Sea

Watercolor on paper, cm 51x62 (inventory Costa n. 32)
 

Known data:

   TYPE:                                              brig
   YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION:     1857
   PLACE OF CONSTRUCTION:    Varazze
   SHIPOWNER:                                Prospero Schiaffino
   CAPTAIN:                                       Prospero Schiaffino

Caption:

        "Thunderstorm Suffered the 9th day of November at 1 hour p. m. by the National Brig "Doge" sold by the Capt. Prospero Schiaffino being in the vicinity of the Gulf of Burgas in the Black Sea 1858"

Notes:

Between the paintings of the Sanctuary of Boschetto, this is probably the most damaged because of a locally restoration executed in the seventies, with heaviest coats of stucco and layer of paints that would have had to cover the damages of the time, but having strongly and in great part irreversibly devastated the original. 

Of what still is readable many reasons induces to think that it could be a matter of a juvenile work of Angelo Arpe like the previous one.