Portrait of Luigi Sommariva
Giovanni Beltrami Italian
After a composition by Robert Jacques Louis Lefévre French
This precious piece of pale yellow citrine is cut as an oval cabochon. Into the back, Giovanni Beltrami engraved a small version of Robert Lefèvre’s oil portrait of Luigi Sommariva, son of Count Giovanni Battista Sommariva, who commissioned this work and the cut rock crystal nearby.
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