Oil painting on wood Ettore Cumbo Borgia 1872

This oil painting on wood is the work of Ettore Cumbo (also known as Ettore Cumbo Borgia), a landscape painter born in Messina in 1833 and died in Florence in 1899. Style and period: After an initial training in engineering, he dedicated himself to landscape painting, particularly aligning with the Florentine Impressionist movement and forming connections with the 19th-century Tuscan artistic community. The work, presented in a gilded wooden frame, is an oil painting dated 1872; it depicts a landscape of Rome adorned with ancient ruins, presumably an ancient Roman aqueduct or an archaeological site in the countryside. Signed and dated. Excellent condition.