Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver and others who

and others who

but these six alone represent quite the cast of characters

And a pink satin underside

1950s or so

Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver and others whoA 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