Two paintings
 

In the family quite well-known artist bought two small works, apparently, Western authors.
Can anyone have information on these artists.

Paper on cardboard, oil.
On the back signed.

A.
26 x43 cm

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Two.
See 43h29

2.
43h29 see

On the back of the first image - A. Celesti - that is, Andrea Celesti ( 1637 - 1712) . Capella della Madonna della Pace
On the back of the second - A. Molinari - that is, Antonio Molinari ( 1655 - 1704) . Pieta
Given the fact that they have signed an absolutely identical handwriting and executed on paper + sign Acad. D2. (maybe some kind of Academy of Arts and inventory designation ? ? ), I would suggest that this is some kind of educational materials (or student work ), which represent the product of these two Italian masters of the Baroque period .

Andrea Celeste (Celesti, Andrea). Born in 1637 in Venice , died , probably in 1712 in Garden . The student Matteo Pontsoie . He worked in Venice, near Breshna and elsewhere North . Italy. Known for his painting ( 1675 ) " The phenomenon of the Madonna to St. Luke " in the church of SS. Giovammi e Paolo. The very picture of ( now lost ) has been highly appreciated by his contemporaries. Fragonard , wrote in a letter " that the artist is one of the best among those who now works in Venice ." In 1681 he was awarded the doge Alvise Contarini, the title of knight. According to legend, after the annual public exhibition at the Piazza San Marco, A. Celesti was forced to flee from Venice, because of the anger of the same Doge Contarini , whom he portrayed with donkey ears