William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
Title: "An Interested Audience". (The Harpsichord Recital).
Signed and inscibed Firenze. Inscribed on the slip with the artist's name and title.
Oil on canvas. In it's very good original gilt gold leaf swept frame.

Size: 21"x 26". Framed size: 31"x 36 1/2". For more info please contact us at:
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He was born and resident in Novara. In 1881 at Milan he exhibited: Paggio del secolo XVI. In 1881 at Rome he exhibited: Fate la carità e In vino laetitia. To other exhibitions he sent: Winter Sun; Dolci ricordi; Il nonno; Adele; Study of a head; A landscaper of Tobacco; and Savoy and Winter Morning. Vendemmia was exhibited at the Brera Academy in 1822.[1] Another painter by the same name was born in Piacenza on April 8, 1826. He was a decorative painter and one depicting quadratura.[2]

Among his works: a quadratura painting inside the house of Dezzopis; a garden in the house of signor Filippo Guastoni at Piacenza, and another depicting a garden in casa Beltrami, the Sanvitali depicting the sea. He painted also scenography and decorations for the Teatro Municipale. [3]

References
‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 562.
Gli artisti piacentini, cronaca ragionata (1879), by Luigi Ambiveri, page 235.
Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page .
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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