Domenico Morelli - Arabic figure

Features

Artist:  Domenico Morelli (1823-1901)

Artwork title:  Figura araba

Age:  19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Subject:  Oriental Subject

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Board

Description : Figura araba

Oil on panel. Signed in the lower right. On the back the stamp of the Galleria d'arte G. Cerruti in Milan. Domenico Morelli, a painter of naples, as well as the political of the new Kingdom of Italy (senator in the XVI legislature), he initially in the production of historical subjects die romantic; following contact with the macchiaioli and friendship with Filippo and Giuseppe Palizzi, came gradually to adopt a style less academic and more freely, especially in the use of color, creating a personal style that harmoniously combines the verismo and late-romanticism to models neoseicenteschi. From 1874 to 1883, and about, Domenico Morelli, painted pictures, having as subject scenes in the eastern, although never having been in those places, thus in the current of the Italian orientalists . The proposed work is presented in the frame of the end '800.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition that may show slight traces of wear; may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 41
Width: 51
Depth: 7

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 18
Width: 28