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ANTONIO FONTANESI (Reggio Emilia 1818 - Turin 1882) WORK (2nd version)
Etching, Dragone 88; a very good impression of the second state, with letters, as printed by G. Lovera in 1873 for the 'Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti' of Turin. With wide margins, in very good condition. To the platemark 185 x 258 mm, the entire sheet measuring 270 x 373 mm.

Fontanesi studied at the Scuola di Belle Arti in Reggio Emilia. He then settled in Geneva, working within the sphere of Alexandre Calame, Corot and Daubigny. He visited the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, and he first exhibited at the Salon in 1859. Between 1865 and 1866 Fontanesi was in London. In 1868 he was director and professor of figure painting at the Accademia in Lucca, succeeding to the chair of landscape painting at the Accademia Albertina in Turin (1869). Between 1876 and 1878 Fontanesi taught in Tokyo, where he influenced Japanese painters.