| ANTONIO FONTANESI (Reggio Emilia 1818 - Turin 1882) ROCKY HEADLAND WITH TREES, OVER THE SEA Black chalk, inscribed 'punta della Palmaria'; 202 x 251 mm. PROVENANCE: Giovanni Piumati (1850-1915), who was a pupil and a friend of Fontanesi. Palmaria island, near Portovenere, is the biggest island in Liguria. Fontanesi extensively travelled through Liguria in the summer of 1856. 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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|