| ANTONIO MANCINI (Rome 1852 - 1930) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL Black chalk. Signed 'Mancini' in brown chalk. Laid on canvas. 255 x 345 mm. Mancini was a very precocious artist: he arrived in Naples in 1865, entering the Institute of Fine Arts when he was only twelve years old, and studied there under Filippo Palizzi and Morelli. Like many Neapolitan artists of the period, Mancini was influenced by Mariano Fortuny. His early works center around themes of everyday reality, like the sculptures of his friend Vincenzo Gemito. In 1872 Mancini exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon and in his first trip to Paris in 1875 he met the Impressionists, a contact which pushed his art toward a more luminous, painterly style. He painted for the art dealer Goupil and worked also for Mesdag, the Dutch dealer and collector. After a rest for a nervous breakdown (1877-79) Mancini traveled to Paris, London and the Hague, where he studied the seventeenth-century masters, especially Rembrandt and Hals, whose bravura styles have great affinity with Mancini's own technique. In 1883, he settled permanently in Rome. |
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