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ALESSANDRO MILESI (Venice 1856 - 1945) SKETCHED PROFILE OF A CHILD
Black chalk, a sheet from a sketchbook; 165 x 122 mm. Signed 'A Milesi'. On the verso sketch of a standing child.

Milesi studied at the Accademia in Venice under Michelangelo Grigoletti, then he was a pupil of Napoleone Nani in Verona. He specialized in genre paintings depicting everyday life and was also a skillful portrait painter.