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RAFFAELE RAGIONE (Naples 1851 - 1925) SEATED FEMALE FIGURES
Black chalk, signed 'R. Ragione'. On the verso another sketch of female figures and the inscription (on the mount) 'Disegni di Raffaele Ragione eseguiti al Parc Monceau a Parigi / per i suoi noti quadri di bambini e balie'. 225 x 149 mm.

A pupil of Morelli and Lista at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples, Ragione specialized in genre painting, depicting nurses and children in the Neapolitan public gardens. He was in Paris in the early 1900s, painting similar subjects in the Parc Monceau and in the Tuileries gardens.