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PIETRO SCOPPETTA (Amalfi 1863 - Naples 1920) TWO SKETCHES OF A YOUNG WOMAN, SEATED AT A TABLE
Pen and black ink, c. 1914; 174 x 123 mm.

Pietro Scoppetta was taught by the painter Giacomo Di Chirico. He travelled to Rome and Milan in the eighties, and lived in Paris between 1900 and 1909, visiting London. A landscape and figure painter, Scoppetta was also a fine portrait painter, specializing in elegant female portraits in the 'Belle époque' taste. See M. Bignardi, 'Pietro Scoppetta. Un pittore sulla scena della belle époque', exhibition catalogue, Salerno, 1998.