(Milano 1851 - 1885)
SCENA PASTORALE
Etching and drypoint, Mezzetti 18. A fine impression, printed on thick wove paper, with margins. Signed in black chalk and dedicated bottom right corner G. Banfi all'amico Businello, Inscribed in black chalk bottom right margin (Un Idilio). To the platemark 215 x 296 mm; the full sheet 270 x 341. Top margin restored.
Another example of the print is at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. See Lamberto Vitali, Incisioni Lombarde del Secondo Ottocento all'Ambrosiana, Milan, 1970; no. 12, illustrated.
As has been noted several times, this etching is inspired by that of Mariano Fortuny y Marsal entitled Idyll
A pupil of Pagliano as a printmaker, Banfi won in 1876 the prize Girotti for etchers. He was a pupil at the Brera of the painters R. Casnedi and G. Bertini and won with his painting Erodiade, 1878, the Oggioni prize. In the 80s he painted genre and landscape works and paintings of interiors. He died at a young age.
