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Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Fontanesi, Antonio

GAM1539

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 60.3; Larghezza: 91.7

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This work entered Luigi Frugone's collection in 1925. In order to obtain it, Frugone sold paintings by other artists. The work proposes a recurrent subject in Antonio Fontanesi's repertoire: an isolated figure in a landscape context of which she is nevertheless a central element. There is a perfect correspondence of emotions and feelings between the figure of the peasant girl and the surrounding natural environment, recalling various pictorial experiences of other famous painters such as Costantin Troyon, Camille Corot and Charles Daubigny, which Fontanesi appreciated during his stays in Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition of 1855.
The highly elaborate frame was commissioned and ordered in Siena by Ferruccio Stefani, the Genoese collector's trusted art dealer.