“Lago Maggiore” – Large oil painting on canvas by Riccardo Pellegrini (1863-1934), depicting a landscape on the shores of Lake Maggiore. Restored, with coeval frame.
PELLEGRINI RICCARDO. Born in Milan on 11 March 1863, died in Crescenzago (Mi) on 31 March 1934. He studied in his city, then in Rome, and in Naples with Domenico Morelli. He travelled to Spain, England and France to deepen his artistic knowledge. In 1912 he won the Muller house competition in London for the illustrations of the Gil Blas of Le Sage. Then the illustrations for “Don Quixote” were commissioned. The main magazines in Europe collaborated with him. He rarely exhibited in Italy, but when he did it had always success. His sketch Malta is located in the Berlin Art Museum; La ridda, in the Gofort Museum in Stuttgart; The kiss of sun, in the Goupil Gallery in Paris. The drawings made for the “Gil Blas” were collected in a room dedicated to the Pilgrims in the Glasgow Museum. The Bottega di Poesia exhibition held in Milan in 1926 featured: A carpet market in Spain; Winter quiet; Sun of July; One August morning in Toledo; Valencian Sea; The spouses. Other works: Spanish flower market, in the R.O. collection of Rome, one of his best works; Villereccia party, in the Rovelli collection of Milan; The antiquarian, in the Ruffini collection in Milan; In the market (Xeres); Sur la promenade des Anglais; Notes of Spain; Remembrance of Seville; I remember my country; El picador; El primer espada; View of Seville; Spanish types; A bullfighter.
Period: 1896
Measurements: In frame H 87 x L 143 / Canvas H 65 x L 121 cm
