“Laundry in the sun” – Oil on tablet by Vittorio Cavalleri (1860 – 1938), dating back to the early 1900s. The work is signed in the lower right corner by the author, a Piedmontese painter, son of a cloth merchant, was started by his father for the family’s commercial activity.
CAVALLERI VITTORIO. Born in Turin in 1860, died in Turin on May 22, 1938. He attended the Accademia Albertina, a pupil of Gamba, Gilardi and Gastaldi. Landscape painter and portraitist, with a robust color, with a strong personality. In 1885 he participated for the first time in the Turin Promoter Exhibition with “Abandoned Hoes” and then frequently exhibited at the Turin exhibitions and the main Italian exhibitions, including the Venice Internationals, until 1925. He also painted sacred subjects, and in the Sanctuary of Oropa found three of his great paintings representing Peace; War and the faithful. Other works: Sad winter; Tonio the gallant; The grandmother and Alpine Flora, preserved in the Civic Museum of Turin; Mountain hospitality in the Marangoni Museum in Udine; In spring; Cemetery flowers; Love story; Empiricism; Ave Maria; Summer in the hills; In the shadow; Baleful Aurora; At home forced; Tribolo; First treasures; Portrait of a man; Domus Aurea; The drowned; Portrait of the Duke of Aosta, in the Gallery of the Order of the Garter at the Court of King Edward of England; Portrait of the mother, in the artist’s studio; the Self-portrait, owned by Botto of Milan; Supplizi in the Cartotti collection of Lessona; Ray of sunshine, with Mr. Vittorio Vacchieri; Assalita, Ferrino property; A sunbath, in the Vignolo di Torino collection and the Portrait of Mrs. Pelizzone. Many of his works exist in the Colongo collection in Biella and among them: The shadow; The washerwoman; In adoration; At the source; Theater interior; Sleeping girl. His pupils were: Giuseppe Moreno, Domenico Motta, E. Nicolello, Ans. Priest.
Period: Early 1900s
Measurements: In frame H 41 x L 53.5 / Tablet H 24.5 x L 36 cm