Portrait of a Gentlewoman (1851)
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The immobility of the pose does not prevent the lady from presenting herself with the lively, sober and stately spirit of the social class to which she belongs. It is the wealthy class of Milan that reaches us through the portraits of Mauro Conconi, Eliseo Sala, Giuseppe Molteni, Hayez etc., in a review of noble landowners and solid bourgeois that shows us the high pre-Risorgimento town society. The painting is signed and dated 1851 by Mauro Conconi, born in Milan in December 1815. Formed at the Accademia di Brera in 1832, Mauro Conconi was a pupil of Luigi Sabatelli and Carlo Bellosio with whom he collaborated on the decorations of the Savoy residences.