Portrait of a Woman Vito D'Ancona (1825-1884)
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Oil painting on canvas signed by Vito D'Ancona
Italy, second half of the 19th century
Portrait of a woman on an oval canvas with a
rectangular, lacquered and gilded frame.
The artist's signature is above the sitter's right shoulder.
The painter, born in Pesaro in 1825,
was a leading exponent of the Macchiaioli,
a group of artists active in Tuscany in the second half of the 19th century.
He died in Florence in 1884.
Painting in good condition with a frame requiring consolidation.
The internal oval measures
42 cm wide and 53 cm high.