Alberto Pasini, Composition, Watercolor, 1800s

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Beautiful, evocative watercolor attributed to the great emilian artist alberto pasini.
it represents, captured with rare intensity, a building taken … Read more Beautiful, evocative watercolor attributed to the great emilian artist alberto pasini.
it represents, captured with rare intensity, a building taken up several times in other paintings by pasini.
the pastel colors which with their nuances create the beautiful rarefied atmosphere of this little masterpiece.
signed “a pasini” lower right
nb the work is sold without frame
a certificate of authenticity issued by sabrina egidi expert of the court and of the c.c.i.a.a. From rome.
this item comes from a private collection and is therefore unreleased on the market

pietro maria alberto pasini (busseto, 3 september 1826 – cavoretto, 15 december 1899) was an italian painter.
at the age of two he lost his father giuseppe, and his mother adelaide crotti balestra took him to parma, to the house of his uncle antonio pasini, painter and collaborator of giovanni bodoni. At 17 he enrolled at the academy of fine arts in parma, choosing the landscape section.

he was then directed to lithography by the director of the academy, the engraver paolo toschi. Among his early works are a series of thirty lithographs on the castles of the duchy of parma and piacenza (1850-51).

he took part in the first war of independence as a soldier of the modena column.

after staying for a short time in turin, in 1851 he went to geneva and then to paris, where toschi directed him to the studio of henriquel dupont, who introduced him to the famous watercolourist and engraver eugène cicéri.

in 1854 he moved to the studio of théodore chassériau, who enhanced his propensity for orientalist painting.

in march 1855, through the intervention of chassériau, he was assigned as a designer to a diplomatic mission of the french government in persia, turkey, syria, arabia and egypt.

during that trip he created around sixty studies and many drawings, which were the basis of the works of the exotic realist genre that made his fortune first in france and then in italy.

he obtained many honors. In paris he was decorated with the medal of honor for painting, the shah of persia awarded him the title of "officer of the lion and the sun", napoleon iii decorated him with the legion of honor (1878), the king of italy 'order of saints maurice and lazarus.

his works are preserved in museums and art galleries around the world, including the modern art galleries of turin, milan, florence and rome; the national gallery, the cariparma foundation museum and the stuard art gallery in parma; the pennsylvania academy of arts in philadelphia and the art institute of chicago.

in parma, viale alberto pasini is dedicated to him, a road that connects piazzale santa croce with viale piacenza.

he is buried in the monumental cemetery of turin. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



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