Michela De Vito, Peasant Costume, Ink and Watercolor, 1620s

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Costume di contadino is an original Watercolour drawing on ivory colored stuck on paper, 1620 c.a. Not signed. This Artwork … Read more Costume di contadino is an original Watercolour drawing on ivory colored stuck on paper, 1620 c.a. Not signed. This Artwork is attributed to Michela De Vito. Representing a man in typical peasant costume, together with his goat. Excellent conditions. Image Dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm Very beautiful and good quality watercolour both for the drawing and for the fineness of the colours. Michela De Vito In the XIX century, Michela De Vito native of Abruzzi, worked in Naples and became a famous artist. She was maybe the daughter or sister of Camillo de Vito, a renowned painter of guaches above all of views and scenes of everyday life. Sometimes she is mistaken with Michele de Vito. “A refined painter, very skilled when it came to drawings, she had the characteristic to make her subject more gentle, compared to her male colleagues''; this is how De Rosa and Trastulli describe her. See less