Description:

VITTORIO REGGIANINI (Italian, 1858-1938) A Very Fine and Large Italian 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Spying Their Target", Signed with the artist monogrammed signature: VREGGIANINI (Lower-Right). Circa: 1890. (Previously offered at Sotheby's N.Y.)

Height: 38 3/4 inches (98.4 cm)
Width: 52 inches (132.1 cm)

Ref.: A1290

Vittorio Reggianini was born in Modena, Italy in 1853 and died in 1938. He was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts school of Modena and later became a professor. He specialized in genre subjects with elegant scenes of bourgeois life, mainly of women, courting scenes and child studies, as well allegorical scenes like this one. Reggianini combined fantasy with reality. While in Florence in 1900, he participated in the Alinari Corcorso with his work titled Tristis Matris Nati Presaga Finis. Reggianini also exhibited at the Florentine Art Association in 1907 and again at the exhibition of 1910. He was known to have worked with other genre painters such as Federico Andreotti (1847-1930) and Francesco Vinea (1845-1902) amongst others. Works by Vittorio Reggianini are exhibited in the Mainz Museum in Germany.