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oil on canvas, without frame
92 x 130 cm
92 x 130 cm
Provenance
Private collection, Pescara.
It is a preparatory study for the large work currently kept at Palazzo de Maio, seat of the Prefecture in Chieti, and which was unofficially presented at the "Salvator Rosa" in Naples and in Milan at the triennial exhibition of Brera Academy of 1894.
It is an "Arcadian subject - a shepherd who puts his wife to sleep to the sound of the bagpipes - which dissolves into a sort of classical dream full of female nudes. The author's different tendencies converged: one linked to a form of regional realism bordering on folklore, the other derived from the influences of a symbolist culture." (S. Palmerio, Basilio Cascella, in Dizionario Biografico Treccani degli Italiani, vol. 21, 1978).
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