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Gaetano Chierici (1838-1920)

Il desinare della vedova

Details
Gaetano Chierici (1838-1920)
Il desinare della vedova
signed and dated 'Chierici Gaetano/1877' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36½ x 47 in. (92.5 x 119.5 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Frederick Wigan; Christie's, 9 December 1915, lot 64 (72 gns.) and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
H. Blackburn, Academy Notes, 1877, vol. III, p. 68.
The Art Journal, 1877, vol. XVI, p. 27.
G. Caroggi, Un quadro italiano all'estero [I primi passi], L'Italia Centrale, 8 April 1881.
D. B. Gutierrez, Artisti contemporanei: Gaetano Chierici', Emporium, 1899, vol. X, p. 246, no. 58.
P. Zani, Il pittore dell'umorismo infantile (Gaetano Chierici), Il Seculo XX, 1907, A., vol. VI, p. 361, no. 5.
E. Monducci, Gaetano Chierici 1838-1920 Mostra Antologica, Reggio Emilia, 1986, pp. 182, 330, and 334, no. 95 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1877, no. 1342 as The Widow's Dinner.
Birmingham, The Royal Society of Artists, Annual Autumn Exhibition, 1881.

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