Antonio Mancini (Rome 1852 – 1930), Ciociara – Black eyes (1883)
Oil on canvas, 38 x 27 cm, signed lower right. A label from Galleria Borghi & Co. Fine Art Dealers, New York, is on the back.
Provenance: Marco Innocenti Collection, Milan; Borghi & Co., New York; Gilgore Collection, Naples, Florida.
Exhibitions: Galleria Geri, Milan 1942; A Chisel and a Brush: Vincent Gemito, 1852-1929; Antonio Mancini, 1852-1930: from the Gilgore Collection, Italian Art, 1850-1925, Naples, Florida 2000.
Bibliography: Eterno Femminino 800, edited by Enrico Piceni, Milan 1942, reproduced; A Chisel and a Brush: Vincent Gemito, 1852-1929, Antonio Mancini, 1852-1930: from the Gilgore Collection, Italian Art, 1850-1925, Naples, Florida 2000, no. 25, pp. 84 and 85; Antonio Mancini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Work, vol. 1, edited by Cinzia Virno, Rome 2019, no. 309, p. 231.
This is one of Mancini’s first Roman paintings, although the setting is that of the Neapolitan street boys of the 1870s.
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