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Oxen on the banks of the Arno
At the rialto bridge
Sleeping young woman
The page, play with the greyhound
Coffee
Fall
Boats on the Bosphorus
The morning
Painter
Miss Bell
Shepherdess at the mountain
Return from the hunt
Artillery in Tuscany in Montechiaro greeted by the French wounded in Solferino
Arabic
Amazon
Oxen on the banks of the Arno
At the rialto bridge
Sleeping young woman
The page, play with the greyhound
Coffee
Fall
Boats on the Bosphorus
The morning
Painter
Miss Bell
Shepherdess at the mountain
Return from the hunt
Artillery in Tuscany in Montechiaro greeted by the French wounded in Solferino
Arabic

Amazon

Giuseppe De Nittis

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Frugone Collections

Via Capolungo, 9, Genoa

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This painting refers to the stays in Paris of De Nittis, a captivating episode of city life linked to the glossy and luxurious world of the upper bourgeois milieu rendered with lively expressive freshness, well exemplified in the Apulian painter's approach to those genre subjects that precisely in those years in Paris, and beyond, received acclaim from critics and the public. The Amazon, datable to the mid-seventies of the nineteenth century, is characterized by that "interior elegance" that allows the artist not to slip into a stuccoed sketch: almost imperceptible touches to make the veil that hides the face of the Amazon, slightly more frothy for the lace, embroidery and ruffles that decorate the clothes for the dog's fur. The artist does not miss the panoramic perspective that the Bois de Boulogne offers up to the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs Elysées. The artist juxtaposes the strong color contrasts on the first floor, with the intention of enhancing them, with the golden and gray-blue tones of that quick perspective flight of the walk, made alive by smaller and smaller figures sketched up to the edge of the Arch. A way of breaking through the painting that recurs in many of his works and which gives them depth and breath.
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Title: Amazon

Author: Giuseppe De Nittis

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Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Frugone Collections

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