Pietro Antonio Luchini was a very important artist of the Lombard art scene of the nineteenth century with works belonging to the bourgeois portrait season. A significant example of this is the Portrait of Clementina Martelli Grillo with evident influences of French Romantic painting of the early nineteenth century.

Among the numerous trips abroad, which made him famous throughout Europe, we note the trip to Paris in 1832 during which he was a pupil of François Gérard, one of Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite artists for his celebratory portraits. Luchini was also the personal painter of the Pasha of Persia for whom he created fine works of commendation.

In this portrait the young woman is portrayed sitting on a nineteenth-century padded chair, dressed in a white silk dress with a wide neckline and in her hands gathered on her lap she holds roses. The work was donated by the Martelli Longhi heirs to the Municipality of Lecco in 1983 together with the Portrait of the notary Luigi Martelli, exhibited in the same room.

Location: room n. 3