International studio (53.1914)

Studio-Talk


“ PAYSAGE D’lTALIE ”

(Collection of Julius Oppenheimer, Esq.)

BY GIOVANNI FATTORI

simple life. He was married three times but had
no children.

Fattori’s early works include many military sub-
jects. The country swarmed with soldiers at that
time, and the artist’s eagle eye was attracted by the
great variety of uniforms and attitudes he en-
countered, and he made a large number of pencil
sketches in his note-book and occasionally an

oil sketch on a wooden panel. The public, though
not quite satisfied with his drawing, took a fancy to
these subjects and if in later days he was able
to find just enough to live on, it was on account of
the various orders received from the government for
large battle-pictures. The artist himself, however,
soon outstepped the idea of becoming an expert in
the craft of painting military subjects. He realised
that true art had no fixed range of subject or

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( Collection of Julius Oppenheimer, Esq.)

BY GIOVANNI FATTORI