Indian Summer [L'estate di San Martino]

c. 1883

Eleuterio Pagliano

Associated Names
Eleuterio Pagliano

Artist, Italian, 1826 - 1903

The image features a man and a woman, both shown from head to toe. The man is seated on the left, leaning forward slightly with his forearms on his knees. He has a receding hairline, short hair, facial hair, and is dressed in a suit with a waistcoat and cravat. The woman is reclining on a sofa, looking towards the man with her body slightly turned to him. She is wearing a bonnet and a long dress. She holds an umbrella or parasol in her right hand. The background shows a plain wall and a textured or patterned floor.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.5 × 51.7 cm (14 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.)
    plate: 20 × 28.5 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.31.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mezzetti 1935, no. 381, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(La Portantina, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1935

  • Mezzetti, Amalia.L'acquaforte lombarda nella seconda metà dell'800. Milan, 1935, no. 381.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Pagliano; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: L'Ete de la Saint-Martin; by later hand, verso upper left, in graphite: 4874

Wikidata ID

Q76561620

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