Reading in a Garden (Lettura in giardino)

1904/1905

Pompeo Mariani

Associated Names
Pompeo Mariani

Artist, Italian, 1857 - 1927

The image shows a person seated from just below the waist up. The individual's facial features are blurry, and they wear a hat. They wear a loose-fitting garment, with visible sleeves. The left hand rests on the surface, and the right hand holds a piece of paper. The background is filled with greenery and a textured sky in blue and white.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color monotype with scraping, additional oil color, graphite and colored pencils on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38.8 × 49 cm (15 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)
    plate: 24.5 × 35 cm (9 5/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.31.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Milan 1996, no. 2966

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

1996

  • Enrico, Franco, ed. _Pompeo Mariani, 1857-1927 : opere dallo studio di Bordighera._Milan, 1996, no. 2966.

Inscriptions

by later hand, verso upper right, in graphite: 2966

Wikidata ID

Q76561900

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