The Bouquet
The Bouquet c1889 by Italian Painter Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859 – 1933); þekktur fyrir listaverk sín sem sýna fínklædda menn og konur á tímum tómstunda og leiks.
This is a portrait of a young lady with auburn hair, wearing a silk or satin light colored blue-white dress, with cross straps that go over her shoulders with an disc brooch at the center; as well as a sheer blue shawl around her arms and across her chest and on the waist.
She is sitting on a bench with a possible marble top and a wooden blue foundation that is embellished with a copper motif.
In her hands that are resting on her lap is a bouquet of purple roses, and beside her to her right is an assortment of white roses resting on the top of the bench.
The background is composed of a sating drape that blends into the background wall of varying colors that conforms to the young ladies skin tones.
The Bouquet is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a strigaprentun á netinu.
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Vittorio was born to Jewish parents, Isacco e Giuditta Baquis, in Livorno, og á umr 16, hann hlaut listnám við Listaháskólann í Flórens undir handleiðslu ítalska málarans Enrico Pollastrini (1817 – 1876).
Síðan á milli 1878 og 1879 hann starfaði undir ítalska málaranum Domenico Morelli (1826 – 1901) í Napólí; þekktur fyrir að framleiða sögulegar og trúarlegar málverk; og sem þótti hafa mikil áhrif í listum á síðari hluta 19. aldar.
Vittorio ferðaðist síðan til Parísar þar sem hann hitti franska málarann Léon Bonnat (1833 – 1922), og skrifaði undir samning við Goupil & Þetta er leiðandi umboð í Frakklandi á 19. öld, þaðan gat hann bætt tekjur sínar sem portrettmálari með myndskreytingum fyrir tímarit.
Hann fór oft í hringi ítalska málarans Giuseppe De Nittis (talinn vera einn mikilvægasti ítalski málarinn á 19. öld); og frá 1881 þar til 1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.
Í 1886 Vittorio returned to Italy, putatively to join the army, and then settled in Florence. At which time he converted to Catholicism and married a widow named Emma Ciabatti.
In Florence, he made friends in the intellectual circles of the time, and made portraits of Italian Realist painter Silvestro Lega (1826 – 1895), Italian Poet Giosue Carducci (1835 – 1907), and Italian Composer Pietro Mascagni (1863 – 1945).
After 1900, he wrote for the Florentine Journal Il Marzocco.; as well as published a short story in the magazine Fanfulla della Domenica titled Mademoiselle Leprince.
Í 1904, he traveled to Potsdam to paint Emperor William II (1859 – 1941) and other members of the German monarchy.
During World War I in 1916, Vittorio’s son died in battle. Later in the 1920s he joined the Gruppo Labronico along with Italian Painters Plinio Nomellini (1866 – 1943) and Ulvi Liegi (1858 – 1939).
He also painted portraits of Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini 1883 – 1945) inn 1928; Countess Annina Morosini (1924 – 1965); Countess Nerina Volpi di Misurata; Carducci, Puccini and Mascagni; Queen Amélie of Portugal and Princess of Orleans.