The White Cat
The White Cat by Italian Painter Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859 – 1933); þekktur fyrir listaverk sín sem sýna fínklædda menn og konur á tímum tómstunda og leiks.
The White Cat is a dreamy like portrait of a beautiful young lady looking at the viewer in an over the shoulder white silk dress, with an addition sheer green and blue linen shawl that she is also sitting on; but that come out over the right armrest of the couch; and with her left arm almost entirely wrapped by it with just about her hand and wrist showing through.
She is relaxing in a large cushioned chair with a very large silk or satin pillow behind her holding a flower in her right; and there are additional white, purple and pink flowers on the right side of the couch.
Too her left, and resting on her left shoulder, we see a curios white cat with reddish ears and nose, being partially covered by the sheer green and blue shawl looking into the distance
The White Cat is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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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.