Eduardo Gelli „Girl in the atelier”, 1897
Description
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left „E.Gelli 1897”.
Framed: 45x59 cm (25,5x39,5 cm)
Eduardo Gelli (1853 - 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume portraits. He trained in Florence under Antonio Ciseri. The contemporary American art collector James Jackson Jarves grouped him in with Francesco Vinea and Tito Conti, two other costume genre painters. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, he displayed The Lost Chord. He began his artistic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he attended the courses of sculptor Carlo Dal Poggetto. Gelli also followed for six months the lessons of painter and etcher Antonio Fontaneis held at the Academy of Lucca in 1868. In the same year, Edoardo Gelli had his first exhibition at the Promotrice of Florence where he entered a landscape painting. He moved to Florence to complete his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, with painter Antonio Ciseri, known for his religious subjects. Although Gelli’s body of work is oriented to the re-enactment of seventeenth and eighteenth-century settings, he also produced many portraits and scenes of historical genre.
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