Enrico Gaeta, Boy with a Turkey, circa 1870
Description
Oil on canvas, signed lower left: "E. Gaeta".
Framed: 66x55 cm (51x40 cm).
Enrico Gaeta (Castellammare di Stabia 1840 - 1887) - Italian painter of landscapes, vedutas and genre scenes. He started studying in 1857 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He was a disciple of Giuseppe Macinelli and Gabriela Smargiassi, with whom he studied landscapes. He exhibited his works many times in Naples, Paris, Turin and Rome.