74. Village Chief's Wife
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74. Village Chief's Wife
1804, Triest (Italia) - 1858
Estimate:
EUR 1.500 - 2.500
Sold
EUR 2.000
oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm, 55x70
A travelling painter, fellow countryman of Giovanni Schiavoni, Livaditti reached Moldavia perhaps in 1831-1832, as a political refugee, it seems, given his closeness to the ideas of the Carbonari, a movement repressed around 1831. Easily noticed among the elite of Iași, the painter had a fruitful career as a portraitist, becoming one of the most important painters of the mid-19th century in Moldavia and one of the most prolific ones, at least judging by the standards of that time.
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