Emma Ciardi

Beautiful painting, oil on panel by Emma Ciardi, depicting a gallant scene full of characters. Emma Ciardi was born in Venice in 1879. Daughter of art, she was introduced to painting at a young age by her father, Guglielmo Ciardi. A constant presence at the Biennale (from 1903 to 1932, except for the 1927 edition), she travels, takes her Venetian parlance around the world, participates in all the most important international art exhibitions, the most accredited gallery owners offer her their spaces to show her works in Milan, London, Paris, New York, collectors from all over Europe and America buy her paintings, newspapers talk about her as "among the most interesting and most personal painters, painters and not female painters because Ciardi is an artist such that she does not need such distinction. She chooses to portray the landscape, she paints portraits of cities with which she becomes acquainted Florence, London, Paris, Basel, Bruges. Venice and the ancient gardens populated by antique ladies and knights are the great protagonists of her repertoire. In the gardens that make her famous, she starts from reality, observes and fixes the landscape that is before her eyes, then, in the studio, she introduces a crowd of characters dressed in eighteenth-century fashion into the compositions, placing them on the scene studied from reality. Many of her works can be viewed in the most important galleries and museums around the world. She died in Venice in 1933. Painting signed and dated in the lower right corner Dimension; panel only 26.5 x 44 cm - with frame 52 x 71 cm