Beautiful painting, oil on cardboard by Emma Ciardi, depicting a gallant scene rich in characters, set in Paris.
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 traveled, carrying her Venetian speech around the world, participated in all the most important international art exhibitions, the most accredited gallery owners offered her their spaces to show her works in Milan, London, Paris, New York, collectors from all over Europe and America bought her paintings, newspapers spoke of 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 a distinction. She chooses to portray the landscape, she makes portraits of cities she becomes acquainted with, Florence, London, Paris, Basel, Bruges. Venice and ancient gardens populated by ancient ladies and gentlemen are the great protagonists of her repertoire. In the gardens that made her famous, she starts from life, observes and fixes the landscape before her eyes, then, in the studio, she introduces a crowd of characters dressed in eighteenth-century fashions into the compositions, arranging them on the scene studied from life. 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, wording on the back.
Dimension; board only 12.5 x 31 cm - with frame 39 x58 cm
