Giovanni Giani

Gallant scene of excellent quality, oil on cardboard panel signed G. Giani lower right. Dimensions of the work in cm. 43 x 68. Frame dimensions in cm. 100 x 75 Giovanni Giani was born in Turin in 1866, attended the Albertina Academy winning several painting and composition prizes. In 1891 he participated in the Brera triennale with C. Follini and A. Rossi. He became famous and conquered a large audience through an extensive genre production: "celebrations of courtyards, cloisters and manors of parish libraries with books, furniture, fake flowers, eighteenth-century clocks, well-framed oleographs". He died in Turin in 1936