Giovanni Battista Quadrone

Giovanni Battista Quadrone (Mondovi 1844 – Turin 1898) "Gate in the countryside of Cagliari", 1866, oil on panel, red stamp of the posthumous exhibition 1899 in the lower left; numbered label in the lower right: 179 27x22 cm Published in the book by Giuseppe Luigi Marini “Quadrone. The life, documents, works. Catalogue Raisonné” vol. III fig. 490; vol. II 490 p.519 «Civic gate - sun effect». «Gate and countryside of Cagliari». Oil on panel, 27 x 22 cm.; red stamp of the posthumous exhibition 1899 in the lower left; numbered label in the lower right: 179. HISTORY: Giuseppina Quadrone Rogier, Turin (1898); Anita Pagani Quadrone, Turin (1935); Gian Franco Pagani, Turin (1959); private collection, Turin (1980). EXHIBITIONS: Turin 1899, Inventory-sale Studio Quadrone, n. 120: Turin 1899, Posthumous at the Promotrice, n. 179 room III; Turin 1970, Gall. Pirra, n. 58. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Inventory ms. 1899, p. 22 n.n., n. 120 (with title «Gate in the countryside of Cagliari. Civic gate - sun effect»); Cat. Posthuma 1899, p. 22, n. 179 (with title «Gate and countryside of Cagliari»); Cat. Pirra 1970, p. 58 n.n., n. 58 (with title «Study for the painting "Alt in Sardinia"») and fig. 58 p. 56 n.n. This quick rural glimpse, valued at 150 lire both in the exhibition-sale at the Studio Quadrone and in the Posthuma and on the loan receipt 045 of November 26, 1899, n. 169, in the latter and in the catalog is defined as «oil study»: evidently of the light effects in the scenography in which the subject of the painting «A stop (Sardinia)» develops (see n. 491).