Silvio Allason

Oil on panel by Silvio Allason, "Mont Blanc, La Thuile," signed, 1900 Fine painting depicting a trail in the Aosta Valley village of La Thuile, with Mont Blanc depicted in all its majesty in the background. Signed in the lower left corner. The back is dated August 8, 1900, and titled "La Thuile Monte Bianco." Measurements: Framed H 56.5 x W 46 x D 6 cm / Panel H 35.5 x W 25.6 cm. Biography: Silvio Allason (Turin, April 16, 1843 – Turin, May 13, 1912) was an Italian painter. Formerly employed at the Ministry of War in Turin and then in Florence, around 1867 he decided to follow in the footsteps of his cousin Ernesto Allason, devoting himself entirely to painting. To this end, he enrolled at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, where he was a pupil of Enrico Gamba and Andrea Gastaldi, and privately studied landscape with Edoardo Perotti, a specialty that would become the prevailing theme of his paintings. He debuted by exhibiting in 1869 at the Promotrice in Turin with the landscape "Il Sangone" and at the Circolo degli artisti with "Vicinanze di Stura"; he then exhibited in Milan, Naples, the 1878 Paris Salon, Genoa, Venice, and Nice, where his painting "Fra gli scogli" was purchased by the Musée Chéret.