Painting by Pietro Saporetti (Bagnacavallo 1832 - Bassano del Grappa 1893) titled "Emancipation of Women".
Oil on canvas, cm 194 x 146. Signed lower right "P. Saporetti".
Exhibitions: 1883, National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, p. 92, n. 67; 1884, XLIII Exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Turin, p. 65, n. 1641; 1885, Exhibition of Fine Arts applied to Industry in Faenza.
Bibliography: «Fornarina. Illustrated artistic literary journal», II, 10, 1883, p. 76 (illustration by Saporetti taken from the painting).
«The Emancipation of Women!... Here it is: a gathering of women dealing with the big question! But a little mouse suddenly emerging from the wall terrifies them: the agendas, the notes, the inkwells, the whole question is turned upside down. The women run away, jump on chairs, scream. An immense and well-drawn painting»1. This is how the large vertical canvas Emancipation of Women, presented by Pietro Saporetti at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome in 1883 and then reprised the following year in Turin and in 1885 in Faenza, is described in a magazine of the time.