Filippo Baratti (1846- 1936)

(QR644) The antique paintings category offers a beautiful portrait of a group of elegantly dressed people playing a game of chess in a park, an oil painting on canvas, from the second half of the nineteenth century. Italian Antiquity. It is a portrait that represents the noble society of 19th-century France who, in their free time, play and stroll dressed in nineteenth-century clothes. The work is dated 1883 and signed on the lower right F. Baratti Paris, an Italian painter of genre scenes, urban scenes and orientalist. Filippo Baratti (1846-1936) was born in Trieste, but little is known about his life. It is known that in 1868 he exhibited a painting at the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan. He held many exhibitions from 1869 to 1872 at the "Società Promatirice di Bella Arte" in Turin. Many of this artist's works are on orientalist themes and he became one of the main representatives of this style in Italy. He lived in Paris between 1870 and 1880, then for 5 years in London where he began to paint urban landscapes. He then returned to Paris where he remained until the end of the 1900s. The antique painting is framed in a gilded nineteenth-century frame. The frame and oil painting have been carefully and professionally restored. www.bisgart.com Bisgart Collection Bibliography: E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculptures Dessinateurs et Graveurs. *** Canvas size: 52 x 31 cm Size with frame: 69.5 x 48 cm Depth: 6 cm Weight: 4.8 kg Restored Painting | Italian Origin | Nineteenth Century | Italian Antiquity | Antique Paintings | Italian School