Cesare Dell'Acqua


Oil on canvas depicting a girl (Odalisque) in oriental dress.

Signed and dated lower left C.dell'Acqua 1866

Gilded wooden frame coeval with the painting. Measurements: 91x70.5 cm.

Biography:


Cesare Dell'Acqua (Piran of Istria, 22 July 1821 - Ixelles, 16 February 1905) was an Italian painter and illustrator.

After completing his first studies in Koper, from 1833 he was in Trieste and from 1842 to 1847 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

From 1848 he was in Brussels in the studio of Louis Gallait, where he specialized in the representation of historical events. Between 1852 and 1877 he performed numerous works in Trieste that made him famous and in demand. Among other things, he was commissioned by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg to create paintings with phases of the history of Miramare castle which are located in a room on the second floor, called "Sala di Cesare Dell'Acqua".

In 1873 he participated in the Universal Exposition in Vienna and in London the following year. Invitations follow one another internationally that will see him also engaged overseas.

In the latter part of his life he moved permanently to Brussels where he devoted himself to paintings for book illustrations.



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