Giovanni Fattori (1825 - 1908) - Study for Soldier on Horseback

Giovanni Fattori (Leghorn 1825 - Florence 1908) - Drawing

Study for Soldier on Horseback, front, graphite pencil on light-coloured heavy paper

Cardboard size 18x22cm frame size 33x38cm (frame of the time)

Giovanni Fattori was born in Livorno in 1825.

Giovanni Fattori is one of the main exponents of the Tuscan Macchiaioli movement. Although he adheres to the current, however, the artist's research maintains a personal vision. In his works, in fact, a sense of transcendence is also legible in addition to the realism of Macchiaioli painting. In his life experience, Fattori moved closer to Risorgimento ideals, although he was impressed by the bloody side of the Italian wars of independence. He took refuge in the sunny land of Maremma, amidst silent, suspended landscapes, while his fame grew even among his contemporaries Giovanni Fattori died in 1908.