Italian Field after the Battle of Magenta

1862 · Galleria dell'Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

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Battle of Magenta (June 4, 1859) was an engagement between France and Austria in the Franco-Piedmontese war during the second war of Italian independence (185961). The outcome was a narrow French victory. The scene of the fighting was Magenta, 19 km west of Milan, in Austrian-dominated northern Italy.

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Italian Field after the Battle of Magenta

About the Artist

Giovanni Fattori

1825 – 1908

Italian painter and etcher. Initially established as a painter of military subjects, he came to be one of the leading Italian plein-air painters of landscape with figures. He was one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. Towards the end of his life he produced many excellent etchings, mainly of rural subjects.

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