Soldiers at Rest

1870 · Private collection

genre

This panel is a preparatory sketch for The Battle of Custoza, 1866, a large painting executed between 1876 and 1880, now preserved in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

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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