Famous Connoisseur (Fameux Connaisseur)

Giovanni Boldini Italian

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Boldini experimented with landscape and genre painting, but his greatest talent lay in portraiture. He had well-known clients in Italy, France, and Germany, where he met and painted Adolph Menzel. The inscription indicates that this drawing was made after Boldini relocated to Paris in 1871. The sitter may have been a famous French art critic, perhaps the Parisian Rodolphe Kann, whom Boldini painted in 1902, but it is also possible that the “fameux connaisseur” was a critic visiting from the artist’s native Italy.

Famous Connoisseur (Fameux Connaisseur), Giovanni Boldini (Italian, Ferrara 1842–1931 Paris), Crayon and pencil on graph paper.

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Famous Connoisseur (Fameux Connaisseur), Giovanni Boldini (Italian, Ferrara 1842–1931 Paris), Crayon and pencil on graph paper.
Famous Connoisseur (Fameux Connaisseur), Giovanni Boldini (Italian, Ferrara 1842–1931 Paris), Crayon and pencil on graph paper.

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