Garden

Garden is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper, realized by Marco Calderini (Turin, 1850 - 1948) around 1880.

Representing a luxurious and decadent garden with a central fountain with a statue, this modern artwork is in good conditions, except for some sporadic stains on the higher margin and a usual and light yellowing of the paper on the edges, with some discolorations of ink.

Including a cream-colored cardboard passepartout (35 x 49.8 cm).

Marco Calderini (Turin, 1850 - 1941) was an Italian painter, lithographer and writer, student at the Albertina Academy of Enrico Gamba, del Gastaldi and Antonio Fontanesi, who influenced his style in the first works.  He began his career in 1870 with " The banks of the Po in Turin ", which is one of the most remarkable works placed in the Turin Civic Museum. In the same year he created the painting The Solitary Statues , in the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, which was followed by many other paintings of dazzling views of Piedmont. In 1899, he participated in the III International Art Exhibition in Venice. Among his writings: The posthumous memories of Francesco Mosso (1885) and Antonio Fontanesi: landscape painter (1901).