Gunner Riding

Signed on plate by the artist.

Reference:

- A.Baboni, L’Ottocento: le incisioni di Giovanni Fattori, Museo Civico “Giovanni Fattori”, Livorno 2001, p. 76, tav. 55.

Giovanni Fattori was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli.

He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbizon school, he became one of the leading Italian plein-airists, painting landscapes, rural scenes, and scenes of military life. After 1884, he devoted much energy to etching.