Giuseppe Ricci (1853 in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

– April 21, 1901 in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

) was an Italian painter, often painting indoor genre themes.

Biography

While he was born and a resident of Genoa, he had trained first in

with

Enrico Gamba Enrico Gamba (3 June 1831, in Turin – 19 October 1883, in Turin) was an Italian painter of Genre art, genre scenes, period pieces and a few portraits. Biography His father worked for the Royal Accounting Office. He was the younger brothe ...

and then in Paris with

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

. In 1880, he exhibited ''Bozzeto di mendicante''. In 1892, the Civic Museum of Turin acquired ''Una lezione di musica (The Music Lesson)''. In 1900, he painted ''Voci Intime (Intimate Voices)''; ''Madonna del Fiore'' (won Alinari Prize); and ''Le pain be'nit'' (1900). He was strongly influenced by the French painter

Eugène Carrière Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. He ...

. Giuseppe Pasquale Ricci, who bears no known relationship, was a merchant of the city of

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

. In 1880 at the Exhibition of Turin, he displayed:''Buon viaggio''; and in 1884, ''Diogene'' and ''In processione''. In 1883 at the Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited ''Per la processione''. In 1880, at the Fine Arts Exhibition of Milan, he displayed the realist style painting of ''Mendicante'' (Beggar).''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti''
by

Angelo de Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he wa ...

. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 413.

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