Horse with Herds

Horse with Herds is a really beautiful china ink original drawing on paper, signed and dated in black ink on the lower margin by the Italian artist  Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899).

The freshness of the line and the meticulousness of the execution makes this modern artwork precious, being it characterized by realism of intimate poetic intonation, in full nineteenth-century taste.

Except for a light fowing at the top of the sheet, otherwise good conditions. This original drawing includes a wooden frame (31 x 39 cm).

Filippo Palizzi  (Vasto, 1818 - Naples, 1899)  is remembered for being the renovator of nineteenth-century Neapolitan painting, because he abandoned the academic style to devote himself to the study of truth, especially of landscapes and animals, in harmony with contemporary French experiences, directing his painting towards a realism of intimate poetic intonation.

In Naples in 1837, he was in contact with the Posillipo school , which helped him abandon academic painting. In 1855, he travelled in Holland, Belgium, and France. He returned to Paris in 1865 and 1875. In Naples, from 1878 to 1880, he directed the Academy of Fine Arts with the intention of making the teaching of artistic disciplines in step with the times and collaborated in the organization of industrial art schools.

Following the examples of A. van Pitloo and G. Smargiassi, he devoted himself to the study of truth in the most humble subjects, such as small landscapes and animals, referring back to the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch animalists, but with more nineteenth-century naturalism. A research that matured in parallel with contemporary French experiences, kept alive thanks to the relationship with his brother Giuseppe, also a painter and friend of De Nittis.

The most conspicuous groups of works by Palizzi are found in the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.