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Italian Woman, Carrying Maize, Talking to a Young Italian, 1857/60

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Watercolor on paper
40.5×55.6 cm

Artists

  • Anton Romako

    (Vienna 1832–1889 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The numerous extant depictions of bourgeois life in Italy from Anton Romako’s (1832–1889) oeuvre were created after his move to the “eternal city” of Rome in 1856. This 1857/1860 work shows two figures engaged in conversation. Romako embedded the scene into an idyllic-looking landscape. The picturesque character of the composition is underscored by the artist’s choice of bright colors.

AS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Anton Romako
Title
Italian Woman, Carrying Maize, Talking to a Young Italian
Date
1857/60
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
40.5×55.6 cm
Signature
Signed lower left: A. Romako Roma
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 881
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
Catalogue raisonne
  • Reiter 2010: 81
Keywords
woman/girlman/boyagriculturefarmerfolk costume/regional costumeconversation/dialogue

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Britischer Privatbesitz, Schottland; (1)
Auktion: 24. Juni 1987, Sotheby´s London, „Nineteenth Century European Drawings and Watercolours“, Nr. 595; (2)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1987-1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, E-mail von Sotheby´s vom 24.08.2017.
  2. Sotheby´s London: “Nineteenth Century European Drawings and Watercolours, June 24th, 1987, Nr. 595 (“A Couple Arguing”);

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woman/girlman/boyagriculturefarmerfolk costume/regional costumeconversation/dialogue