"Italian Model" Circa 1882 Oil on Canvas by Frank Duveneck
Item Details
An oil on canvas by Frank Duveneck (American 1848-1919) titled Italian Model, circa 1882, signed in the upper left with his monogram ‘FD.’ The painting is an example of Duveneck’s later work, when he shifted to a palette permeated with more color and light. The charming Italian model is seen from the waist up in bright light, wearing a pleasant expression along with large pearls at the neck and a small red hat to compliment her heavily rouged red lips. The painting is beautifully presented in a museum quality Munn frame with the label affixed to the back indicating the painting to have been purchased through Cincinnati Art Galleries. Frank Duveneck was born in 1848 in Covington, Ky and was apprenticed as a teen to German-American artists who decorated Catholic churches. In 1869, he studied abroad at the Royal Academy of Munich where he mastered the school’s bravura brush technique and darker palette. He returned to Cincinnati where his work began to receive attention, then once again traveled to Munich where he opened a school in 1878. His students Twachtman, Otto Bacher and Herman Wessel, to name a few, became known as the ‘Duveneck Boys’. In 1889, after the tragic loss of his wife, Duveneck returned again to the United States where he chose to live a quiet life in Covington, Kentucky and teach at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Frank Duveneck’s paintings can be found in many prestigious private collections, as well as the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Richmond Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Kenton County Library in Covington, Kentucky.
Dimensions
The image measures 14.5" high x 9.5" wide.
Item #
15CIN009-022
