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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Paolettii painted scenes of everyday life in his home city of Venice. His work was particularly popular with foreign collectors, and it is likely that this sentimental and romanticised image of urban poverty and childhood would have strongly appealed to Victorian taste. The young girl wears traditional Venetian costume, and gazes appealingly at the viewer, inviting us to sympathise with her plight, although not challenging our social conscience in any other way. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure; townscape; buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Paoletti, Antonio Ermolao (Italian painter 1834-1912) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8390... | Go to resource |
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