Achille Dovera - Untitled

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

Achille Dovera is an artist of extraordinary pictorial quality. He can be considered a leading exponent of 19th-century naturalist and genre painting. The work has a broad, classical feel, with this view lost in the distance through a light, aerial perspective. Formally, Dovera maintains a connection with the phenomenal reality, which is reproduced precisely, even though the role of color is fundamental. The brushstrokes are very fluid, rapid, and cursive, lending freshness and immediacy to the scene without disrupting the forms. The light illuminating the left-hand area occupied by the characters is crucial.

Achille Dovera was a 19th-century Milanese painter, born in 1838 and died in 1895. He was an important landscape painter, also known abroad. He trained at Brera with Francisco Hayez and participated in Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand.

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