Giovanni Battista Quadrone (1844 – November 23, 1898) was an Italian painter, mainly of

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scenes.

Biography

He was a resident of Turin. He was born to a relatively wealthy family of marble merchants. His family encouraged his art studies, and Quadrone enrolled in the

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

, where he studied with

Enrico Gamba Enrico Gamba (3 June 1831, in Turin – 19 October 1883, in Turin) was an Italian painter of genre scenes, period pieces and a few portraits. Biography His father worked for the Royal Accounting Office. He was the younger brother of Frances ...

and Gaetano Ferri (1822–1896) and won the Triennial competition. He initially painted in a realistic style, but this changed after traveling to Paris in 1870, where he worked in the studios of

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academic painting, academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living art ...

and befriended

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. Back in Turin, he continued to paint genre scenes, mainly of laborers in folkloric dress. He also painted many scenes of hunting, often with dogs, and horse-racing themes. He was mainly represented by the Florentine gallery of

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. In the 1880s, he travelled frequently to

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, where he was married. Although sometimes referred to as the "Italian

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, some later critics called him a ''Flemish Piedmontese'', reflecting his ardent adhesion to realism in his animal paintings. The

Museo Borgogna The Francesco Borgogna Museum, located on Via Francesco Borgogna near the town center of Vercelli in the region of Piedmont, displays a collection of paintings, frescoes, sculpture, tapestries, and other artifacts. The works originate from the 14t ...

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displays his ''Lo studio dello scultore'' (1891). He painted this subject of the artist in his studio on other occasions: ''Vergognosa!'' (1875, found in Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna of Turin); ''Ogni occasione è buona'' (1878); and ''Il pittore e la modella - In cerca del soggetto'' (1882, also in the Museo Borgogna). At the Exhibition of Turin, in 1880, he displayed: ''After the rappresentazione''; ''A naturalist''; ''A painter in his studio''; and ''The Judgement of Paris''. In 1880, in Florence, he displayed: ''A Jesuit''; ''Among Prisoners''; and ''Saltimbanchi''. In 1884, he displayed in Turin: ''Procession in Sardinia''; ''Morning of Market Day in the Piedmont''; at Sardinia exhibition; ''Charity''; finally in 1886 at Milan, he sent: ''Per viaggio'', ''Sardinia'', and in 1887 at Venice, ''il Ronzino Sardo''. Among other works are: ''L' assassinio''; ''Lettura di una poesia giocosa''; ''Il geografo''; ''Accoglienza poco promettente''; ''Partenza per la caccia''; ''Rientro dalla caccia''; and ''Dopo la caccia''. He was awarded the cross of knight of the

Order of the Crown of Italy The Order of the Crown of Italy ( or OCI) was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate Italian unification, the unification of Italy in 1861. It was awarded in five degrees for ...

.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, pages 396.

Selected paintings

File:Quadrone-Dog.jpg, L'occasione fa il ladro
(Opportunity Makes the Thief) File:Quadrone-Bimbi.jpg, I Bimbi
(The Children) File:Quadrone-Occasion.jpg, Ogni occasione è buona
(Every Opportunity is Good)

References

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Quadrone.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quadrone, Giovanni Battista 1844 births 1898 deaths Painters from Turin 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian genre painters Accademia Albertina alumni People from Mondovì 19th-century Italian male artists

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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