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Giovanni Boldini BiographyItalian painter, draftsman, landscapist, portraitist, engraver, etcher, printmaker & pastellistborn 1842 - died 1931 Born in: Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna, Italy) Died in: Paris (Département de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France) Friend of: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Giovanni Boldini was a portrait painter and etcher. his father Antonio Boldini (1799-1872) was also a painter. He married the journalist Emilia Cardona. |
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In 1871 Boldini settled in Paris, having already become renowned as a society portrait painter in Italy. Under contract to the art dealer Adolphe Goupil Giovanni Boldini painted landscapes, views of Parisian life and fancy costume pieces (e.g. Gossip, 1873; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). In 1874 he exhibited at the Salon du Champ-de-Mars, and received critical acclaim. Around this time Giovanni Boldini began to paint portraits of beautiful society women (e.g. Comtesse Gabrielle de Rasty Seated in an Armchair, ca 1878; Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York), and Giovanni Boldini became friends with other fashionable portrait painters such as Paul Cesar Helleu, John Singer Sargent and JW. In 1883-84, according to the artist Albert Ludovici, JW painted Olga Alberta, daughter of the Duchess of Carcciolo (Arrangement in Pink, Red and Purple (YMSM 324)). his interest in the sitter sparked that of Walter Sickert, Helleu and Boldini who also went on to paint her portrait. Boldini also painted JW's patron Lady Colin Campbell (c. 1893, National Portrait Gallery, London). |
Around 1878-80 Boldini began to experiment
with printmaking, producing a small number
of etchings and drypoints.
Edgar Degas'
influence is apparent in some of his choices of theme, composition and
technique. In the 1880s Boldini, like Degas,
began to use pastel for large portraits. In
1889 Giovanni Boldini travelled with Degas to
Morrocco and Spain, where they admired the
work of Velazquez. In the 1880s and 1890s he travelled extensively in Italy and Spain and visited London and New York. Like JW, he was drawn to Venice, and Giovanni Boldini painted a number of evocative images of the city that recalled the painting of Turner. n the late 1890s the two men were in correspondence. Boldini painted JW's portrait in 1897 (Brooklyn Museum, New York). It was exhibited at the International Society of Sculptors, artists and Gravers at the Skating Rink, |
Knightsbridge
in May 1898 alongside a self-portrait of the
President, Gold and Brown (YMSM 462). A
number of Boldini etchings were also shown
alongside JW's. Giovanni Boldini also made a drypoint
of JW whilst Giovanni Boldini was posing for the oil portrait. Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris, 1956-61; Reynolds, G. A., Giovanni Boldini and Society Portraiture, 1880-1920, exhibition catalogue, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1984; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980; MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995; Calingaert, Efrem Gisella, 'Giovanni Boldini', The Grove Dictionary of Art Online. |