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Giacomo Favretto (1849–1887), a Venetian painter, trained at his city’s Academy of Fine Arts. His career gained momentum through Italian exhibitions: in 1880, Vandalismo won the Principe Umberto prize at Brera. Everyday life provided his painting with a repertoire of gestures, encounters and familiar situations.
In sartoria, also titled Rammendatrici, is an oil on canvas of 1878 held by GAM in Turin. Its subject connects the human figure with working life and the interior. At the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, Una dichiarazione, dated around 1882, explores an amorous encounter. Acquired in 1887, this canvas is associated by the museum with Mariano Fortuny’s influence. These examples illuminate a painting in which anecdotal incident and refinement of execution respond to one another.
This profile brings together identity references for Giacomo Favretto and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on wood
Attribué à Giacomo Favretto — "Contadino"
huile sur bois
attr. à
Catalogue period : 2020-06-19 — 2020-06-30
Attributed to
Published result : 330 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Watercolour
Attribué à Favretto, Giacomo — , zugeschrieben Galanter Offizier in Paradeuniform
Aquarell
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2017-03-20
Attributed
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 200–300
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Attribué à GIACOMO FAVRETTO — Junge Frau mit einem Vogel.
Öl auf Htf
zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 1700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2800
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