#female figure

This oil painting is the work of Roberto Pucci (signed R. Pucci), an Italian artist active between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The portrait shows the influence of the Italian academic tradition with elements of realism, evident in the naturalistic rendering of the subject and in the use of a sober yet effective palette.The female portraits of this period are particularly appreciated by collectors of late 19th-century Italian art and by museums specializing in traditional figurative ar...