Giuseppe De Nittis, Woman with a Bouquet of Flowers (Preparations for the Party), c. 1883

Giuseppe De Nittis is one of the most celebrated Italian painters active in Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century. In recent years, his work has received definitive international recognition, including the first major monographic exhibition in the United States, ‘An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis’, held at The Phillips Collection in Washington in 2023.

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In the painting Woman with a Bouquet of Flowers, the artist portrays his wife, Titine, with a free and synthetic expressiveness that conveys the intimate atmosphere of married life. Within this private setting, De Nittis also experiments with a narrow, vertical format reminiscent of the Japanese kakemono, a stylistic trend that was particularly fashionable in fin-de-siècle ParisWoman with a Bouquet of Flowers (Preparations for the Party), c. 1883

GIUSEPPE DE NITTIS

(Barletta, 1846 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1884)

Woman with a Bouquet of Flowers (Preparations for the Party), c. 1883

Oil on panel, 60 x 24 cm