A large and impressive signed oil on canvas by the Italian genre painter Eduardo Galli. This work is signed upper right and in its original gilt frame and was purchased at Christie's in London by the previous owner in the 1970’s The work depicts figures making merry and drinking in a wine cellar. Galli painted numerous scenes with figures drinking and in wine cellars. He was a typial Italian genre painter from Naples.
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 20 November 1854, in Naples.
Painter. Portraits, genre scenes.
Eduardo Galli exhibited in Rome, in 1883, and in Venice, in 1887.
Auction Records
Milan, 18 Oct 1990: Young Peasant Girl and Her Goat on a Forest Path (oil on canvas, 42¼ × 67 ins/107 × 170 cm) ITL 16,000,000
Paris, 30 April 1999: Adolescent with Bouquet of Pansies (1883, oil on panel, 29 × 12 ins/74 × 31 cm) FRF 70,000
