Academically-trained Italian artist Vittorio Matteo Corcos was a portraitist, genre painter, and magazine illustrator. Corcos rendered the likenesses of notables such as Kaiser Wilhelm II and Benito Mussolini. The artist was especially gifted in depicting fashionable young women, as here in his likeness of the spouse of Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata, an Italian diplomat.
Contessa Nerina Pisani Volpi di Misurata, c.1895, Oil on CanvasVittorio Matteo Corcos Italian (1859 - 1933) |
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Academically-trained Italian artist Vittorio Matteo Corcos was a portraitist, genre painter, and magazine illustrator. Corcos rendered the likenesses of notables such as Kaiser Wilhelm II and Benito Mussolini. The artist was especially gifted in depicting fashionable young women, as here in his likeness of the spouse of Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata, an Italian diplomat. |
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