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VITTORIO REGGIANINI (1858-1938)WELCOME ADVANCESOil on canvas; signed lower right, 25" x 32" — 63.5 x 81.3 cm.Provenance:Private Collection, Montreal, QCLiterature:William Rau, Nineteenth-Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque, 2013Note:Vittorio Reggianini was born in Modena, Italy and later trained at its academy. He moved to Florence in 1885, where he established a reputation as an artist on the international market. This move saw a dramatic shift away from his earlier works of historical realism to a new taste that believed in the supremacy of paintings that reflected the opulent and ostentatious decor of the eighteenth century. Reggianini is heralded as one of the best at recording the texture of luxurious fabrics; he, along with Arturo Ricci and Frédéric Soulacroix, specialized in the Silk and Satins school. In this work, a woman is sumptuously dressed in pink satin. Her hair is arranged in an up-do that accentuates a coy smile. Her suitor is likewise attired in the height of fashion. This painting epitomizes the opulence and leisure that the 18th Century Costume artists so much attempted to convey.