Matita On The Card Of Enrico Reycend

pencil on paper by Enrico Reycend
Born in Turin on November 3, 1855 to Marianna Savi and the bookseller of French origin Luigi, descendant of a historic family of publishers, he attended the Accademia Albertina in Turin without graduating until 1872 and then continued his education by taking private lessons from the masters Enrico Ghisolfi, Lorenzo Delleani and Antonio Fontanesi[1]; later, he refined his skills with a series of stays in Paris, where in 1878 he visited the Universal Exhibition and was extremely impressed by the works of Corot and the Impressionists[2]. He returned to the French capital to exhibit there in 1890 and 1900.

He attended the Circolo degli Artisti in Turin annually from 1874 to 1920, the exhibitions of the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti from 1873, where he made his debut with Un acquedotto sulla Dora and La cinta di Vanchiglia in 1927 and in Florence from 1874 with In autunno and Nei dintorni di Rivoli in 1889. In 1875 he presented Mattino d’agosto in Brera and in Genoa L’inverno and In autunno, in 1877 Tempo melanconico in Brera and in Naples In Piemonte, in 1880 in Turin he exhibited Natura mesta and La quiete, in 1881 he participated in Brera with the appreciated In ottobre[3], Sul Canavese and Rive del Po, in 1882 in Brera with Dintorni di Torino, Mattino di luglio and Il pomeriggio, in 1883 again in Brera with Return to the Pasture and Along the Po in Turin (also known as Along the Po, at the Gran Madre di Dio in Turin, one of Reycend's most significant works), purchased by the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Verona.