Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) Italy "victory!" Oil On Canvas Signed And Dated 77, 70 X 39 Cm

Cesare Augusto DETTI (1847-1914) Italy, Spolete “Victory!” Oil on canvas Signed dated 77, Size: 70 x 39 cm. Cesare-Auguste Detti, born in Spoleto on November 28, 1848 and died in Paris on May 19, 1914, is an Italian painter Detti was born in Spoleto, then part of the Papal State, son of Davide Detti and Annunziata Vannini. At the age of fifteen, in 1862, he moved to Rome where he studied at the Accademia di San Luca, a student of Francesco Podesti, Francesco Coghetti and Marià Fortuny[1]. In 1872, in Naples, he organized his first major exhibition. Noticed by the French art dealer Adolphe Goupil, Detti settled in Paris and participated in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1873 to 1914, with interruptions in 1891 and 1892, years in which he exhibited his works at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He received an award at the 1900 Exposition Universelle for a decorative ceiling. Now in the Musée d'Orsay.