Portrait Of An Officer – 19th-century Lombard School – Painting

An antique oil painting on cardboard depicting a youngofficer in an elegant military uniform, attributable to the Lombard schoolof the second half of the 19th century. The work bears strong resemblances toLombard Risorgimento painting and the figurative style of the Induno brothers, renownedinterpreters of the patriotic and bourgeois sensibilities of 19th-century Italy. The subject is depicted in half-length with acomposed pose and direct gaze, in keeping with the style of bourgeois andmilitary portraiture of the Risorgimento period. The dark uniform with silver epaulets,rows of metal buttons, and decorative details evokes the Italian militarycircles of the Risorgimento period. The painterly rendering highlightsan academic style typical of 19th-century Lombard portraiture.The work is executed in oil on apressed cardboard support, a solution frequently used in Lombard paintingof the era for studies, private portraits, and interior works.
37.5 x 44.5 cm with frame
32.5 x 24 cm without frame