Antique Painting Signed Emilio Donnini Landscape With River '800 Original

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
Emilio Donnini, a Florentine artist, established himself as a landscape painter who worked from life and marked the transition from a purely Romantic style to Macchiaioli realism. He particularly loved to depict romantic seascapes, painting scenes from life, mostly on his beloved island of Elba.
His works are rich in color with very delicate tones and a diffused luminosity that extends from the sky to the surfaces below—often water—with particular brilliance, while the figures that animate the scene are rendered with rapid brushstrokes yet with orderly precision.
This landscape view depicts a stream in the countryside, spanned by the remnants of an ancient bridge; washerwomen are busy at their work on the stony bank.
The painting shows signs of restoration.
It is set in a gilded frame from the mid-20th century.
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