Pietro Scoppetta Art

A Night in Paris is an original decorative object realized by Pietro Scoppetta in 1911. Mixed media on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower left corner: Pietro Scoppetta 1911. A frame is included. Very good conditions. Very elegant, beautiful impressionistic work realized in the first years of the XX Century by the important Italian artist Pietro Scoppetta. The work is characterized by a very impressionistic stroke and touch and depicts a scene during a Parisian night. The figures of the woman in the streets are only sketched but we can feel the elegance and the beauty of the Paris during the fin du siècle. The work has been realized by Pietro Scoppetta (Amalfi, 1863 - Neaples, 1920) an Italian artist. He dedicated himself initially to architectural studies, he abandoned them to form artistically, under the guidance of Giacomo Di Chirico. Resident in Naples, he had the opportunity to live in a climate of strong movements of cultural evolution. Scoppetta decided to leave Italy for abroad, and stayed a long time in London and Paris. In Paris, where he lived between 1897 and 1903, he joined the large group of Neapolitan painters, attracted by the bourgeois suggestions of the Belle Époque, including Lionello Balestrieri...