An Italian Impressionist in Paris

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The Phillips Collection, in collaboration with the Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis, the City of Barletta, Italy, and the Puglia Region (Italy), is organizing the first exhibition in the US devoted to the work of Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884), an Italian painter whose career flourished in Impressionist Paris in the 1870s and 1880s. 

The exhibition will only be shown at the Phillips where it will feature approximately 70 artworks. Although not well known outside of Italy, De Nittis is a central figure to the aesthetic and institutional upheavals of 1870s Paris. His urban scenes of Paris feature innovative arrangements and plein air subjects painted with a detailed realism that depicts a sophisticated and economically booming city—a choice unique to De Nittis’s work. 

New research will be presented in the exhibition about De Nittis’s friendships with Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, and his early collaborations in Naples with a young Gustave Caillebotte. 

Work from all periods of De Nittis’s career will be featured along with select works by his most important artist friends in Paris.

Credit: Overview from museum website

Image: Giuseppe De Nittis, Breakfast in the Garden, 1884, Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 46 in., Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis, Barletta, Italy