CARLO PENNACCHIETTI Porto San Giorgio 1870 - 1950 After the carnival Signed C Pennacchietti and dated 95 lower right Oil on canvas, 100X78.5 cm Provenance: Turin, private collection Exhibition: Società promotrice delle Belle Arti in Torino LIV Esposizione, Turin 1895 no. 348 p. 33 After an initial training in Brandimarte's workshop, Carlo Pennacchietti attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and later the Accademia in Florence, where he was a pupil of Giovanni Fattori. He frescoed the Church of San Giacomo Maggiore in Bologna, next to the Conservatorio di Musica, and the railway station in Rimini. As a portrait painter, he depicted members of the Savoy royal family and the political and bourgeois world of the capital. The canvas under examination depicts a young maiden languidly abandoned on an armchair, having just returned from a carnival party. Every detail of the room is described with extraordinary accuracy and abundance of detail, showing an excellent pictorial quality.