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42.  The CARPET SELLER


          Artist: Julio ROSATTI, Italian, (1853 - 1917)
          Execution date (approximate): 1904
          Téchnique: Watercolor on Cardboard, (signed lower right)
          Measures: 52 x 73 cm.
          Description: Rosatti depicting with intense colors, a Young Lady accompanied by her
          servant and trying to choose a carpet. A carpet seller trying to convince a Young Lady to
          buy a beautiful carpet.


          Biography
          Julio Rosatti was born in Rome in 1858. He was an academic painter from the School of
          Rome. He formed himself in the Academy of San Luca, where he was mentored by artists
          such as Dario Querci, Francesco Podesti and the Spanish painter Luis Alvarez Catalá.
          He painted some pieces on oil, but his main attributes are given to his use of aquarelles,
          making him one of the most important Italian aquarellists of his time. He was also one of
          the most prolific Orientalist painters of the epoch of transition from the 19th to the 20th
          century. From the beginning of his career, he was inclined towards the Orientalist theme,
          which eventually became his favourite. His most dominant scenes included places and
          persons from the Maghreb countries, all of them full of light and with many colours. There
          are no official sources of his travels to the Maghreb region, hence the deduction that he
          used photographs and other objects pertaining to the region, that could be found in Rome
          at the time, as an influence for his paintings.
          His most acknowledged and successful work was ‘The Selection of the Favourite’, theme
          of which he produced two versions. His artwork is present in museums and in public and
          private collections all over the world.
          He had a son, Alberto Rosatti, who was also an acclaimed painter. Julio died in Rome in 1917..





































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