Paolo Vetri

Paolo Vetri
Castrogiovanni (Enna, Sicily), 1855 - Naples, 1937

Sepia-colored pastel drawing (or sanguine pencil), signed in the lower right; not dated, but circa late 19th or early 20th century.
Measures 24x17 cm (image, excluding passepartout and frame); in old original mounting and framing. Ex private collection from Puglia.

The bibliography on Vetri is extensive, widely cataloged and present among the major southern painters, a pupil of Domenico Morelli, with whom he also established a family bond and married his daughter Eleonora, a teacher for many years at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples...
He executed fresco mural decorations and paintings and tempera also in numerous churches in Ragusa, Molfetta, Naples, Cosenza, Amalfi
"...infrequent signature, with a limited easel production,...excellent drawings, especially of figures, in sanguine, pen and charcoal, generally faces and portraits very close...to the Morellian style...." (G.L. Marini)