print
- Museum number
- 2003,0630.78
- Title
- Object: Ritratto di Luca Beltrami
- Description
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Portrait of the architect Luca Beltrami, leaning back in a chair, clasping his raised knee in both hands. 1884
Drypoint
- Production date
- 1884
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres
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Width: 158 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Martin Hopkinson, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', BMP, 2007, no. 25:
This is one of two drypoint portraits that Conconi executed in 1884 of the distinguished Milanese architect and architectural historian, Luca Beltrami (1854-1933). He was a close friend of Conconi, and under the pseudonym Polifilo, published 'Luigi Conconi nelle lettere a Luca Beltrami in Parigi 1876-1880', Milan, 1920, as well as writing the introduction to Conconi's 1920 Galleria Pesaro memorial exhibition. Conconi introduced him to etching. Beltrami's best known print, 'The Cloisters of Saint Trophime, Arles', was published in Paris by Alfred Cadart in 'L'Illustrazione Nouvelle' in 1877, and was exhibited at the Paris Salon that year. Subsequently, he used his etchings to illustrate some of his scholarly publications, most notably 'La Certosa di Pavia', Milan, 1895. Beltrami's writings on Milanese Renaissance architecture and art are still profitably consulted by students of the period. The jurist and philanthropist, Luigi Majno (1872-1915), Professor of Law at the University of Pavia, and a socialist deputy for Milan from 1900, was a major patron of Giuseppe Mentessi and other artists associated with the Scapigliatura movement. He shared Conconi's political views.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Jan.-May BM, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', cat.25
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0630.78
