A Man Seated and Asleep

Giuseppe Abbati · ca. 1865
This painting’s forthright realism is analogous to innovations in French art of the 1850s and 60s, which, in Italy, was the period of political unification known as the Risorgimento.

This painting’s forthright realism is analogous to innovations in French art of the 1850s and 60s, which, in Italy, was the period of political unification known as the Risorgimento.