FILOSA Giovanni Battista
MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE RIVERSIDE
Watercolour on paper: 32 x 49 cm / 12.6 x 19.3 ins
Signed lower right
Painter of genre scenes; watercolourist.
Giovanni Battista Filosa was a pupil of Domenico Morelli.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1875 and 1882 and subsequently in Turin in 1887, in Venice in 1895 and in Florence in 1896.
Period:
Castellammare di Stabia (Campania) 1850 - Resina (Campania) 1935
Italian School
Exhibitions:
Clamecy - Glasgow
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 5, p. 712.
G. Bolaffi, "Dizionario enciclopedico dei pittori e degli incisori italiani", Torino 1973, Vol. 4, p. 462.