SCAPPETTA Pietro
THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE IN PARIS
Oil on canvas: 12.5 x 19.5 cm / 4.9 x 7.7 in
Signed and situated 'Paris' lower right
Painter of figures, portraits, genre scenes and landscapes; watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator and poet.
Pietro Scappetta was a pupil of the Instituto di Bella Arti in Naples. He also studied with Giacomo di Chirico. He made his debut in 1880 and exhibited in Naples, Venice and Milan (1918).
Period:
Amalfi 1863 - Naples 1920
Italian School
Exhibitions:
Naples
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionay of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 12, p. 501.
