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Painting by Giovanni Boldini
Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi
is an 1886 pastel
portrait
of
Giuseppe Verdi
by the Italian artist
Giovanni Boldini
, now in the
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
, in
Rome
.
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History
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In March 1886, Verdi was in Paris to hear on stage
Victor Maurel
, the baritone approached for the role of Iago in Verdi's opera
Otello
. Boldini was one of
Emanuele Muzio
's best friends, who had long dreamed of seeing his master pose for the painter. This was done during a visit by Verdi accompanied by Muzio and
Giuseppina Strepponi
to the Pigalle workshop during which Boldini made a first portrait after a series of long poses. The oil on canvas, hung on the wall of the living room of the Doria Palace, the Winter residence of the Verdi couple in Genoa, is now kept in the
Casa di Riposo per Musicisti
in Milan.
Dissatisfied with the result, Boldini remade the portrait of Verdi on 9 April 1886, using the pastel technique, in just five hours. The painter first kept this portrait to present it at the
Exposition Universelle of 1889
in Paris, in
Brussels
in 1897, and at the first
Venice Biennale
in 1895, to finally give it to the
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
in Rome in 1918.
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