Bidspirit auction | Luigi Olivetti. Italian Antique Orig.

Luigi Olivetti. Italian Antique Orig. Etching ”Roma Villa Borghese” Signed in Pencil - Luigi Olivetti. Italian Antique Orig. Etching ”Roma Villa Borghese” Signed in Pencil lower left also in the plate End of the 19th – Early of the 20th Cen. Dimensions: 18 x 24 cm. (7 x 9.4″) Dimensions with field: 31.5 x 41.5 cm. (12.4 x 16.3″) Age wear, foxing stains – see photos Luigi Olivetti (Revere, Lombardy, November 11, 1856 – Tivoli, circa 1941) was an Italian painter, both in oil and watercolor, and engraver. His secular birth name was Luigi Giacomo Angelo. He was a resident of Rome, and late in life, moved to Tivoli. In 1883, a Rome, exhibited a watercolor titled: Città, and in 1884 at Turin, at the National Exhibition he exhibited Cecilia la Guida delle Catacombe; La figlia del Borgomastro, and Ricordi of the Brettagna. He painted the genre painting: Ragazza sullo sfondo di Tivoli.