Painting by Pietro Saporetti (Bagnacavallo 1832 - Bassano del Grappa 1893), "Emancipation of Women", second half of the 19th century.
Oil on canvas, cm 194 x 146. Signed lower right "P. Saporetti".
Exhibitions: 1883, National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, p. 92, no. 67; 1884, XLIII Exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Turin, p. 65, no. 1641; 1885, Exhibition of Fine Arts applied to the Industry of Faenza.
Bibliography: "Fornarina. Illustrated artistic literary journal", II, 10, 1883, p. 76 (illustration of Saporetti taken from the painting).
"The Emancipation of Women!... Here it is: a gathering of women occupied with the great question! But a little mouse that suddenly pops out of the wall terrifies them: the agendas, the notes, the inkwells, the question everything is turned upside down. The women run away, jump on chairs, scream. A huge and well-drawn painting"1. This is how the large vertical canvas Emancipation of Women, presented by Pietro Saporetti at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome in 1883 and then re-proposed the following year in Turin and in 1885 in Faenza, is described in a magazine of the time.
