Antique oil painting on cardboard depicting a young officer in an elegant military uniform, attributable to the Lombard school of the second half of the 19th century. The work shows strong references to Lombard Risorgimento painting and the figurative culture of the Induno brothers, famous interpreters of Italian 19th-century patriotic and bourgeois sensibility.
The subject is depicted in a bust, with a composed pose and direct gaze, in line with the taste of bourgeois and military portraiture of the Risorgimento period. The dark uniform with silver epaulets, rows of metal buttons, and decorative details recalls Italian military circles of the Risorgimento period. The pictorial rendering highlights an academic approach typical of 19th-century Lombard portraiture.
The work is executed in oil on pressed cardboard, a solution frequently used in Lombard painting of the time for studies, private portraits, and interior works.
37.5 x 44.5 cm with frame
32.5 x 24 cm without frame
