Giuseppe de Nittis - Buy or sell works
25 February 1846, Barletta (Italy) - 12 August 1884, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)
De Nittis trained at the Accademia in Naples under Mancinelli and Smargiassi and became a member of the Macchiaioli in Florence.
He moved to Paris in 1867 to study under Jean-Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and would stay in France for the rest of his life. He was represented by the famed Parisian art dealer Goupil, who promoted his work.
He worked with the Impressionists and became a close friend of Edgar Degas, who invited him to participate in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.
De Nittis established himself as a Belle Époque society painter in Paris in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by the free ‘plein air’ techniques of the Impressionists.