Information about Francesco Hayez

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Franceso Hayez, self-portrait
(1842-1844), Private collection, Terni
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The Kiss (1859)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Francesco Hayez (February 10, 1791, Venice - December 21, 1882, Milan) was the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.

Hayez came from a relatively poor family. His father was of French origin while his mother, Chiara Torcella, was from Murano. The child Francisco, youngest of five sons, was brought up by his mother's sister, who had married Giovanni Binasco, a well-off shipowner and collector of art. From childhood he showed a predisposition for drawing, so his uncle apprenticed him to an art restorer. Later he becames a student of the painter Francisco Magiotto with whom he continued his studies for three years. He was admitted to the painting course of the New Academy of Fine Arts in 1806, where he studied under Teodoro Matteini. In 1809 he won a competition from the Academy of Venice for one year of study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He remained in Rome until 1814, then moved to Naples where he was commissioned by Joachim Murat to paint a major work depicting "Ulysses at the court of Alcinous". In 1850 he was appointed director of the Academy of Brera in Milan.

Assessment of the career of Hayez is complicated by the fact that he often did not sign or date his works. Often the date indicated from the evidence is that at which the work was acquired or sold, not of its creation. Moreover he often painted the same compositions several times with minimal variations, or even with no variation. His early works show the influence of Ingres and the Nazarene movement. His later work participates in the Classical revival.

Notable works include:

Petro Rosso Imprisoned by the Scaligeri (c. 1820)
A series on the Sicilian Vespers (1821-1846)
Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (c. 1867)
Portrait of Marin Faliero (1867)
Vase of flowers on the window of a harem (c. 1881)
'' The Kiss (1859) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Gallery


Family Portrait (1807)
Museo Luigi Bailo, Treviso

Aristotle (1811)
Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice

Ulysses at the court of Alcinous (1813-1815)
Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

Rinaldo and Armida (1814)
Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice

Portrait of Giuseppe Roberti (1819)
Museo Civico, Bassano

Sicilian Vespers, Scene 1 (1821-1822)
Private collection, Milan

Portrait of the family Stampa di Soncino (1821-1822)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Antonietta Vitali Sola (1823)
Private collection, Milan

Romeo and Juliet (1823)
Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo

The Penitent Mary Magdalene (1825)
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

The Patient (portrait of Carolina Zucchi) (1825)
Museo Civico, Turin

Portrait of Count Ninni (1825)
Private collection, Treviso

The Ballerina Carlotta Chabert as Venus (1830)
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento

Portrait of Don Giulio Vigoni as a Child (1830)
Private collection, Milan

Portrait of Pompeo Marchesi (1830)
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

Bath of the Nymphs (1831)
Private collection, Lugano

The Refugees from Parga (1831)
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

Bather (1832)
Private collection, Pavia

Portrait of Cristina di Belgiojoso-Trivulzio (1832)
Private collection, Florence

Bathsheba Bathing (1834)
Private collection, Lugano


The Seventh Crusade against Jerusalem (1838-1850)
Palazzo Reale, Turin

Odalisque Reclining (1839)
Private collection, Milan

Release of Vittor Pisani from the dungeon (1840)
Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo

Portrait of the princess of Sant' Antimo (1840-1844)
Museo di San Martino, Naples

Portrait of the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (1840)
Museo del Risorgimento, Milan

Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni (1841)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The Parting of the Two Foscari (1842)
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence

Melancholy Thought (1842)
Private collection, Milan

Portrait of Felicina Caglio Perego di Cremnago (1842)
Private collection, Milan

Samson and the Lion (1842)
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence

Meeting of Jacob and Esau (1844)
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

Sicilian Vespers, Scene 3 (1846)
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

Portrait of Teresa Borri Stampa Manzoni (1847-1848)
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

Portrait of Antonietta Tarsis Basilico (1851)
Private collection, Rome

Portrait of Matilde Juva-Branca (1851)
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

Portrait of a Veneitan Woman (c. 1852)
Private collection, Milan

Venetian Women (1853)
Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo

Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a child (1858)
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan
(See also the portrait of her done in 1872)

Bather viewed from behind (1859)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Female Nude (c. 1859)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Count Baglioni (c. 1860)
Private collection, Treviso

Portrait of Massimo d' Azeglio (1860)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Self-portrait at age 69 (1860)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portrait of Camillo Benso di Cavour (1864)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The New Favorite (Harem Scene) (1866)
Private collection, Milan

Odalisque with Book (1866)
Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo

The Death of the Doge Marin Faliero (1867)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (1867)
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Venice

Odalisque (1867)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Gioacchino Rossini (1870)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini, Oval (1872)
Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

Self-portrait at age 88 (1879)
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Venice

Vase of Flowers on the Window of a Harem (1881)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan


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