About the artist
Giovanni Boldini, son of a small-time restorer and painter from Ferrara, started his art journey at the Accademia in Florence in 1862. His interaction with the Macchiaioli, a group opposing the rigid academic art system, encouraged his open-air painting. Notably, in 1870, he created landscape frescoes for the Villa ‘La Falconiera’. Though his forte was portrait painting, showcased early in his career. He secured multiple portrait projects in London in 1870, and a year later, he made Paris his home. With a unique style of vivid, elegant society portraits, Boldini soon gained fame among Parisian high society. His affiliation with well known art dealer Adolphe Goupil and his peers such as Paul-César Helleu and John Singer Sargent boosted his prominence. Eventually, he became a leading portraitist of the Belle Epoque, equaling his friend Sargent's fame in London.
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