Emancipation of women - Pietro Saporetti (1832 - 1893)

Painting by Pietro Saporetti (Bagnacavallo 1832 - Bassano del Grappa 1893) entitled "Emancipation of women".

Oil on canvas, 194 x 146 cm. Signed lower right "P. Saporetti".



Exhibitions: 1883, National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, p. 92, no. 67; 1884, XLIII Exhibition of the Turin Fine Arts Promoting Society, p. 65, no. 1641; 1885, Exhibition of Fine Arts Applied to Industry in Faenza.

Bibliography: «Fornarina. Illustrated Literary Artistic Journal», II, 10, 1883, p. 76 (illustration by Saporetti taken from the painting).

“Women's Emancipation!... There you have it: a gathering of women dealing with the big issue! But a little mouse that suddenly emerges from 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. An immense and well-designed picture»1. This is how the large vertical canvas Emancipation of the Woman was described in a magazine of the time, 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.