Giovanni BOLDINI
(Ferrara 1842 - Paris 1931)

Giuseppe Verdi
portrait
pencil drawing
cm 26x20

Exhibitions:
1) Boldini, Paris Musée Jacquemart-André, March-July, 1963.
2) Giovanni Boldini, Ferrara, Casa Romei, 25 July-31 October, 1963.
3) Giovanni Boldini, Pistoia, Convento di San Domenico, 1984.

Bibliography:
1) E. Piceni, Dieci anni fra quadri e scene, Bramante, Milan, 1961, fig. 29.
2) E. Piceni and others, Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Paris, 1963, n. 18.
3) E. Piceni and others, Giovanni Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Ferrara, Bramante, Milan, 1963, fig. 8.
4) E. Piceni, Tra libri e quadri, Ceschina, Milan, 1971, fig. VIII.
5) M. Monteverdi, Storia della Pittura Italiana dell'800, Bramante, Milan, 1975, vol. II, fig. 835.
6) E. Piceni, Boldini. L'uomo e l'opera, Bramante, Busto Arsizio, 1981, fig. 63.
7) E. Piceni and others, Giovanni Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Pistoia, 1984, fig. p. 97.

Bibliography:
1) E. Piceni, Dieci anni fra quadri e scene, Bramante, Milan, 1961, fig. 29.
2) E. Piceni and others, Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Paris, 1963, n. 18.
3) E. Piceni and others, Giovanni Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Ferrara, Bramante, Milan, 1963, fig. 8.
4) E. Piceni, Tra libri e quadri, Ceschina, Milan, 1971, fig. VIII.
5) M. Monteverdi, Storia della Pittura Italiana dell'800, Bramante, Milan, 1975, vol. II, fig. 835.
6) E. Piceni, Boldini. L'uomo e l'opera, Bramante, Busto Arsizio, 1981, fig. 63.
7) E. Piceni and others, Giovanni Boldini, catalogue of the exhibition held in Pistoia, 1984, fig. p. 97.

This drawing is a preparatory study for the famous portrait of Verdi that Boldini donated in 1918 to the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. A much smaller pen drawing is now in the Museum of the Scala Theater in Milan.