Federico ZANDOMENEGHI
(Venice 1841 - Paris 1917)

Les deux glaces (Tra due specchi)
pastel
cm 74x60
signed bottom left and dated 1910

Exhibitions:
1) Mostra individuale di Federico Zandomeneghi, XI Biennale di Venezia, 1914, n. 29.
2) Mostra postuma di Federico Zandomeneghi, Milan, Galleria Pesaro, 1922, n. 64.
3) Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano a Parigi, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 13 September-30 October 1988.
4) Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomeneghi. Mondanità e costume nella Parigi fin de siècle, Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, 12 April-29 July 2001.
5) Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano tra gli impressionisti, Roma, Chiostro del Bramante, 5 November 2005-5 March 2006.

Bibliography:
1)"Emporium", July 1914, p. 13.
2) E. Piceni, Zandomeneghi, Mondadori, Milan, 1932. Cited on p. 244.
3) E. Piceni, Zandomeneghi, Mondadori, Milan, 1952, fig. 75.
4) M. Cinotti, Zandomeneghi, Bramante, Milan, 1960, fig. 71.
5) R. De Grada, Storia autobiografica universale della pittura moderna , Seda, Milan, 1965, vol. II, p. 381.
6) E. Piceni, Zandomeneghi, Bramante, Milan, 1967, n. 514.
7) E. Somaré. La pittura italiana dell’Ottocento (new edition), Giacomo A. Caula ed., Turin, 1984.
8) M.G. Piceni, Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano a Parigi, catalogue supplement of the exhibition held in Milan, 1988, n. 17, fig. p. 15.
9) E. Piceni, Zandomeneghi, Bramante, Busto Arsizio, 1991, n. 514, fig. XLIX.
10) Various authors, Boldini, De Nittis, Zandomeneghi…, catalogue of the exhibition held in Trento, 2001, Skira, Milan, fig. p. 167.
11) Various authors, Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano…, catalogue of the exhibition held in Rome, 2005-2006, Mazzotta, Milan, n. 41, fig. p. 113.
12) Federico Zandomeneghi, general catalogue (new ed. by Fondazione Enrico Piceni), Scheiwiller, Milan, 2006, n. 738, fig. XCIII.

This is one of Zandomeneghi's most important later works. The doubling of the female figure, the real one and its reflection, produces a perspective of particular depth. The painting is also interesting because it confirms what Mia Cinotti stated:"In pastel work Zandomeneghi retained up to the very end his huge capacity for calibrating composition, form and color; while the form may be more compacted than in his oils, the particular technique of the pastel serves to lighten it with a display of eloquent hues." (M. Cinotti, Zandomeneghi, Bramante, Milan, 1960).