Federico ZANDOMENEGHI
(Venice 1841 - Paris 1917)

Tête de femme
pastel
cm 46x38
signed top right

Exhibitions:
1) Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano a Parigi, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 13 September-30 October 1988.
2) Renoir, dall'Italia alla Costa Azzurra, 1881-1919, Rome, Museo del Risorgimento, Palazzo del Vittoriano, 31 March-25 July 1999.
3) Zandomeneghi, De Nittis, Renoir. I pittori della felicità, Barletta, Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis, 31 March-15 July 2007.

Bibliography:
1) E. Piceni, Zandomeneghi, Bramante, Milan, 1967, n. 178.
2) M. G. Piceni, Federico Zandomeneghi. Un veneziano a Parigi, catalogue supplement of the exhibition held in Milan, 1988, Mazzotta, Milan, n. 3, fig. p. 5.
3) F. Dini, Federico Zandomeneghi, Il Torchio, Florence, 1989, n. 105, fig. CXIX.
4) Various authors, Renoir, dall'Italia alla Costa Azzurra, 1881-1995, catalogue of the exhibition held in Rome, 1999, Skira, Milan, fig. p. 159.
5) Federico Zandomeneghi, general catalogue (new edition by Fondazione Enrico Piceni), Scheiwiller, Milan, 2006, n. 518.
6) Various authors, Zandomeneghi, De Nittis, Renoir. I pittori.., catalogue of the exhibition held in Barletta, 2007, Skira, Milan, n. 60, fig. p. 128.

The female profile, a favorite theme of the painter, dominates this pastel thanks to the refined use of the hues. In the upper half of the work they are surrounded by a pinkish light, while in the lower part they contrast with the sudden transition from the black of the chair to the white of the perfectly delineated design of the shawl. The delightful decoration of the lilac flowers on the girl's head remind us that Zandomeneghi had worked as a fashion designer on first settling in Paris, even though this work was executed when the artist had already started working for Durand-Ruel.