Giovanni Boldini – A Portrait of Emiliana Concha de Ossa – unknown
From Robilant and Voena
Giovanni Boldini – From Robilant and Voena – unknown
Lady Lina Bilitis with two Pekinese
Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of a Lady Lina Bilitis with two Pekinese -1913
Madame Juillard in red
Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of Madame Juillard in red -1912
Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge
Giovanni Boldini – Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge – 1905
Emiliana Concha de Ossa
Giovanni Boldini – Emiliana Concha de Ossa -1901
On A Day Bed
Giovanni Boldini – Reclining Nude on a Day Bed – 1900
Lady Colin Campbell
Giovanni Boldini – Lady Colin Campbell – 1897
Countess de Martel de Janville
Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of the Countess de Martel de Janville, known as Gypsy -1894
Morning Letter
Giovanni Boldini – Morning Letter – 1894
Lina Cavalieri
Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of Lina Cavalieri – 1901
Josefina Errázuriz Alvear
Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of Josefina Errázuriz Alvear -1892
Girl with a Black Cat
Giovanni Boldini – Girl with a Black Cat – 1885
Lady Admiring a Fan
Giovanni Boldini – Lady Admiring a Fan – 1878
Giovanni Boldini Week at TechnoChitlins
It’s going to be hard following that last batch of pictures, but, here goes-
From InfoGalactic-
Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 in Ferrara, Italy – 11 July 1931 in Paris, France) was an Italian genre and portrait painter. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the “Master of Swish” because of his flowing style of painting.[1]
Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini’s landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.
Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist. He completed portraits of premier members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster.[2] From 1872 he lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He also became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Macchiaioli influence and the style reminds us the work of younger artists, such as John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu. He was nominated commissioner of the Italian section of the Paris Exposition in 1889, and received the Légion d’honneur for this appointment.
A Boldini portrait of his former muse Marthe de Florian, a French actress, was discovered in a Paris flat in late 2010, hidden away from view on the premises that were unvisited for 70 years. The portrait has never been listed, exhibited or published and the flat belonged to de Florian’s granddaughter who went to live in the South of France at the outbreak[3] of the Second World War and never returned.[4] A love-note and a biographical reference to the work painted in 1888, when the actress was 24, cemented its authenticity. The full length portrait of the lady in the same clothing and accessories, but less provocative, hangs in the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Boldini was a painter at a special, sad time in Western history- that last few decades before the Great Wars of the Twentieth Century upended the civilization. The French knew it as La Belle Époque, the British as the Edwardian Era, America, The Gilded Age… that time upon which it is easy to look back in longing as a happier, more civilized time (though for many, it wasn’t).
Here is a vignette of some of “the beautiful people” of that era- the dancers at the end of time.