Carlo Pittara (1835-1890) - Confidenze

Carlo Pittara Torino 1835 - Rivara 1890. Confidenze signed with a dedication

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Piemontese, Carlo Pittara trained within the Albertina Academy of Turin following the teachings of Giuseppe Camino (1818 - 1890). In 1856 he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he specialized under the guidance of Charles Humbert (1813 – 1881), a painter known for his depictions of animals. In Geneva he met Gustave Castan (1823 - 1892) and Return to the Fold, about 1866

Between 1858 and 1860 he made a stop in Paris, where the stimuli of the 1855 Universal Exposition had not yet faded: he came into contact with Corot (1796 - 1875) and Charles Jacque (1813 -1894) and fell under the spell of the Barbizon School, which he already knew from his Geneva experience[

After Paris he spent three years in Rome. A landscape painter with Romantic and realist tastes, Pittara from 1861 was among the animators of the Rivara School, a group of artists who gathered for several summers in Rivara, in the Canavese: Ernesto Bertea, Alberto Issel, Serafín Avendaño, Antenore Soldi, Ernesto Rayper, Casimiro Teja, Federigo Pastoris. They were driven by the desire to translate onto their canvases the immediacy of the “true,” painting en plein air and renewing landscape painting, following a path similar to that pursued by the Ligurian Grey School.

With the work Sistema infallibile di ristorare le finanze italiane in 1870 Pittara wins the gold medal at the "Esposizione d'Arti Belle" in Parma

In the last ten years of his life he spends long winters in Paris, where starting from 1880 he is influenced by a certain impressionism that will also inspire the Macchiaioli and he is considered the continuation of Giuseppe De Nittis's work.

He dies on October 25, 1891 in Rivara.