Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884) - Veduta di Schaffhausen (Svizzera )

mixed media painting on paper by Carlo Bossoli.. Lugano 1815 - Turin 1884 "View of SCHAFFHAUSEN 1860" 125 x 190 mm, signed at the bottom right, certificate.
, Carlo Bossoli consistently used graphite (black pencil or graphite) both to trace the preliminary drawing and to define the details of his watercolors and tempera works. [1, 2]
The artist, famous for his role as the "painter-reporter" of the nineteenth century, combined extraordinary documentary precision with great expressive freshness. In his travel notebooks and in the finished sheets, the black pencil (often left visible beneath the color or used over it to reinforce the outlines) meticulously defined the architectural structures, the costumes of the figures, and the scenes
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