Antonino Leto (1844-1913), Attrib. - Le saline di Trapani

Painting attributed to Antonino Leto signed at the bottom left - in watercolor and tempera on cardboard depicting a view of the salt pans of Trapani.
With the frame it measures 36 cm in width and 31 cm in height.
The artwork alone measures 21 cm in width and 16 cm in height.
Provenance: private family collection.
Antonino Leto (Monreale, June 14, 1844 – Capri, May 31, 1913) was an Italian figurative painter, adherent to the Verist movement.
He trained in Naples, at the school of the macchiaiolo Adriano Cecioni. Of frail health, he was in Rome in 1874, following his winning of the Competition for the Artistic Pension of that city, where he befriended Francesco Paolo Michetti. Moving to Florence, again for health reasons, he studied the lesson of the Macchiaioli, before going to Paris, where he frequented Giuseppe De Nittis and Federico Rossano.
At the end of the Parisian experience, in 1880 he stayed in Portici and then in Sicily. Two years later he was in Capri, where he dedicated himself to portraying with vibrant colors of light the most characteristic corners of the island and its inhabitants as they carried out their occupations. He taught several local artists, among them Michele Federico and Felice Giordano. With these luminous paintings he participated in national and international exhibitions, where he enjoyed great public and critical success. In 1889 he was present at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
In 1899 he settled definitively in Capri, where he died on May 31, 1913. The following year a retrospective exhibition of his work was organized in Venice, which was repeated in 1924.
Leto, together with Francesco Lojacono and Michele Catti, forms the canonical triad of 19th-century Sicilian landscape painting.
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