The artist's painting Peter Welcome (Arezzo, 8 January 1769 - Florence, 3 February 1844) is to be considered an "excellent youthful work" (Fornasari), datable between 1800 and 1802, made in the Urbe, where ours lived from 1792 to 1804, the year in which he received from the Queen of Etruria the appointment of Director and Professor of the Painting Class of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Within its original gilt wood and pill frame, with passe-partout round.
Signed on the boulder, lower right: P. Welcome.f.
File edited by L. Fornasari.
Publications
U. Viviani, The works of the Arezzo painter Pietro Benvenuti, in Arezzo and the Arezzo people. Pages collected by Dr. Ugo Viviani, Arezzo 1921, p.180.
L. Fornasari, Peter Welcome, Edifir, Florence 2004, fig. no. 129.
provenance:
The painting was done for a Sicilian duke (Fornasari 2004, p. 151); don Alessandro Borghese collection; Rome, private collection
Exhibitions:
The first '800 Italian. Painting between past and future. (Milan, Palazzo Reale 20 February – 3 May 1992) edited by R. Barilli, p. 134.
Imperial painter. Pietro Welcome to the court of Napoleon and the Lorraines. (Florence, Palazzo Pitti 10 March – 21 June 2009), edited by L. Fornasari and C. Sisi, catalog n. 45.
