The 19th-century Room
As its name suggests, this small room is devoted almost exclusively to Italian paintings of the 19th century, a group to which Cerruti wished to devote a specific space.
Giovanni Boldini’s Nudo sdraiato (Reclining Nude, c. 1893) is the centrepiece of a coherent series of primarily small to medium-sized works on canvas, panel and paper by artists like Antonio Fontanesi – great innovator of landscape painting – Telemaco Signorini, the divisionist painter Angelo Morbelli (whose work overlaps with the 20th century), Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattori – a leading member of the Macchiaioli group – and the artist from Milan Vittore Grubicy de Dragon.
