Filippo Palizzi

Filippo Palizzi is considered the leading Neapolitan animal painter of the Italian Ottocento. Known as a painter of horses in particular, the herd in the present work, is captured in various states of movement, each horse with a distinct character. The exacting observation shows the artist's painstaking and empathetic attention to detail and his mature handling of spatial recession and palette. Another version of the present work with a more cropped composition, now in the collection of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Rome, reveals the artist's interest in the subject.