Vittorio Matteo Corcos

Vittorio Matteo Corcos ( born October 4, 1859 in Livorno, † November 8, 1933 in Florence ) was an Italian portrait painter.

Life

Corcos attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and was trained by Enrico Pollastrini. Between 1878 and 1879 he studied in Naples at Domenico Morelli, who influenced his painting style. In 1880 he moved to Paris, where he signed a fifteen-year cooperation agreement with the art dealer Goupil & Cie. There he met Vincent van Gogh know who worked at Goupil. Corcos visited the studio of the historical and portrait painter Léon Bonnat, who was known for his portraits of women from the Parisian Society and its style of painting inspired him. French artists of Impressionism had influence on his painting, but also Giovanni Boldini and Giuseppe de Nittis who were of Italian descent.

In the years 1881, 1882 and 1885, Corcos was already so well known that his paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon. Corcos 1886 returned back to Italy in the same year and took part in an exhibition in Livorno, where the painter macchiaioli group and other regional art schools participated. In 1887 he converted to the Catholic faith - Corcos was of Jewish descent - and he married Florence Emma Ciabatti, widowed Rotigliano who introduced him to respected literary circles, where he met, for example Carducci and Gabriele D' Annunzio.

Corcos Portrait painting earned him an excellent reputation one, so he painted in Germany in 1904 portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, of the other high-ranking German personalities as well as portraits of Amélie of Orléans, Queen of Portugal and wraparound of Savoy, Queen of Italy.

In 1913, his self-portrait was taken in in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Dreams, 1896, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome

Portrait of Amélie of Orléans, 1905

Portrait of Countess Volpi di Misurata Nerina Pisani, 1906

Portrait of Eleonora Duse, nd

Girl with yellow scarf, around 1933