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Portrait of Pompeo Marchesi - Francesco Hayez
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Description
A focused, psychological portrait of the sculptor Pompeo Marchesi by the Italian Romantic painter Francesco Hayez.
This portrait depicts the sculptor Pompeo Marchesi, a contemporary and associate of the painter Francesco Hayez. Hayez, a leading figure in the Italian Romantic movement, captures his subject with a direct, psychological intensity. The composition focuses on the sitter's head and shoulders, set against a textured, neutral background that directs the viewer's attention to the facial features. Hayez employs a controlled palette of earth tones, browns, and blacks, which creates a sense of gravity and sobriety. The brushwork is precise, particularly in the rendering of the sitter's dark, tousled hair and the fabric of his coat. The high white collar provides a sharp contrast, framing the face and drawing the eye to the subject's steady gaze. This work reflects the artist's ability to balance technical accuracy with an evocative, personal quality. Pompeo Marchesi was a notable neoclassical sculptor, and this portrait serves as a record of the professional and social circles Hayez inhabited in Milan. The painting avoids excessive ornamentation, relying instead on the interplay of light and shadow to define the form. The artist's approach to portraiture during this period often involved a careful study of the sitter's character, resulting in images that feel both immediate and composed. The subtle modulation of tone across the skin and the careful treatment of the dark clothing demonstrate the technical proficiency that defined Hayez's career. This print offers a clear reproduction of the original oil painting, preserving the tonal depth and the specific character of the brushwork.
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Each print is produced to order using 12-colour giclée printing on FSC-certified archival paper. Designed in Britain and printed at your nearest production hub to reduce waste and speed up delivery.
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Portrait of Pompeo Marchesi - Francesco Hayez
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From £28.00 GBP
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From £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
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Every Solis piece is made to order with archival, gallery-quality materials built to last.
- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
- Framed prints arrive ready to hang
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Materials & Sizing
Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Every piece is printed to order. These are the five finishes, and what makes each one different.
Fine Art Framed
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
Premium Box Frame
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
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Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
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Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Artist Biography
Francesco Hayez
The Kiss is a political painting disguised as a love scene. Hayez painted it in 1859, the year Piedmont and France allied against Austria, and the couple's medieval costumes encode a message about Italian unification that his audience understood immediately. He painted three versions. In the 1920s, Perugina, the chocolate manufacturer, adapted the image for the box of its "Baci" chocolates, where it remains today.
Hayez was born in Venice in 1791, the youngest of five sons. His father was a fisherman of French origin; his mother came from Murano. The family was poor enough that the boy was placed with an uncle, the antiquarian Giovanni Binasco, who hoped to train him as a restorer. Instead, Hayez won a scholarship to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1809, where he spent long hours studying Raphael in the Vatican Stanze and visiting the workshop of the sculptor Antonio Canova.
He settled in Milan in 1820 and became the leading figure of Italian Romanticism. His large historical paintings, depicting subjects from medieval Italian history, functioned as allegorical commentary on the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unification. The use of historical costume allowed him to evade Austrian censorship while communicating patriotic ideas that his Milanese audience decoded without difficulty.
In 1850 he became director of the Brera Academy, a position he held for decades. He rarely signed or dated his works, and often painted the same composition multiple times with minimal variation, which has complicated scholarly assessment. He died in Milan in 1882, at ninety, having witnessed the unification he had painted.
Hayez was born in Venice in 1791, the youngest of five sons. His father was a fisherman of French origin; his mother came from Murano. The family was poor enough that the boy was placed with an uncle, the antiquarian Giovanni Binasco, who hoped to train him as a restorer. Instead, Hayez won a scholarship to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1809, where he spent long hours studying Raphael in the Vatican Stanze and visiting the workshop of the sculptor Antonio Canova.
He settled in Milan in 1820 and became the leading figure of Italian Romanticism. His large historical paintings, depicting subjects from medieval Italian history, functioned as allegorical commentary on the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unification. The use of historical costume allowed him to evade Austrian censorship while communicating patriotic ideas that his Milanese audience decoded without difficulty.
In 1850 he became director of the Brera Academy, a position he held for decades. He rarely signed or dated his works, and often painted the same composition multiple times with minimal variation, which has complicated scholarly assessment. He died in Milan in 1882, at ninety, having witnessed the unification he had painted.
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