Pio Joris: Neapolitan/Roman Woman Portrait - Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas depicting a portrait of a Neapolitan or Roman common woman, by Pio Joris (Rome, 1843 - 1921). The work is on its original canvas with its original gilded frame, complete with a brass plate. Signed. Pio Joris, Roman painter, watercolorist and engraver, trained at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Academy of San Luca. In 1861, at the I National Exhibition of Fine Arts, he was attracted by the veristic innovations of Neapolitan and Tuscan painters. A pupil and friend of Achille Vertunni in 1866, he met Morelli, Palizzi and other exponents of the Resina school. Influenced by Mariano Fortuny and, during a stay in Paris, by De Nittis and Impressionism. He died in Rome in 1921.