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Pastel on Paper.

Signed 'Casciaro' at the lower left.

303.00mm wide    208.00mm high    (11.93 inches wide  8.19 inches high)

Private collection Italy.
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Renowned for his speciality in pastel landscapes, Giuseppe Casciaro was a graduate of the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples who enjoyed a long career of some sixty years. At the Academia, he was a pupil of Filippo Palizzi, Gioacchino Toma, Stanilao Lista and Domenico Morelli winning numerous prizes. It is possible he was inspired to take up the modus operandi of coloured chalk in 1885, when a series of pastels by the artist Francesco Paolo Michetti was shown in Naples. Indeed, two years later Casciaro exhibited a series of eleven pastel landscapes of his own.

He settled on the hillside quarter of Naples known as the Vomero, and for much of his life his favourite subject matter was views in and around Naples, as well as the islands of Capri and Ischia. Between 1892 and 1896 the artist travelled regularly to Paris where he received commissions from the dealer Adolphe Goupil. Appointed a professor at the Accademia in Naples, by 1906 he was chosen as a tutor in pastel drawing to Elena di Savoia, the Queen of Italy. Casciaro not only exhibited frequently in Naples and Venice but also in Paris , Munich, Barcelona, Prague, Athens and St Petersburg, as well as in San Francisco, Tokyo and in South America.

This view of the island of Capri is an exceptionally fine and fresh example of Casciaro’s mastery of the pastel medium.