Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia (5 August 1848 in Rome – 23 February 1927 in Rome) was an Italian painter.1
She was a pupil of her father, Roberto Bompiani, and of the professors in the Accademia di San Luca.2 She was an accomplished watercolorist.3
The following paintings in watercolor established her reputation as an artist: Confidential Communication ( (1885); the Fortune-Teller (1887); A Public Copyist (1888); and The Wooing (1888).4
Along with Alceste Campriani, Ada Negri, Juana Romani, and Erminia de Sanctis, Bompiani is named as one of Italy's best modern painters.5
Gallery
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Woman with tambourine -
Shepherd Boy -
Italian Peasant Woman at a Well
References
References
- Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Aagaard - Heideck (in German). 1895.
- La vita italiana rivista illustrata (in Italian). 1896.
- Allgemeine Kunstchronik: ill. Zeitschr. für Kunst, Kunstgewerbe, Musik, Theater u. Litteratur (in German). 1888.
- Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 47. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Cronau, Rudolf (1919). Woman Triumphant: The Story of Her Struggles for Freedom, Education, and Political Rights. Dedicated to All Noble-minded Women by an Appreciative Member of the Other Sex (Public domain ed.). R. Cronau. pp. 237–.