Giovanni Boldini - Highway of Combes-la-Ville [1873]

Giovanni Boldini - Highway of Combes-la-Ville [1873], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, December 31, 1842 - Paris, July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter. Boldini attained great success in London as a portraitist. From 1872 he lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He also became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Impressionist influence but which most closely resembles the work of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu. 

[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 101.4 cm]