820 - Vincenzo Irolli, "Im Weinkeller", young maid tapping red wine from a cask, Neapolitan genre painting

Vincenzo Irolli, "Im Weinkeller", young maid tapping red wine from a cask, Neapolitan genre painting (1860 Naples – 1949 Naples), watercolour on paper, signed lower left "V. Irolli", inscribed "Vincenzo Irolli" on a plaque on the frame, cellar interior with stone wall, a young maid drawing red wine from a large barrel, orange headscarf, light blouse, wide blue skirt gathered up at the side, wooden tub under the tap, in front of it a large green vessel with two handles, on the right a round straw-coloured disc on a wooden trestle with glass bottles beneath and a broom leaning against it, on the wall a hanging wicker bottle, on the left a dark passage, good condition commensurate with age, at the right edge of the demijohn the upper paint or paper layer is lifting, image 40x30 cm (HxW), mount, framed, gold-coloured shaped frame with rocaille and leaf ornaments, frame with losses, retouched, frame width 4.5 cm Vincenzo Irolli was born in Naples on 30 September 1860 and studied from 1877 at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli under Gioacchino Toma and Federico Maldarelli. As early as 1879 he exhibited for the first time at the Promotrice in Naples and in the same year won the first prize of the Promotrice Salvator Rosa. Circa 1889/90 he worked together with Vincenzo Migliaro, Vincenzo Caprile and other painters on the decoration of the Caffè Gambrinus in Naples. His works were shown in Munich, Berlin, Rome and Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon in 1907 and at the Salon d'Automne in 1909, and in the years around 1910 he was regarded as the "painter of the sun". In his genre painting he created in oil and watercolour, besides religious subjects, above all scenes of everyday Neapolitan life, pictures of children and portraits of young women, for whom his goddaughter Sisina sat as a model. Works by him are held by, among others, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples and the Museo Revoltella in Trieste. He died in his home town on 27 November 1949.