Excellent original watercolor and frame.
Alberto Pisa Watercolor Painting Woman With Her Chickens (18641931) Italian. Frame Is 18x24 ..

Pisa was born in Ferrara on 19 March 1864 and studied the works of Gaetano Domenichini, the then recently deceased Italian artist. He moved to Florence where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts; he also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

He joined the Macchiaioli movement then gaining popularity in Florence who eschewed the academic principals of painting and concentrated on working from nature in natural light, finding inspiration in the contrast of light and shadow. (The term Macchiaioli, when created by an Italian critic, was meant to be derogatory.)

Pisa had a rather more successful career than some of his contemporaries, who died in penury. His work gained in popularity around the turn of the century when it was well reviewed inThe Timesfollowing an exhibition of paintings and drawings of London life at the Fine Art Society, London, in April 1899. Some of his watercolours of Rome and Tuscany were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rome in 1905.

His paintings also began to appear as book illustrations. He illustrated books onRome(1905),Pompeii(1910) and Sicily (1911) for London publisher A. & C. Black Cities of Umbria (London, Methuen & Co., 1905) andPeeps at Many Lands: Italy by John Finnemore (London, A. & C. Black, 1916).

He continued to exhibit until 1927 and died in Florence on 15 July 1930.