Tito Pellicciotti, "merry Company," Signed, Oil On Panel, Early 20th Century

Tito Pellicciotti, "Merry Company," signed, oil on panel, early 20th century

Valuable oil on panel painting by Italian painter Tito Pellicciotti depicting a classical genre scene with two inn-goers, a nobleman and a brother, at an inn in a joyful moment.

The work is signed in the lower left corner.
The work is accompanied by a fine gilt frame.

Dimensions: framed H 30 x W 37 / Panel 18.5 x 20 cm.

Titian Apelle Michelangelo Pellicciotti, known as Tito (Barisciano, December 2, 1871 - Barisciano, April 12, 1950), was an Italian painter.
He was born in Barisciano in 1871 to Carlo Pellicciotti, a local sculptor who encouraged his son's artistic training, and Maria Tomassetti. In the mid-1880s he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in L'Aquila, directed by Teofilo Patini. In 1890 he moved to Naples, where he enrolled at the city's Institute of Fine Arts and studied with Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi. He then briefly entered Francesco Paolo Michetti's circle in Francavilla al Mare, but soon returned to his hometown, where he devoted himself to painting, taking on numerous commissions.

Between 1911 and 1912 he took part in the Italo-Turkish war in Libya, during which he approached Oriental painting. Returning to Italy, he organized several exhibitions in L'Aquila, Naples and Rome and participated in several group exhibitions abroad. He died in his homeland in 1950.