Portrait of a young woman
Oil on panel
20.5 x 10.5 cm
Signed lower right
Roberto Fontana (Milan, 1844 -1907) was one of the young, rebellious and nonconformist members of the Scapigliatura cultural movement, formed in Italy in the second half of the 19th century, who looked at existence with a keen eye, constantly searching for an underlying link between physical reality and the psychic world.