Portrait Of Dominican Father By Luigi Mussini 1860 Italian Tuscan School

Portrait Of Dominican Father signed and dated by the Italian artist Luigi Mussini 1860. The fathar is portraid frontally, half-bust, with dark green background. Dressed in buttoned surplice and a white cassock rendered with masterful brushwork with iridescent, silky effect. This is a middle-aged, almost balding father, his face turned slightly to the right, his gaze is intense, stern or otherwise pensive as denounced by his frowning eyebrows and tight lips. The simplicity in the setting and the icastic rendering bring the portrait of the religious man back into the purist Tuscan painting culture of the mid-19th century.
The oil on canvas painting is in good conservation condition, comes from a private collection in Milan, and is presented within a beautiful wooden frame carved with shells, scrolls and gilded mecha.
On the back is an inscription with the author’s signature and date: L. Mussini in vitarciano? 8bre 1860.