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conference > Giuseppe De Nittis: A Master Between Italy and France

The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. have the pleasure to invite you to the conference “Giuseppe De Nittis: A Master Between Italy and France”.

The conference is organized as a complementary event to the exhibition “An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis” hosted at The Phillips Collection and open to the public through February 12, 2023.

During the conference the curator of the exhibit, Prof. Renato Miracco and Prof. Jonathan Bober (A.W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) will illustrate the life and artwork of De Nittis. After a brief presentation of the exhibition at The Phillips Collection, the scholars will explore Giuseppe De Nittis’ works and style with a particular focus on his etchings and prints. Dr. Susan Behrends Frank (The Phillips Collection, curator) will moderate the event and the public will be invited to present their questions to the panel.

     

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LOCATION
EMBASSY OF ITALY
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

 

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Giuseppe De Nittis was, together with an entire generation of artists of the time, a great experimenter in the subjects and techniques of reproduction such as etching, which, from the second half of the 1800s, thanks to the fundamental support of critics and writers such as Baudelaire, Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, Victor Hugo, and Emile Zola, experienced an interesting rebirth. Giuseppe De Nittis, having entered his establishment, was among the first Italian artists who consented to the reproduction of his most famous paintings.

Alongside these prints, of a popular nature, from 1873, De Nittis began to use the drypoint, often combined with engraving and etching. These technical innovations got him admitted into the prestigious Société des Aquafortistes, founded by Alfred Cadart and by the printer Auguste Delâtre, who published a series of his etchings in 1874 in the volume L’Eau-forte moderne.

From 1875 onwards, De Nittis thus worked in Alfred Cadart’s studio side by side with Degas and, with another Impressionist artist, Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, on a new and unexplored creation of etchings. Thus, if initially etching was synonymous with serial production, Degas and De Nittis, with Marcellin Desboutin and Lepic, began to conceive an entirely personal path with the complex realization of monotypes, unique works, pulled from the same plate but in which the process of execution changed each time.

 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION 

The exhibition dedicated to the Italian impressionist Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884), a central figure in the history of modernism and 19th-century European art, is the first of its kind organized in the United States.

The exhibition has been organized by The Phillips Collection in collaboration with the Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis in Barletta, the Municipality of Barletta (Comune di Barletta ), and Regione Puglia, with the support of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, as well as the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Culture, due to its high cultural, artistic and historical significance.

The exhibition is the first to explore De Nittis’s relationships with Degas, Manet and the young Gustave Caillebotte, in order to give a more complex understanding of Impressionism in the 1870s and 1880s. It was initially conceived by Prof. Renato Miracco, guest curator at Phillips and curator of the De Nittis Pinacoteca in Barletta, and comprehends 73 artworks from Italy, France and the United States, 32 of which are on loan from Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis in Barletta, the artist’s birthplace. It is the first time that the Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis has shared the artist’s works outside European borders.

  

JONATHAN BOBER

JONATHAN BOBER

Jonathan Bober is the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, where he had previously served as Curator of Old Master Prints (2011-16). From 1987 to 2011 he was Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, adding responsibility for European paintings in 1998. He also taught as senior lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History and, from 1997 to 2009, as visiting professor in the graduate school of the University of Milan. Bober’s principal scholarly interests and publications concern the art of North Italy in the 16th and 17th century, in particular the schools of Lombardy and Genoa. His most recent exhibition project, A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750, was organized for the National Gallery but held at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, this past summer. His interest in late 19th-century Italian prints and drawings––including the etchings of De Nittis––has been expressed to date in the formation of a collection at the National Gallery that is unique outside of Italy.

 

SUSAN BEHRENDS FRANK

Susan Behrends Frank

Susan Behrends Frank, Curator at The Phillips Collection, earned her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Iowa with an award-winning dissertation on Spanish and French Surrealism that focused on the film collaborations in the 1920s/early 1930s of Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel. During her 25-year career at The Phillips she has curated and overseen more than 20 exhibitions, including projects drawn from the museum’s historical collection, which have traveled to Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. Dr. Frank was co-curator of the internationally acclaimed 2021-2022 exhibition Picasso: Painting the Blue Period that The Phillips Collection co-organized with the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). She has lectured widely in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris where she presented in 2018 on Picasso’s interest in the work of the French 19th century painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Among Dr. Frank’s books are American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape (2007), David Smith Invents (2011), Made in the USA: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970 (2014) and Picasso: Painting the Blue Period (2021). She is co-curator with Renato Miracco of the current special exhibition at The Phillips, An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis, which is the first exhibition on De Nittis ever organized in the U.S.

 

RENATO MIRACCO

Renato Miracco

Renato Miracco (born 1953) is a scholar, art critic, and curator from Naples, Italy. Formerly the Cultural Attaché of the Italian Embassy in Washington, he is presently the member of the Board of Guarantors for the Italian Academy at Columbia University. Miracco has lectured at Pratt Institute and other universities and institutions across the globe and has curated exhibitions at prestigious museums and collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, Centre Pompidou, the Estorick Collection, and the Tate Modern. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for Cultural Achievements in 2018.

 

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