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Luigi Bechi
(Firenze, 1830 - 1919)
The little spinner
oil painting on canvas
cm. 83x60.5
On the reverse, on the ink loom: "L. Bechi, Filatrice a rocca"; on the canvas, in pen: this painting depicting a young girl / sitting, seen from the front, who is graciously / spinning at the fortress, with a red shawl on / shoulders, finely drawn and painted, / is a work of exquisite nineteenth-century sentiment / by Luigi Bechi, beautiful and not of common importance./Llevlelyn Lloyd / Florence1938.