Luigi Bechi

(Firenze, 1830 - 1919)

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.