Giacomo Favretto
(1849–1887) Italian painter (1849-1887)
Giacomo Favretto (1849–1887) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Giacomo Favretto belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.
Giacomo Favretto was born in Venice and died in Venice. Giacomo Favretto trained at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Giacomo Favretto worked in Kingdom of Italy and Venice. The students included Tommaso Pasquotti.
The best-known works include ‘After the bath’, ‘The female seller of poultry and eggs’, and ‘Today's walk in St.Mark Place’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and folklore. The catalogue has 24 works by Giacomo Favretto with free images. The dated works span the years 1870–1887. Works by Giacomo Favretto are held by several collections, among them Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Nikolaus Geiger, Julien Dillens, Carl Fredrik Hill, Robert Barrett Browning, and Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench.