Egisto Fabbri

The Circle of Egisto Fabbri

Egisto Fabbri, a painter and collector, born in New York but of Italian origin, was on excellent terms with Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Mabel Hooper and her husband Bancel La Farge (painter John La Farge’s son) and with Impressionist painters such as Degas and Pissarro whom he met in the course of extended visits to Paris.

The faces, poses and elegant figures of these international socialites hint at a web of intricate relations.

The decision to have one’s portrait painted by an American painter trained in Europe became a fashion, almost a status symbol, among influential American families.

A comparison with Italian portrait painting, an area in which Giovanni Boldini most closely paralleled Sargent’s style-and which, in Tuscany, reached a level of international appeal in the studios of Vittorio Corcos and Michele Gordigiani-is an enlightening and fascinating exercise.

https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/percorsi/the-circle-of-egisto-fabbri/?lang=en&idmostra=912 I.S. 12/13/2017

Fabbri, E., & La, F. M. H. (1937). Egisto Fabbri, 1866-1933: With a memoir by Mabel La Farge. New Haven: Priv. Print. [Yale University Press.] http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/304489 I.S. 12/13/2017