Ruggero Panerai, Horses, 1890, Oil on Panel, Framed

An important oil on panel painting by the great Tuscan artist Ruggero Panerai.
It depicts one of his favourite and most successful subjects, wild horses portrayed in a natural pose of rare intensity and elegance.
This subject, one of the Macchiaioli artist's most sought-after, has become iconic in his production; the horses, portrayed in three-quarter view, show all their power, and at the same time their grace.
Signed lower right
On the frame brass label bearing the inscription R. Panerai 1862-1923.
On the back are various stamps from Italian and Parisian exhibitions.
This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive antique frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition.

Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts.
The dimensions are frame included

Ruggero Panerai (Florence, 19 March 1862 - Paris, 27 October 1923) was an Italian painter and illustrator.

At the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, which he attended from 1877 to 1881, he was taught by Giovanni Fattori who introduced him to naturalistic landscape painting of the Tuscan Maremma. Belonging to the second generation of Macchiaioli, Panerai was also attracted to military subjects and distinguished himself as an animal painter, endowed with acute sensitivity.

His impressionism - sketchy, easy, fresh, lively - was inspired by the works of Guido Carocci. He painted Strada fiorentina con carrozze (Florentine Road with Carriages), 1882, and Alla stazione (At the Station), 1885, the year in which he also painted Il passaggio degli artiglierii (The Artillerymen's Passage).

In 1885, he painted Return from the Races at the Cascine, a painting influenced by the bourgeois and worldly gaze of Giuseppe De Nittis and the manner of Vittorio Matteo Corcos.
In 1887 his painting Il guado (The Ford), presented in Venice, was destined for the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, but entered the 'Pisani' Gallery instead. Ruggero Panerai exhibited in 1887 in Genoa and Florence; then in Milan, where he won the 'Fumagalli' prize, 1911 at the Galleria d'arte moderna in Palazzo Pitti, the Galleria d'arte moderna in Milan owns Butteri in Maremma.

In 1888, he exhibited the painting Mazzeppa in Paris, a subject taken from Lord Byronːs poem of the same name; the painting depicts a small herd of horses. He was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Around the 1890s, he again portrayed subjects from 19th century Florence in a more delicate colour scheme and later painted genre scenes.

In 1892, his painting Evening was awarded a prize by the Florentine Society of Fine Arts.