c. 1820-1822
Classical Scene with a Fallen Figure and a Crowd
Francesco SabatelliItalian, 1803 - 1829
Son of the better-known Florentine painter Luigi Sabatelli, Francesco obtained a pension to study in Rome at age seventeen and received a few commissions for work in churches and palaces-including a prestigious one for the Palazzo Pitti in Florence-before his death at age twenty-six in Milan from tuberculosis, the new scourge of nineteenth-century Europe. The subject of this dramatic scene is not known.
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