Ritratto die Emilia Morosini Zeltner

Hayez, Francesco (1791-1882)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1852

Height:

98.0 cm  (38 9/16 in.)

Width:

79.0 cm  (31 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Milano

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Description

Portrait of Emilia Morisini, née Zeltner (Solothurn, Switzerland, 1804 – Vezia near Lugano, 1875), married to Giovanni Battista Morosini (1783-1874) in 1819. She was a member of Milan's high society and a close friend of Giuseppe Verdi (after the success of "Nabucodonosor" at La Scala in Milan) from 1842 to 1848. Morosini was a fervent advocate of the Risorgimento, as were most of the Morosini family members, including her son, Emilio (1830-1849), who not only participated in the Five Days of Milan in 1848 but also joined the Lombard Bersaglieri in Piedmont (he died in 1849 in Rome due to injuries received in a battle).

People as subjects

Morosini Zeltner, Emilia (1804-1875) (Non-musician/dancer)

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Bibliographic references

Francesco Bertoliatti. Il nobile Giovanni Battista Morosini e l’indipendenza polacca (Bellinzona: Edizioni La Scuola, 1939)

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023), p 329.

Anselm Gerhard and Uwe Schweikert. Verdi-Handbuch (Berlin: Springer, 2013, 2nd ed.).

Giuseppe Martini and Pietro Montorfani. Carteggio Verdi – Morosini 1842 – 1901 (Lugano and Parma: Archivio storico della Città di Lugano and Istituto nazionale di studi verdiani, 2013).

RIdIM record id

9861