Three Peasant Women
by BANTI, Cristiano, Oil on canvas, 73 x 34 cm
Along with Telemaco Signorini, Silvestro Lega, and Giovanni Fattori, Cristiano Banti was one of the leading members of the ‘Macchiaioli’ group who frequented the Caff� Michelangiolo in Florence, meeting-place of progressive artists. Banti later became a teacher at the Florentine Academy.
In the Three Peasant Women, the figures are rendered in a rather abstract but luminous outdoor setting with the intimate, dreamlike character of almost Symbolist qualities.