Self-Portrait in a Group of Friends
by HAYEZ, Francesco, Oil on canvas, 33 x 30 cm
This painting has been defined as “one of the pictorial manifestoes of Romanticism in Milan”, for it portrays the thirty-six years old painter surrounded by some of the most representative figures of Milanese Romanticism. The represented friends are the painters Giovanni Migliara, Pelagio Palagi and Giuseppe Molteni, and the writer Tommaso Grossi.