METALLI-STRESA, Commendatore Alessandro

Location:
Present Whereabouts Unknown.

Bibliography:
Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Switzerland, March 18, 1887.
Intelligenz Blatt, Bern, Switzerland, March 20, 1887.
Urner Volksblatt, Altdorf, Switzerland, March 26, 1887.
Amerikanische Schweizerzeitung, April 23, 1887.

Category:

Possibly painted in Rome in 1883 at the same time as Pope Leo XIII and Cardinal Hergenrother. The sitter’s address, written on a scrap of paper (artist’s papers), is given as Via Nazionale 5, Roma. He may have been Head of the Italian Post Office and a friend of the artist’s father.