Luigi Chialiva
(Born 1842 in Castano,
Ticino, Died 1914 in Paris)
The Swiss-Italian artist Luigi Chialiva is best
known for his charming scenes of peasant life
and domestic animals. According to the Benezit,
Chialiva was a multi-faceted man who trained
as an architect and a chemist, and developed
a special technique for fixing the pigments
in pastels. He was a friend of Edgar Degas,
who he met during a stay in Rome, and also associated
with the artists Jacques Tissot, and Pierre-George
Jeanniot.
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