


Based on a photograph taken by celebrated photographer Charles Disderi in 1859, this painting is considered one of the portraits of the Manzoni family and friends because D’Azeglio was Manzoni’s son-in-law, having wed his daughter Giulia. D’Azeglio invented a genre known as “historiated landscape” painting with landscapes studied from life used as settings for episodes from history. He was a novelist but also a politician of standing in the crucial years of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the embryonic Italian state.

AUTHOR Francesco Hayez
DATE 1864
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS cm 119 x 93
INVENTORY 6337
ROOM XXXVIII
Work on display