Background
Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi were neoclassic sculptors.
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Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
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Brera Academy.
Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi were neoclassic sculptors.
The latter completed the monument to Titian found in the Frari of Venice.
As a young man, he preferred painting to sculpture, enrolling in 1856 first in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan. In 1860, he tried to join with the forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) in his Expedition of the Thousand. This made it uncomfortable for him to reside in Venice, and in 1862, he moved to Florence for 5 years where he frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo.
There he met a number of the artists known as the Macchiaioli, including Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Fattori and Giuseppe Abbati, and he joined them in painting landscapes outdoors.
Painting outside of the studio, "en plein air", was at that time an innovative approach, allowing for a new vividness and spontaneity in the rendering of light. In 1871 Pompeo Molmenti wrote glowing assessements of three young Venetian painters: Guglielmo Ciardi, Alessandro Zezzos, and Zandomeneghi.
In 1874, he went to Paris, where he was to spend the rest of his life. He quickly made the acquaintance of the Impressionists, who had just had their first group exhibition.
Zandomeneghi, whose style of painting was similar to theirs, would participate in four of their later exhibitions, in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1886.
He also admired the work of Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and his many paintings of women in their domestic routines follow their example. To supplement the meager returns from the sale of his paintings, Zandomeneghi found work drawing illustrations for fashion magazines. He took up working in pastels in the early 1890s, and became especially adept in this medium.
At about this same time his reputation and his fortunes were enhanced when the art dealer Durand-Ruel showed Zandomeneghi"s work in the United States.
From then on he enjoyed continuing modest success until his death in Paris in 1917.
Crochet lesson
In Bed
Mother and Daughter
The Reading
Young Girl Reading
Portrait of M. Diego Martelli
Figure of man sitting
Reverie
The Flower Seller
Chest of a Young Girl
Woman on an armchair
Woman with bouquet
The Singing Lesson
At the Theater
Portrait of the Doctor
Dressing Before The Mirror
The cafe
Little girl
After Bath
Girl picking flowers
The good book
The Reader
Languor
The Moulin de la Galette
Place d'Anvers, Paris
Portrait of a Young Beauty
Woman leaning on a chair
The Conversation
The Red Roof
Lady in a Meadow
Girl with flowers
The white collar
Lady with a hat
The tea
Study of figures
The washtub
Lady in Red
Woman in corset
Young Girl Reading
Naked woman in the mirror
Woman Drying Herself
Promenade