Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

[eighty+]

Thanks Ken How your Dad keeping well I hope send him my Regards ok CIAO IVAYA CON DIOS POZDRAWSKI

[Caesar]

Boldini was actually a companion of both Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, although now they rather prefer to call that painting portrait of a dandy.
Boldini was a close friend of John Singer Sargent.
Another Italian very popular painter in Paris was Federico Zandomeneghi, a good friend of both Renoir and Degas and lived in Montmartre aside to Toulouse-Lautrec. Differently from Boldini and De Nittis, in their age superstar among the Parisian nobles and celebrities, elegant and mundane, but that of everyday life in Paris and of the bohemenien district he lived in.
Here's a gellery of him:
https://www.google.it/search?q=feder...YQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1

By staying in Paris Federico Zandomeneghi added impressionism to his style, instead of becoming a Macchiaiolo, a parallel evolution, as some of Tuscanian painters, but he started as a professional, academic painter if You look at paintings like the following ones:

[eighty+]

Hail O Caesar O Mighty One Thanks for Federico Have looked ! Apart from The three you chozen and his Apples

His good but not up to Giovanni standard but then he might have churned them out to Flog at the local

Market if he was short of a few Bob to get his Absinth CIAO STATTE BBUONO..Si.....Si

POZDRAWSKI

[kenmo]

Thanks Ken How your Dad keeping well I hope send him my Regards ok CIAO IVAYA CON DIOS POZDRAWSKI

Dad had knee replacement surgery in early January and is doing quite well.... Many thanks for asking....;-)

[eighty+]

Hi Ken. Thanks. For the quick reply. Is your dad younger then me . Ok. Tell him I have the same

problem knees and ankle's. Some times when sitting painting for some hours. I have to be careful

When getting up. Have to make. Sure. I've got a good hand hold.So I don't fall over . Our

Friend the painting doc in south America Told me to get up every half hour and walk for at least

5 minutes but when your painting. The world could stop and you wouldn't notice

Is it a metal replacement?? Ok. CIAO. Ken. IVAYA CON. DIOS

[eighty+]

Hi Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel By Giovanni Boldini ok FINN IVAYA CON DIOS POZDRAWSKI

[vandra]

Amazing work as always eighty+

[eighty+]

Hi Vandra. Thanks iVAYA CON DIOS. hOO ROO

[Caesar]

Very well done. well, since You don't like too much Zandomeneghi I may offer You Giovanni Fattori, more or less the same period, even a little before (across the mid XIX century and later on to the end of that century). Have a look: (yes, there used to be cowboys called butteri in southern Tuscany (Maremma) even before the US old wild West)

[Caesar]

I used him for my first real watercolor portrait of my sister-in law, by starting from the portrait he made to his cousin (see herebelow reference and my portrait where a changed the face features obviously).