Picture with a view of the mountains, Monte Rosa and a wide valley - Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, 1840 – Turate, 1932) was an Italian painter considered one of the most outstanding landscape painters of Lombard Verism at the end of the 19th century. 

This relaxing view of the mountains, Monte Rosa, and the wide valley below the eastern slopes of the massif, taken from the Piedmont side, probably from Macugnaga, comes from a private collection in Milan and is in good condition. 

The canvas has been cleaned and a small tear repaired. The painting is now presented as a photographic image; slight loosening and minimal nicks on the outer edges, masked and protected by the frame, can only be repaired by relining the canvas. 

The Verbano landscape recurs quite frequently in Poma’s work. The piece again features a veristic style that distinguishes his painting, which has been evident since the artist’s early days, dating back to the early seventies, and remained almost unchanged until the end of the century. This view uses a traditional compositional structure, providing an undefined foreground with a slightly blurred urban agglomeration, enlivened by some patches of grazing cows, contrasted with the panoramic depiction of the majestic background landscape. 

He volunteered in the Second War of Independence and later pursued a military career, but in 1866, after contracting malaria, he left the army. After returning to Milan, he attended the studios of Giovan Battista Lelli and Gerolamo Induno, both soldier-painters he had contact with during the military campaign of 1859. Several historical paintings were removed from his oeuvre; most of his production consists of landscapes and seascapes, including Monte Rosa and the Prealps from Lake Maggiore, exhibited in Milan at the National Art Exhibition in 1906. 

He debuted at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Brera in 1869, but his first official awards came only in the mid-1870s: in 1876, he won the Mylius Award from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts for a historical-themed canvas set in a broad naturalistic and romantic context; in 1877, one of his landscapes was purchased at the National Exhibition in Naples by Vittorio Emanuele II. He was a very modest and kind person. In Bergamo, at the Galleria della Permanente, a commemorative exhibition was held in 1946, featuring twenty-four works, some of which are very significant.

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