Silvio Poma - an oil painting depicting a mountain landscape, a mountain pasture and grazing cows

Silvio Poma Mountain Landscape View of Monte Rosa Early 1900s. Large oil painting, the first canvas depicting a mountain landscape with partially snow-covered peaks, a mountain pasture, and grazing cows. Signed S. Poma in the lower left corner, the work dates back to the early 20th century and is on its original canvas, never restored; which is a merit, as it presents the painting in its original entirety. It has a small flaw in that the canvas is a bit loose, visible in the folds at the top also seen in the published images and some "grooving" of the paint ending in the central part of the painting (to the left of the cows). Moreover, after cleaning, the original colors of the pigments would pop, and the painting would gain different brightness and depth (to give an idea, however banal, the snow on the mountain peaks would return to white, and thus the entire chromatic scale of the painting). The frame is original, made of carved and gilded wood, from which we only removed the velvet covering the passe-partout, which was irreversibly worn and replaced with ivory-colored lacquer.

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

This relaxing mountain view, Monte Rosa and the wide valley below the slopes of the eastern wall of the massif, taken from the Piedmont side, probably from Macugnaga, comes from a private Milanese collection 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 cuts on the outer edges, masked and protected by the frame, can only be repaired by lining the canvas. 

The Verbano landscape is repeated with some frequency in Poma's production. The work again proposes the veristic language that distinguishes his painting, which revealed itself from the artist's beginnings, dating back to the early seventies, to almost unchanged until the end of the century. The view in question uses a traditional compositional structure, providing an indefinite foreground, with a slightly blurred urban agglomeration, enlivened by some spots of grazing cows, contrasted with the panoramic imagery of the majestic background landscape. 

He participated as a volunteer in the Second War of Independence and later took up military life, but in 1866, after contracting malaria, he left the army. Upon returning to Milan, he attended the studios of Giovan Battista Lelli and Gerolamo Induno, both soldier-painters, with whom he had contact during the military campaign in 1859. Several historical paintings were removed, his production mostly consisting of landscapes and seascapes, including Monte Rosa and the Pre-Alps from Lake Maggiore, exhibited in Milan at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1906. 

He debuted at the Brera Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1869, but the first official awards came only in the middle of the next decade: in 1876, he won the Mylius Prize of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts for a canvas with a historical theme set in a broad natural context with a romantic flavor; in 1877, one of his landscapes was purchased at the National Exhibition in Naples by Vittorio Emanuele II. He was a very modest and good man. In Bergamo, at the Galleria della Permanente, a commemorative exhibition was held for him in 1946, consisting of twenty-four works, some of which are very significant.

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