Valerio Laccetti

Valerio Laccetti or Valerico Laccetti (1836 - April 8, 1909) was an Italian painter, mainly of pastoral genre themes.

He was born in Vasto, Province of Chieti, and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts at Naples, where he won a prize at an early competition. He studied under Giuseppe Mancinelli and Francesco Palizzi. He completed many landscapes of rural and agricultural scenes with animals.

In 1863, he exhibited at Naples: Interior with animals. Having moved to Rome in 1865, at the Mostre degli Amatori e Cultori, he displayed Dog and Cat in a Stall and Cow in a Stall. In 1870 at the Promotrice of Naples, he displayed views from Paris: Remebrance of Fontainebleau, and Rome: Colosseum at sunrise in Autumn. He exhibited at the Roman Exhibitions till 1902, including The Widow (1875); The Girl (1878); A Mother plays with her Child (1879); The Prayer, La preghiera, Catechism in the Countryside (1881, province of Salerno); The Winter, New and old Soldiers; and Le gioie della famiglia (1885). He exhibited often at the Neapolitan Promotrice (1871, 1873, 1874, 1879).^[1] In 1873 at Vienna, he displayed three canvases depicting peasants at work, winning a medal.^[2] In 1877 at the National exposition of Naples he displayed Solo!, Campagna romana, and La civiltà fuga l'ignoranza (Civilization banishes Ignorance), which was reprised at the next year's Paris International Exposition. After 1880, he also completed some historical and religious canvases, influenced by Domenico Morelli, including Christus imperat!, completed 1884, exhibited in Rome, 1883, 1888, now in Chieti, Pinacoteca Provinciale Barbella in Chieti.^[3] He was a honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Fologini and Ferrara. He died in Rome.^[4]

References

1. Istituto Matteucci, biography.
2. Arte in Italia: rivista mensile di belle arti, page 129.
3. Istituto Matteucci biography.
4. Bollettino della Deputazione abruzzese di storia patria (1908), obituary,, page 92.