Portret van Pietro Verri

About this artwork

collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

**Portrait of Pietro Verri *Giuseppe Benaglia, 6–1830,, 324 × 234 mm* This elegant engraving captures the likeness of Pietro Verri (1728–1797), a pivotal Italian Enlightenment thinker, economist, and reformer. Verri founded the Milanese Academy of Fistole and championed economic liberalism and legal reforms through works like *Meditazioni sulla economia politica*. Created well after his death, the portrait reflects the era's reverence for intellectual luminaries, preserving his image for posterity amid Italy's Napoleonic upheavals and push toward unification. Giuseppe Benaglia, an Italian ...