ZANDOMENEGHI, Federico
(b. 1841, Venezia, d. 1917, Paris)

Le Moulin de la Galette

1878
Oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm
Private collection

Zandomeneghi settled in Paris in 1874, living a reclusive life, and, unsuccessful in his lifetime, was obliged to earn a living doing fashion drawings. He exhibited in the 1879, 1881, and 1886 Impressionist exhibitions. His major works were painted in the late 1870s and in the 1880s. In Le Moulin de la Galette (1878) the poster-like figures and spatially flat, simplified forms prompt comparison with the Post-Impressionist pictures of Toulouse-Lautrec.