Artist: Edoardo Gelli (Italian, 1852-1933)
Title: Der Hofzwerg (The Court Jester)
Medium: Antique woodcut on wove paper after the original by H. Scheu.
Signature: Signed in the Plate
Publisher: Druck Der K. K. Hif und staatsdruckerrei in wien.
Dimensions: Image 8 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Eduardo Gelli was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume portraits. He trained in Florence under Antonio Ciseri. The contemporary American art collector James Jackson Jarves grouped him in with Francesco Vinea and Tito Conti, two other costume genre painters. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, he displayed The Lost Chord.