Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni (1841) by Francesco Hayez
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni is an 1841 oil-on-canvas portrait of
Alessandro Manzoni by the Italian painter
Francesco Hayez, now in the
Pinacoteca di Brera.[1][2] It was commissioned in 1840 by Manzoni's second wife countess Teresa Borri Stampa and his son Stefano. After fifteen sittings the painter completed the work on 26 June 1841.[3] Eight years later Teresa commissioned
a portrait of herself by the same artist.
References
^(in Italian) Giorgio Cricco, Francesco Di Teodoro, Il Cricco Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell’arte, Dal Barocco al Postimpressionismo, Versione gialla, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2012, p. 1515.