Capri motive with a woman on the terrace with backside view of Faroglioni Rocks was executed by good listed Italian landscape painter Michele Federico (Capri, November 13, 1884 – Capri, 1966).
Michele Federico was a landscape painter, nicknamed "the painter of the sea" for his seascapes, many of the island of Capri, where he was born and worked. He was a pupil, already at the age of twelve, of the painter Antonino Leto (1844-1913) - Sicilian and pupil of Francesco Lojacono - who had settled in Capri since 1882.

With Antonino Leto and Augusto Lovatti (1852-1921) he shared a painting made live, full of light, colors and movement. Federico and Lovatti were in the early twentieth century the reference artists for a group of painters, including Valentino White, Carlo Perindani, Matteo Sarno, Felice Giordano, Ezelino Briante, Antonio Odierna and Enrico Gargiulo. In the 1930s he was the organizer of solo and group exhibitions, including in his painting studio in Florence. He was very attached to his island and it is said that when an American merchant took him to the United States where he was already famous, the painter after a short time was overcome by nostalgia and wanted to return home.

Michele Federico's works were exhibited, starting from the Promotrice Salvator Rosa in Naples in 1906, in many Italian cities - Milan, Turin, Genoa, Rome and Florence - and in foreign cities - Paris, San Francisco and Buenos Aires

Literature: on-line Wikipedia.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas.  Original period  frame.

Measurements: unframed w 21 7/8 " x h 17 3/4 " (55,5 x 46 cm), framed w 30 7/8 " x h 27 1/3 " (78,5 x 68,5 cm )

Condition: in good condition.