Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Dateabout 1880
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
InscriptionInscribed lower right: ” E. Meneghelli”
Credit LineAthenæum purchase, Susan Morse Hilles Fund for Art Acquisition, 2016
Object NumberUR372
Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Date1876
MediumOil on artists’ board
DimensionsOther: 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in.)
InscriptionVose Galleries, Boston, label on reverse, inventory no. 33823. Paper label on reverse: “E. Meneghelli 1876 / LBW from LBH 1948 / from Great-Grandpa [Sutter (crossed out)] Hatch
Credit LineAthenæum purchase, Stanton Loring Fund for Art Acquisition, 2014
Object NumberUR356
Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Dateabout 1878
MediumOil on artist’s board
Dimensions9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
InscriptionOn the back of the artist’s board, partially cut off: [A stamp on the edge of the board] N TINGD BY NEY & Co. _9 OXFORD ST. [LOND?]ON
Credit LineGift of Jack Grinold, 2014
Object NumberUR352
Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Date1876
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm)
DescriptionThis is the sixth painting by Meneghelli with an identifiable Boston setting to enter the Athenæum’s collection. The view is in Boston’s Back Bay, looking south on Berkeley Street from the corner of Commonwealth Avenue. The Church of the Covenant (1865–1867) and the former Museum of Natural History (1862; now Restoration Hardware) are visible at right.
Athenæum purchase, 2011
Object NumberUR334
Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions13 x 25 1/4 in. (33 x 64.1 cm)
DescriptionThe location of this scene is not known. In fact, it may be a composed landscape, that is, one constructed of elements—trees, hills, figures—that the artist had observed, sketched, or remembered from different places that he had visited. Once he came to America in about 1876, Meneghelli appears to have become best known as a painter of interiors and cityscapes; the discovery and recent acquisition by the Athenæum of this landscape has broadened our sense of his oeuvre.
Athenæum purchase, 2010
Object NumberUR329
Enrico Meneghelli (Italian 1853–after 1910)
Date1879
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions14 x 9 3/4 in. (35.6 x 24.8 cm)
DescriptionEnrico Meneghelli came to America from his native Italy in about 1876. He lived and worked, first in Boston and then, from around 1881, in New York. He exhibited his work in both cities and had a modest success as a painter of interiors, scenes of everyday life, and cityscapes. In 1879, when this painting was executed, Meneghelli was living in a Boston boarding house where his fellow residents included other artists. This painting could certainly represent one of their studios or perhaps Meneghelli’s own. When Studio Interior was acquired by the Athenæum, it brought this assigned title with it. But the painting’s subject and date of execution suggest that it could be identical to an otherwise unidentified painting by Meneghelli titled Finishing the Artist’s Work, which was exhibited at the Boston Art Club in 1880. If that attribution is correct, Meneghelli may here be punning on his own participation in “finishing” the painting-within-the-painting by painting his own canvas—this painting—himself.
Inscribed lower left: “E. Meneghelli 1879”
Credit LineAthenæum purchase in honor of Rodney Armstrong, 2008
Object NumberUR320
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