LEV LAGORIO (1827-1905) Mountain Pastures. 1864

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘L Lagorio1864’ (lower right) oil on canvas 28 x 38 cm Painted in 1864 during the artists second trip to Caucasus, the present painting explores the mountain nature. Lev Felixovich was born in Feodosia into the family of a Neapolitan vice-consul. His father, Felice Lagorio (1781-1857), was a Genoese merchant who served as vice-consul of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Le received his first artistic education in the workshops of Ivan Aivazovsky. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Among his teachers there were Alexander Sauerweid, Maxim Vorobiev and Bogdan Willewalde.