Armchair
Luigi Frullini
- Maker
- Luigi Frullini
- Date
- 1876
- Medium
- Walnut and cut velvet upholstery
- Dimensions
- 88.9 × 94 × 94.7 cm (35 × 37 × 37 1/4 in.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Florence
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Accession
- 1986.1002
- Credit line
- Through prior gifts of Emily Crane Chadbourne, Edna Olive Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, Sr., and Mrs. Gustavus F. Swift, Jr.; purchased with funds provided by Kenilworth Garden Club and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Southworth; Richard T. Crane, Jr., Endowment; European Decorative Arts Purchase Fund
Luigi Frullini was the son of a woodcarver under whom he learned his craft. The talented Frullini was especially skilled at depicting the beauty of nature. He was equally gifted at rendering children, as we can see in his sensitive portrayal of infants on each arm of this chair. Frullini showed his work at many of the international exhibitions that took place in Europe and the United States in the second half of the 19th century.
