The work of the italian joseph león righini, considered the greatest landscape artist in the amazon in the 19th century, pays homage to belém in the month of his birthday and demonstrates the richness of the institution's collection. His oil on canvas "belém do pará", from 1868, measuring 105 x 210 cm, is the painting on display in a brazilian museum that has the oldest record of the city. Author of paintings, drawings and watercolors, he arrived in brazil as a set designer. During the almost three decades that he lived here, most of which was in belém, he was also a drawing teacher, engraver and photographer, and dedicated much of his long stay in the region to recording urban scenes and, in a pioneering way, the nature around him. The work has a curious history: it belonged to emperor d. Pedro ii, who presented it to his niece francisca de orléans, upon her marriage to the duke of chartres, in france. Decades later, the painting would be purchased in paris and brought to belém, in 1965, to join the ufpa collection. Joseph león righini died in belém, in 1884, in santa casa, in a situation of poverty. His assets were auctioned at public auction in pará. Publicizing his work also serves the purpose of rescuing the artist's memory. Date: 1868.
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