Demetrio Cosola

Born in San Sebastiano da Po, he lived his entire life between Chivasso, where he moved with his family at the age of seven, and Turin.

[1][2][3] He studied under Enrico Gamba, Andrea Gastaldi, Giovanni Tamone, and became friends with another teacher, Antonio Fontanesi.

[1] Cosola was quite a prolific painter: despite his short life, there are about 200 landscapes, about 200 portraits and about a hundred paintings of other genres.

[2] His favorite subjects were nature and the everyday life of ordinary people,[2][4] frequently including children.

[5] Among his major works, Al sole (In the Sun, 1884) was housed in the Royal Palace of Turin, but was destroyed by a fire in 1997; Il dettato (The Dictation Lesson, 1891) is housed in the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art;[1][5] Dolori inattesi (Unexpected Sorrows, 1895) is in Chivasso, in a private collection;[1] La vaccinazione nelle campagne (The Vaccination in the Countryside, 1894) is also housed in Chivasso, in the Town Hall.