Giuseppe De Nittis

Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884) was an Italian painter whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism. De Nittis exhibited twelve paintings in The Exposition Universelle of 1878, and was awarded a gold medal.[1] In that same year he received the Legion d’honneur. In 1884, at the age of 38, De Nittis died suddenly of a stroke at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Works by De Nittis are in many public collections, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His paintings Return from the Races and The Connoisseurs are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.