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Description
The canvas was painted by Lega in the hills around Florence. It depicts a wealthy family being served by their valet. "It is one of the artist’s masterpieces, in which he turns an affectionate gaze on a bourgeois and feminine world [...] The myriad hues capturing the sunlight and the cool of the trellis impart a thoroughly natural feel to the stringent, almost Renaissance handling of perspective."

The holding institution - Pinacoteca di Brera
is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

The history of the Pinacoteca
The Brera Gallery was officially established in 1809, even though a first heterogeneous collection with educational purpose existed already from 1776 – and then increased in the following years – alongside the Accademia di Belle Arti, requested by Mary Therese of Austria to offer the students the opportunity to study lofty masterpieces of art close up.