This is Luigia Pascoli

Luigia Pascoli (23 October 1805 in Monfalcone, Province of Gorizia – 3 April 1882 in Bologna) was an Italian painter. She depicted genre scenes, often in pastel. The often made miniature copies of grand masters.

She studied under her father, and next her sister Marianna Pascoli (1790–1846), but after that in Milan studied below the engraver Antonio Nardello. She completed some illuminated manuscript work, in supplement to portraits and genre works. She and her sister were near friends of Antonio Canova.

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She was a resident of Venice. In 1870 at the Parma Exposition, she displayed a pastel Magdalen; in 1877 at Naples, she exhibited: First Love; a pastel La maschera; in 1881 at Venice: a copy of the San Marco by Titian; a copy of the Dinner at Emmaus by Giambellino; Una Puttina col gatto; Una Romana, and Una venditrice di uova nel costume veneto.

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