"Grapes For The Baby" Is Italian Oil On Canvas Painting By Eugenio Zampighi (1859-1944), Signed E.Zampighi - 25" x 34.2". About Artist: Eugenio Zampighi (Modena, 1859, Maranello, Modena, 1944) was an Italian painter and photographer, mainly of Genre subjects. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Modena under Antonio Simonazzi. At a very young age and from his early history paintings on he was influenced by the verist Modenese painter Giovanni Muzzioli. After winning the Poletti Prize for painting in 1880, with his entry, A Retiarius (net-man) gladiator wounded in a Flavian Amphitheater, he had the opportunity of continuing his studies first in Rome and later in Florence where he settled permanently in 1884. During the 1880s, he began to produce a repertoire of genre scenes, which had an extraordinary success on the art market and brought him international commissions.He was influenced by the style of Gaetano Chierici, and by the Florentine Macchiaioli School. He worked mostly in the latter cities late in life.