As a young man, he was employed in documenting through drawings the collections – including beetles, flowers, and fossils – of the
Museum of Natural History of Turin. He later studied at the
Accademia Albertina under
Gamba,
Gastaldi and
Gilli At Milan, in 1883, he exhibited:
Al convento; in 1884 at Turin, he exhibited another copy of the same painting:
Una partita a tarocchi:
In val Salici;
Una bella giornata;
Da Celle. practiced the then novel technique of
chromolithography, including works such as
La Famiglia di Carlo I; ; and
Lancerotto. He painted a
Portrait of the Queen Margherita for the Princess Laetitia. Other genre works included
Idillio;
Vicinanze di Condove;
Triste giornata;
Fervet opus; and
In cerca del Papa. He taught himself many languages, and taught German at the Circolo Filologico. ==References==