Augusto Moriani - "De Vagebond" (Tete de Brigand)

Funnily enough, Moriani has also used this model for a later oil painting. His specialty remained the aqua- riot technique of which this is a fine example. That the watercolor In addition, it is also in a remarkable condition can be called special. Feel free to get to know his works which are widely available on the internet.
Augusto Moriani (Naples 1854 – Sorrento 1913)
Antonio Augusto Moriani was a Neapolitan artist who specialized in watercolor genre portraits of “tipi napolitani”, or workaday people, around the Bay of Naples. he wasn't the first in Italy to produce a body of such portraits, but he was almost certainly among the first to do so in Naples, along with Edoardo Forlenza and Bernardo Hay. a few watercolor landscapes of scenes around the Bay of Naples are known, and upwards of twenty oils are also known.
Much of his life he lived in Sorrento, and indeed a good number of his watercolors are sited to Sorrento below the signature. Moriani was in Paris in 1887, and he also spent an extended period in Taormina, most likely in the 1890's.
His works are auctioned up to about 2500 USD.