Portrait of Massimo d'Azeglio (Italian: Ritratto di Massimo d’Azeglio) is an 1864 portrait painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez.Mazzocca p.343 It depicts Massimo d'Azeglio, a figure associated with the movement for Italian Unification who served as Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia.Bertone p.96-97 He was a noted Romantic who produced novels and paintings that reflected his support of the liberation of Northern Italy from the Austrian Empire. He was the son-in-law of Alessandro Manzoni and a political rival of Count Cavour.
Hayez based the painting on an 1859 photograph of d’Azeglio by Charles Disdéri. Around the same time he also produced a portrait of Cavour. Yoday the painting is in the collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezioni/collezione-on-line/portrait-of-massimo-dazeglio/
References
Bibliography Bertone, Virginia. Massimo d'Azeglio e l'invenzione del paesaggio istoriato. Edizioni GAM, 2002. Mazzocca, Fernando . Francesco Hayez: catalogo ragionato. F. Motta, 1994. Watts, Laura L. Italian Painting in the Age of Unification. Taylor & Francis, 2021.