Cesare Auguste Detti built his reputation on costume drama painted straight, crowded rooms and silk sleeves and people caught mid-conversation, and that storytelling quality is what carries his work into counted cross stitch.
An Italian painter born in 1848 and died in 1914, Detti is also recorded as Cesare Agostino Detti, and he spent his career on historical genre scenes rather than portraits or landscapes. Most of what he painted looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, the dress and manners of those years reconstructed with obvious pleasure, in the Troubadour style that had already taught a generation of painters to treat the past as a stage. Louis XV in his throne room, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a presentation at court: these are the subjects he kept returning to.
Other nineteenth-century painters: Marie Spartali Stillman and Edwin Longsden Long.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Cesare Auguste Detti art prints are easy to find.
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