A Hundred and Ten Years in Ischia

This canvas was painted after the painter’s return from Paris in 1880. A soft shade brushes the terrace where an elderly lady is resting in a cool morning and beyond the low wall eyes can embrace the landscape washed by the sun, with the latter making the blue of the sea brighter. Leto drew on social subjects related to life in Paris and then he felt the need to try himself again with the themes of landscape painting which had made him famous during his stay in Ischia, an island off the Gulf of Naples.