Portrait of Quintilia Campari Poggeschi

Quintilia Campari Poggeschi (1858-1934) does not directly benefit the Ospedale Maggiore. Her husband Davide, a famous liqueur industrialist and owner of the restaurant known in Milan as "il Camparino" at the corner of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, on the first anniversary of his death offers 100,000 lire for the construction of the new hospital in his memory of Niguarda. The commission of the portrait is entrusted to Leonardo Dudreville, who uses warm shades and a nuanced design, in a simple composition, free to the left of details, concentrated instead on the right: the mirror, the console, the vase of flowers and, daily and poetic , the figure of the white dog, sitting at her feet, raising his head and barking towards his mistress, as if to call her attention.