PROVENANCE: the artist's heirs (their stamped mark bottom right). Celestino Celestini (1882-1961) was a pupil of Giovanni Fattori from 1904 to the master's death in 1908. He was especially interested in the courses taught by Fattori on the technique of original etching, and, along with another student of those courses, Carlo Raffaelli, he promoted, in 1912, the creation of a school of etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, in which he taught until the early fifties.