Mario Bettinelli's artistic life is made up of several phases, starting from the period from 1895 to 1901, when he attended the Moretto da Brescia Drawing School in Brescia, specializing in the technique of portrait and caricature.

To then move on to a second phase, which ran from 1900 to 1915, when he moved to Milan he came into contact with the late Scapigliato environment, dedicating himself to the creation of allegorical subjects and female portraits.

In Milan, in those years, the artists concentrated on the development of numerous variations of the timeless archetype of the femme fatale, first and foremost Ambrogio Alciati, Giuseppe Amisani and Giuseppe Palanti.

The woman depicted by Bettinelli is usually captured ...