The Sicilian Vespers is the title of three works by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, all showing the outbreak of the Sicilian Vespers. I Vespri siciliani on frammentiarte.it
Measuring 150 × 200 cm, the first version was commissioned by the Marchioness Visconti d'Aragona. Hayez produced it in the Brera studio in Milan in 1822. The second version measures 91 × 114 cm and was commissioned in 1826–1827 by Count Arese, recently released from prison. Both versions are now in private collections, while the third version (225 × 300 cm), produced in 1846, is now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. That version was produced for Vincenzo Ruffo, Prince of Sant'Antimo, Hayez's main patron. Gli artisti e le opere – I Vespri Siciliani – Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma This painting and a portrait of Ruffo's wife Sarah Louise Strachan Ruffo were two of several paintings produced for Ruffo while Hayez was staying in the Ruffo family home in Naples.
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External links I Vespri siciliani (version I) on frammentiarte.it I Vespri siciliani (version III) – on the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma site I Vespri siciliani (version III) – Storia dell'arte, on francescomorante.it