Draft:César (Cesidio) Pignatelli
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César (Cesidio) Pignatelli (1846-1929) was born in Gallinaro, Italy, in 1846 and died in Paris in June, 1929[1]. He was a model for Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse among many other artists.
He posed for Auguste Rodin’s sculptures St John the Baptist Preaching, The Walking Man[2] and Ugolino and His Dead Children; and as the model for Henri Matisse’s sculpture Le Serf[2] and the painting Bevilacqua as a Monk. He also posed for Albert Maignan's Death of Carpeaux.[1]
Pignatelli was baptized Cesidio but was known as César by the time of his first journey on foot to Paris in 1877. He is often confused with two younger models working in Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: his son Luigi (Louis) Pignatelli, born in Gallinaro in 1869, and Domenico Bevilacqua, born in Gallinaro in 1878.[1]