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This untitled canvas by Pellizza da Volpedo, dated to 1895 and held by the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, was produced in the same year as Fiumana — his direct predecessor to The Fourth Estate. Turin's civic art collection is one of Italy's most significant repositories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian painting, with particularly strong holdings in the Piedmontese realist and Divisionist traditions that Volpedo exemplified. The year 1895 was pivotal in his development: he was simultaneously working on his major political compositions and refining the Divisionist technique through landscapes and figure studies. A canvas from this year in the Turin civic collection likely relates to that process of experimentation and refinement. The undocumented title suggests the work may be a study, a landscape, or an early version of a composition later developed more fully.

Consistent with Volpedo's 1895 practice, the technique would show Divisionism in an active phase of development — more systematic than Fiumana's handling but perhaps not yet at the definitive resolution of The Fourth Estate. The Turin civic collection's professional conservation standards mean the work is likely well preserved and documented in institutional records beyond what appears in public databases.