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Held at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genoa, this 1867 canvas by Cabianca reflects his connection to the Ligurian cultural sphere alongside his better-documented Florentine Macchiaioli associations. The Accademia Ligustica was one of the oldest art institutions in northern Italy, and its collection of nineteenth-century painting represents the regional reception of movements that originated in Florence or Rome. Cabianca's presence in this collection in 1867 suggests his work was circulating through Italian exhibition networks broadly enough to reach Genoese institutional attention. The subject — whatever it depicts — would be consistent with his mature figure or landscape subjects from this period, painted with the assured tonal method he had developed through the preceding decade of Macchiaioli engagement.

A canvas work in a regional academy collection suggests deliberate exhibition presentation — more resolved and formally ambitious than his cardboard sketches. Cabianca's 1867 technique is fully mature, with tonal organization handling light convincingly across figure and environment without academic modeling conventions.