Lucia Vecchi, daughter of the writer Jack La Bolina

Painted in 1888 and held at the Galleria d'arte moderna in Florence, this portrait depicts Lucia Vecchi, daughter of the naval officer and writer Augusto Vittorio Vecchi who published under the pseudonym Jack La Bolina. The identification of the sitter through her father's pen name rather than her surname reflects the cultural currency of literary reputation in late nineteenth-century Italian middle-class society. Corcos would have been a natural choice for this kind of family portrait commission: his Livorno origins connected him to the coastal and naval world from which figures like Vecchi emerged, and his Florence studio made him accessible to the Tuscan cultural elite. The painting dates to the peak of Corcos's commercial success, when his images of young women and girls commanded consistent attention from collectors and critics.

Corcos applies his standard approach to a young female sitter: careful tonal modelling of the face with warm highlights and cooler shadows, precise rendering of dress and hair, and a background that supports rather than competes with the figure. The comparative informality appropriate to a young girl — versus an adult society portrait — likely produces a somewhat lighter, less formally composed image.