Viale Principe Amedeo in Florence

This second canvas depicting Viale Principe Amedeo in Florence, also from 1881, appears to be a variant or second view of the subject Fattori painted that year — exploring the same Florentine boulevard from a different vantage or at a different time of day. The practice of painting the same subject more than once to explore its different conditions — different light, weather, or compositional approach — was consistent with the Macchiaioli plein-air method. The boulevard was one of the new arteries created during Florence's modernisation as the Italian capital, and Fattori's repeated engagement with it in 1881 suggests it presented formal problems he found worth sustained investigation.

Like its companion canvas, this version explores the interplay of tree shadow, urban light, and moving figures within the boulevard's spatial structure. Compositional differences from the other version show Fattori varying his approach to the same subject — different angle, different light, or different degree of finish. The Macchiaioli tonal vocabulary is applied consistently across both versions.