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{{Infobox painting
| image=Vittore_Grubicy_De_Dragon,_Lavandaie_a_Lierna,_1887.png
| alt=See adjacent text.
| image_size=250px
| title=Laundresses in Lierna 
| italic title=yes
| other_language_1=Italian
| other_title_1=Lavandaie a Lierna Lago di Como
| other_language_2=French
| other_title_2=Blanchisseuse de Lierna Lac de Côme
| artist=[[Vittore Grubicy de Dragon]]
| year=c. 1887
| type=[[Oil painting|Oil]] on [[Populus|poplar]]
| imperial_unit      = in  <!-- Note: this parameter must either use the value given or not be included -->
| height_imperial=25,5
| width_imperial=60,5
| city=[[Torino]]
| museum=Museo Di Arti Decorative Accorsi - Ometto}}
'''''Laundresses in Lierna Lake Como''''' ('''''Lavandaie a Lierna Lago di Como''''') is a 19th-century [[painting]] made with [[oil painting|oil paint]]. [[Vittore Grubicy de Dragon]] painted it in 1887 in a village called [[Lierna]]. Lierna is on the shore of [[Lake Como]] near Bellagio and [[Varenna]].
de Dragon signed ''Laundresses in Lierna Lake Como'' on the lower right side of the painting: "A Lierna 1887 VGDD."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvNOAAAAYAAJ&q=Lavandaie+a+Lierna+Lago+di+Como,+1887|title= Sergio Rebora, ''Vittore Grubicy De Dragon: poeta del divisionismo'' 1851-1920|editor= Silvana|year= 2005|page= 124|isbn= 9788882159023}}</ref> It has a wax seal with a noble coat of arms on the back. Grubicy De Dragon devoted promoted the artist [[scapigliatura|Scapigliati]]. They painted together [[En plein air|outside]]. The landscape of the painting is bright.  The people in the painting are under open skies full of clouds.

== Description ==
The painting is part of the [[Divisionism]] art movement. It shows a small beach in the village of [[Lierna]] on Lake Como, in Via Roma. This is where [[Pliny the Younger]] lived in ancient times. de Dragon painted it outside.  He was standing on a terrace where he could see the beach. The house was called Villa Plinii and people could see [[Bellagio]] from it. In the spring of 1887, Grubicy de Dragon was Antonio and Luisa Violini's guest for the first time in Fiumelatte, a village on the border of Lierna mentioned by Leonardo da Vinci as "fiumelaccio" in the Codex Atlanticus. He would go for walks and he was impressed by Lierna. He dedicated many works to her. Grubicy De Dragon then stayed frequently in Lierna where he painted ''[[Fishing for Agons in Lierna (Grubicy)|Fishing for Agons in Lierna]]'', 1893, Cultural Heritage,<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/stampe/schede/H0080-04068/] Beni Culturali Lombardia, Milano (MI), Civiche Raccolte Grafiche e Fotografiche. Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Achille Bertarelli</ref> ''Sera di maggio a Lierna Lago di Como'', 1887<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/stampe/schede/H0080-04063/?view=autori&offset=35&hid=34273&sort=sort_int Sera di Maggio a Lierna Lago di Como, ca. 1890]</ref> ''Paesaggio a Lierna Lago di Como'', 1890.<ref>[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/stampe/schede/H0080-04086/?view=autori&offset=14&hid=34273&sort=sort_int Paesaggio a Lierna - Lago di Como, ca. 1890]</ref> The painting ''Laundresses in Lierna'' shows a beach on Lake Como with two beautiful washerwomen on the shores of the lake, and ''can represent a subject that is almost unsustainable by the sensitivity of the artist''.

== Bibliography ==
* Sergio Rebora, ''Vittore Grubicy De Dragon: poeta del divisionismo'', 1851-1920, Ed. Silvana, 2005

== Related pages ==
* [[Lierna]]
* [[Lake Como]] 
* [[Agon fishing in Lierna Lake Como (Grubicy)]]
* [[Symbolism]]

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* [http://www.museodelpaesaggio.it/it-it/home/collezioni/pittura/vittore_grubicy_de_dragon|Vittore Grubicy De Dragon scheda biografica nel sito del Museo del Paesaggio]{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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