Eugenio Scorzelli

(Buenos Aires, 1890 - Napoli, 1958)

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He studied painting at the Academy of Naples under the guidance of Vincenzo Volpe and Michele Cammarano and frequented the cultural environment of the Gambrinus café, which at the time was a meeting place for local intellectuals. Although his professional career often led him to leave the Campania capital for Milan, London and Paris, he remained anchored to the Neapolitan pictorial tradition and the popular scenes, squares and monuments of the city were over time a source of inspiration for his works.

The subject described here by the painter is the famous fountain of the Porphyry Cup - better known as the duck fountain because it is populated by small ducks - it is among the most beautiful decorative elements of the path that Ferdinand IV called the "king's delight" in the current Villa Municipal.