Giuseppe de Nittis came to Paris as a young man in 1868 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Gerome. The following year, two of his paintings were accepted for the Salon, Woman with a parrot and Reception intime. He became successful and fashionable in England, which he visited in 1874, as well as in France. In the same year Degas, whom he knew as well as Manet, persuaded him to exhibit one of his paintings at the first Impressionist exhibition, but Renoir felt the picture was too academic in style and only agreed to have it hung after the exhibition had opened.

The Amalfi Handmade paper born in 1200 where paper mills are already in the area. The Amalfi paper is also called Charta Bambagina for its unique production process, which does not use cellulose derived from wood, but starts from collecting rags of linen, cotton and hemp white. The fabrics were previously reduced to a pulp by means of hammers studded mills moved by hydraulic propulsion.