Help with Uniform ID on Oil Painting

[steverr1]

I have a Huge oil Painting 8' x 4' or so of a soldier, which I bought years ago at a auction. Problem is that no one seemed to know anything about the Country or time date of the uniform. Best guess is WW1 Italian, but not sure.

As a new poster on this forum I am blocked from putting the URL of "Tiny Pics" where I have the pictures stored. If you can help with an ID please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[David]

Steve you can upload it as an attachment to the post.

[BLUEHAWK]

If I could see it properly, might be able to ID.

Look here (about 429,000 images w/ID):

http://www.google.com/images?q=WWI+m...ed=0CCEQsAQwAw

[David]

Blue here are the pictures. I have asked Daniel about it too.

[BLUEHAWK]

Thanks David... I'm going to look into this this morning.

[1CAVCCO15MED]

Italian uniform

[BLUEHAWK]

Okay, here is a period Italian Cavalry Corporal's tunic - pretty close to your example:

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[BLUEHAWK]

I can't be sure of the RH ribbon colors in the painting, but based on the number of verticle stripes, assuming this is Italian, then one ribbon may be Italian East Africa campaign:

They had few ribbons (as was the period norm), but of the ones they had only 2 had 5 stripes, and both were for East Africa. The other variant is blue with black stripes.

Hope this might help...

[David]

Tenente Colonnello Italian field grade infantry officer's uniform tunic

Not sure of the year as the description says the ribbons run from early 20th century to WWII

[David]

Italian WW1 cap for E.M and Officers