Carlo Chessa

{{short description|Italian painter}}

Carlo Chessa (1855 – August 24, 1912) was an Italian painter, printmaker, and illustrator.{{cite book | first= Gottardo |last= Garollo | year=1907| title= Dizionario biografico universale | editor= Ulrico Hoepli| page= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ/page/n533 522] | publisher= Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan| id= | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ | authorlink= }}Date and place of birth from La quadreria e le sculture: opere dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, Volume 1, by Anna Maria Damigella, Bruno Mantura, Mario Quesada. He is the father of Gigi Chessa.

He was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. He mainly painted Alpine landscapes, and exhibited in Turin at the Promotrice of 1884,1888–1897, and in 1911. He also exhibited with the biennial exhibitions of the Circle of Artists around those years. He was known for his etchings of portraits and vedute.[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-chessa_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Encyclopedia Treccani]

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 24 (1980), entry by Antonio Pandolfelli. His engravings were featured in the following books:

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=uk2zPgAACAAJ Leggende del mare] (1894) by Maria Savi-Lopez, E. Loescher, with 60 illustrations by Carlo Chessa.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=jYBLMwAACAAJ Leggende delle Alpi] (1889) by Maria Savi-Lopez with 60 illustrations by Carlo Chessa (see full version, [https://archive.org/details/alpensagen00savigoog Alpensagen] (1893) in German).
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=78q2QAAACAAJ Chronique du temps qui fut la Jacquerie] by Leon Hennique, Carlo Chessa, ... Cossard, Luc Olivier Merson Librairie de la Collection des Dix, Romagnol, 1903.