The last decade of the century was distinguished by great productivity.  Fattori produced many etchings and had participated regularly in the Venice Biennial since its beginning in 1895.  He also received a number of official recognitions:  a gold medal at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair for his etching Oxen and Cart (Maremma); he was asked to serve on Rome’s National Copperplate Engraving Art Commission in 1901; and his body of engravings was published in a special edition in 1903. 

In May of that year his second wife Marianna also died.  In 1904 he was awarded a silver medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair.   In 1907, at the age of 82, he was married for the third time to 62-year-old Fanny Martinelli who would leave him a widower only one year later.  On 30 August, 1908 Giovanni Fattori died in a classroom at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.