Pittore piemontese del Settecento

18th-century Piedmontese painter Pendant paintings Landscape with wild boar hunting scene / Landscape with pastoral scene Oil on canvas, cm 66 x 132, framed 68 x 134 Full details - LINK - We show you this pleasant pair of paintings, characterized by a clear atmosphere and a delicate chromatic harmony, in perfect harmony with the rocaille taste of the Savoy capital in the second half of the 18th century, and comparable to a painter from the Piedmont area, presumably active in Turin in that period. The first work, with a pastoral and arcadian character, shows a small group of shepherds, intent on watching over their animals: the romantic theater, which sees a shepherd on horseback singing a song to cheer up the companions' rest, makes the scene precious. In the second work, however, the composition is centered on the lively and rich group of figures of hunters who, armed with swords and spears and with the help of hunting dogs, have surrounded the wild boars. The style of our two canvases, as well as the type of subject represented, evokes the compositions of Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin, 1730 - 1800) with the illustrative tradition repeatedly faced by the author, the main landscape painter of the Piedmontese Rococo, as recalled in the canvases made for the Palazzine di Stupinigi and Racconigi. His technical skill and his rigorous craftsmanship earned him the esteem of the Savoy court and consequently of the Piedmontese nobles. His workshop expanded considerably due to the very numerous commissions, leading him to make use of the help of a considerable number of workers, apprentices and professional painters who, depending on their specialization, deal with the landscape, figures or costumes, so it becomes difficult to establish whether a work is a workshop job or an autonomous painter. Paintings of this format and of these subjects, often made in groups, were commissioned to be placed in Piedmontese and Lombard palaces or small castles. Shape and dimensions would suggest that the canvases were originally placed as overdoors, or created to embellish part of a boiserie. For further information, please contact us. Painting accompanied by a photographic certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law (FIMA)