Stormy Navy Oil on Canvas Italy XIX Century

Features

Artwork title:  Marina in tempesta

Age:  19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Subject:  Marine Landscape

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Marina in tempesta

Oil on canvas. Of this suggestive and fascinating scene of a stormy sea, with ships at the mercy of the waves, there are different versions, inspired by the most important and well-known canvas, the one created by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), of the same size and preserved at the Castello Sforzesco from Milan. This proposal is very close to a similar work from the Gnecchi collection in Milan, certainly inspired by the Guardesca production: it differs in small details (the color of the flag on the ship on the right, the inclinations of the masts of the ships on the left and in the center, the shape of the clouds), which suggest a good copy, made in the nineteenth century, in the wake of the interest and suggestion for the naturalistic theme and, in particular, for the power of Nature, which developed above all in Italy during the period of Romanticism. On the back of the frame there is a paper label with an inventory number and the initials C.G. (Gnecchi Collection?). On the first canvas, the painting has a very small tear on the right. It is presented in a late 19th century frame.

Product Condition:
Product in fair condition showing some signs of age.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 46
Width: 58,5
Depth: 4

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 34
Width: 46