Oil on Canvas by Antonio Peruzzini Italy XVIII Century - Landscape with Figures at the River

Features

Artist:  Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (1650-1724) Attributable to 

Artwork title:  Paesaggio con figure al fiume

Age:  17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Subject:  Landscape with Figures

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Paesaggio con figure al fiume

Oil on canvas. The wide landscape is centered on the river that flows into the valley rich in vegetation. Along its course, in the foreground, some women are washing clothes. The pictorial features, fast and not very aggregated, refer to the production of Antonio Francesco Peruzzini, belonging to a family of painters originally from Pesaro, including his father Domenico and his sons Giovanni, Antonio Francesco and Paolo, active in the Marche region and in Italian cities such as Rome. Bologna, Turin and Milan, during the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth. Antonio Francesco's production is often associated with that of his brother Giovanni, having the two worked together. Antonio Francesco specialized in landscape painting, under the influence of Salvator Rosa and landscape architects such as Pietro Montanini and Pandolfo Reschi, and further influences also came from Nordic painters active in Italy, especially from Pieter Mulier known as il Tempesta. In his first works the originality of his painting is already distinguished given a rapid drafting and an intense and brilliant chromatic stamp. From the beginning of the nineties the long artistic bond between Antonio Francesco Peruzzini and Alessandro Magnasco began, following their meeting in Milan, where Peruzzini had settled; from this period onwards his painting seems to fall apart, through forms that become more dynamic and light, almost fantastic, to finally arrive at a style marked by an ever greater disintegration of the forms of nature and their movement. Restored and relined, the work is presented in an early 20th century frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of age.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 88
Width: 114
Depth: 6

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 74
Width: 100