Painting Ancient Copy G. Favretto '800 Genre Scene Oil on Canvas - The rat

Features

Artist:  Giacomo Favretto Copy from 

Artwork title:  Il sorcio

Age:  19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Subject:  Genre Scenes

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Il sorcio

Oil on canvas. This is a copy of the famous painting by Giacomo Favretto, which was presented at the Brera Exhibition in 1878 and is now in the Pinacoteca of the same Milanese Academy. The Venetian Giacomo Favretto established himself as the best narrator of popular everyday life in the lagoon, and Il sorcio is probably his best known work and a typical example of his art. He loved to depict scenes of everyday life in a working-class neighbourhood of Venice, a working-class neighbourhood that Giacomo Favretto knew very well since he too came from a lower-class family. In this painting, a child is chasing a mouse while three girls, probably his sisters, have literally climbed onto chairs and are following, at a safe distance, the hunt, giving directions to their younger brother: a subtle taste for irony is mixed with the painter's vivid descriptive and narrative skills, describing the scene with great realism and a typically lagoon-like luminosity that drew on the great Venetian tradition. The copy presented here faithfully reproduces, even in size, the amusing scene, albeit without Favretto's pictorial and luministic quality. The work is presented in a stylish frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, shows small signs of wear. We try to present the actual condition as fully as possible with photos. If certain details are not clear from the photos, the description applies.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 80
Width: 110
Depth: 5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 60
Width: 90