Landscape

The picture is a typical eighteenth century view where the nature dominates the landscape; see the tree on the foreground compared to the minuscule human figures while on the background it is easily recognized a typical piedmontese village. Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli uses a very common technique among French artists of the eighteenth century: the gouache which needs more doughy colours than the watercolour thus enabling velocity in the execution and also a better result in realizing bucolic and landscaping subject. The use of lead white for snow-capped mountains which surround the view and for the bright points that separe dark areas makes the work extremely sophisticated and approaches the artist sensibility to the successive romantic landscapes.