Landscape with Female Figure, Shepherd and Flock

Carlo Antonio Tavellathird decade of the XVIII century

Details

Title: Landscape with Female Figure, Shepherd and Flock
Creator Lifespan: 1668 - 1738
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Genoa
Creator Birth Place: Milan
Date: third decade of the XVIII century
Provenance: Archbishop's Painting Gallery, Pozzobonelli Collection
Physical Dimensions: w50 x h44.5 cm
Painter: Carlo Antonio Tavella
Description: Recent studies attribute this work to Tavella, considering strict analogies between this painting and the Arcadian works inspired by Gaspar Dughet. The precise rendering of the natural elements and the variety of tones chosen in the range of colors are stylistic elements frequently found in the works of this Milanese painter. The arrangement of the trees on the left form a border that delimits the scene from the background slopes, which disappear into the hilly horizon and into the sky, painted with delicate chiaroscuro counterpoint. The presence of the animals that animate the background, as well as the rendering of the sheep and the female figure in the foreground, clearly show the hand of Tavella. The work is dated to the artist’s mature years, around the third decade of the eighteenth century.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: oil on canvas

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