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Landscape with River, Cattle and Figures
Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli1759
Museo Diocesano Milano
Milano, Italy
Details
- Title: Landscape with River, Cattle and Figures
- Creator Lifespan: 1730 - 1800
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Turin
- Creator Birth Place: Turin
- Date: 1759
- Provenance: Archbishop's Painting Gallery, Pozzobonelli Collection
- Physical Dimensions: w62.3 x h44.5 cm
- Painter: Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli
- Description: Originally from Verona, Cignaroli studied under his father, Scipio, from whom he absorbed the Venetian painting culture that would lead him to use Arcadian forms, uniting them with lessons learned from the Bolognese and Venetian landscape painters. There is also no shortage of Flemish influence in his work, which led him to become one of the favorite painters of the Savoy court and of the aristocracy of Piedmont. This painting and Landscape with Bridge and Rider were executed together. Landscape with River, Cattle and Figures was signed by the artist in 1759 and is especially important in the catalog of his work of that period. While still looking at the eighteenth-century tradition of landscape painting, he turned to the more graceful forms of Zuccarelli, Zais and contemporary French painting. In both paintings, the landscape is airy and scenic, with a predominance of cool tones, numerous serpentine trees and various degrees of illumination. The composition and the Arcadian tone, with human elements in harmony with the surrounding nature, are expressed through precise drawing and lively lighting effects, in order to create a pleasant and refined landscape form.
- Type: painting
- Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
- Medium: oil on canvas
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