Claude Lorrain detto Claudio Lorenese (1600 - 1682) [Followers] - Paesaggio con figure

\Artist: Claude Lorrain detto Claudio Lorenese (1600 - 1682) [Followers]
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Not signed\Dimensions: 50_10_60_cm
CLAUDE LORRAIN, also called CLAUDIO LORENESE (Chamagne, 1600 - Rome, 1682) [Followers] Landscape with Figures Oil on canvas, cm. 35 x 44 NOTES: Unsigned work. Certificate of Guarantee and Lawful Origin. Unframed work: Gorgeous antique painting, oil on canvas, depicting a Landscape with figures. For the quality and the characteristics of style the work is derived from a model by Claude Lorrain (Chamagne, 1600 - Rome, 1682) - French painter, active mainly in Rome with Nicolas Poussin, and considered the master of the ideal landscape genre - yet autonomous and with a high quality pictorial verve. The canvas, in fact, is a composition of iridescent colors from pink to blue and orange, which reveals at first sight a sensitivity of the first order, capable of combining Renaissance classicism with the new visual suggestions of seventeenth-century painting. It is difficult to define a date of execution, despite the iconographic and inspirational models are the creations of Claude Lorrain, the classicist sensibility and the tonalities of the drafting denote a late eighteenth-century dating. The original pictorial ductus of this Landscape with figures reveals - a probable - authorship of a skilled painter looking at Lorrain. Claude Lorrain, originally Claude Gellée, was born in Chamagne, France, in 1600. Claude Lorain is a painter and engraver who became very famous in Italy thanks to his transfer to Rome at a young age in 1616, where he already participated in the decoration of Villa Lante di Bagnaia , near Viterbo. A pupil of Cavalier d'Arpino and Agostino Tassi, after a brief return to his homeland during which he worked on some frescoes, Claude Lorrain settled permanently in Rome, from which the Italianization of the name in Claudio Lorenese also derives, and here he specialized in the classicist representations of landscapes and views. In its villages, the aerial perspective allows us to glimpse, among dark frames of foliage and architecture similar to wings, sparkling horizons in the golden mist. In the Roman countryside, he studied the luminous phenomena varying with the hours, that is, with the angle of incidence of light, so much so as to make Lorrain a precursor of Impressionism. The light of Lorrain therefore spreads to permeate the whole landscape, placing the foreground and background in a continuous spatial unity, coming from an area of the sky just above the horizon, so that the viewer fixes his gaze directly on it. He loved the delicately silver mornings in an atmosphere that is always transparent, or the splendor of the afternoon, but his favorite time was that of sunset, as in the work in question, when the shadows lengthened allowing him the golden tones he sought. In most of his terrestrial landscapes there is always water, lake or river, because it is the mirror of light. All these elements can be found in this canvas. With an exquisitely Arcadian taste, the painter painted a precise view of the Roman countryside where a group of figures stands out against an arboreal backdrop. The serene perception of nature and the limpid luminosity also suggest a marked neoclassical nature, the same that we can perceive in the works of Giovanni Campovecchio. Born in Mantua in 1754 and trained at the local Academy of Fine Arts, the artist moved to Rome in 1782 after having obtained the coveted Roman pensioner, and in 1788 he was already a renowned landscape painter obtaining prestigious assignments. The painting demonstrates a technical expertise and artistic sensitivity typical of Lorrain, with the sky darkening for the waning evening, while maintaining the brightness. In its pure form, rarer due to the difficulties of execution, it has the appearance of a watercolor drawing. Regarding its state of conservation, the canvas is in fairly good general condition considering the time of the painting, the pictorial surface shows a patina varnish. We can see - in Wood's light - some small restorations scattered over the sky at the top right and the vegetation at the bottom right. There are also some slight unveiling and oxidation of the pictorial surface, however nothing really relevant. The painting has been reupholstered, there are no conservation problems and the canvas does not seem to need interventions. In sunlight, a fine crackle is visible compared to the time. The measures of the canvas are cm. 35 x 44. The painting is sold without frame, although the work is framed in a beautiful handcrafted wooden frame in the Renaissance box style with a gold and black lacquer background, made entirely by hand at the workshop "A Putìa Beddra" - Sicily (Certificate of Guarantee) - (the dimensions of the frame are approx. 54 x 62 x 6 cm) . ORIGIN: Coll. Private PUBLICATION: Unpublished; MYTHS AND THE TERRITORY in Sicily with a thousand cultures. UNPUBLISHED QUADRERIA general catalog of paintings from the collection of the “Myths and the territory” cycle, Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, (in print 2021) . Upon request, the buyer can request a reproduction of the frame (as shown in the photo) in Tuscan Renaissance style in painted gold and black lacquer on wood. It is a reproduction of the mature Renaissance of the late sixteenth century in the shape of a drawer, entirely handcrafted in our laboratory "A Putìa Beddra" - Sicily. This reproduction of a Tuscan Renaissance frame is very well suited to 16th and 17th century paintings. The price on offer is € 200. 00 (commercial cost € 650. 00) . Certificate of Guarantee of the frame is issued by the atelier "A Putìa Beddra" - Sicily, which declares the originality of the frame made entirely by hand (Artisan Made Italy) . We also guarantee accurate packaging with external wooden crate and bubble wrap / cardboard / internal polystyrene (packaging cost approximately € 100. 00) and tracked shipping (€ 100. 00 Italy) . For export, the work is subject to a request for a Certificate of Free Movement (European Community) or Certificate of Export (Extra-Community Transport) , at the export office (Superintendence of the territory) with the times and costs incurred ( € 300 / € 500, all included: shipping, packaging and particular exports) .