Giuseppe Nogari (1699 – 1763) - Ritratto di anziana

Giuseppe Nogari (Venice, 1699 – there, 3 June 1763)
Portrait of an old woman
Oil on canvas, 46 x 37. 5 cm
With frame, 64. 5 x 56 cm
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The canvas in question identifies the hand of Giuseppe Nogari (1699-1763) , a Venetian artist, strongly influenced by the works of Antonio Balestra and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, known above all for his portraits and half-figures of character, as in the painting here analyzed.
Nogari was famous for the creation of the so-called "character heads", such as the Writing Bishop and the Portrait of a Man with a Beard and Oriental Headdress, both from private collections. The character heads reflected the typically Venetian taste of the 1840s, also pursued with successful examples by Piazzetta and Tiepolo.
Nogari, whose portraits, like the present one under examination, were made in pale colors on dark backgrounds, had received the artistic imprinting from Antonio Balestra, as agreed by historical sources. After 1718 the artist instead shared the artistic dictates of Piazzetta, registering with the Fraglia of Venetian painters in 1726 with the beginning of his long-awaited artistic autonomy. When he ended up under the protective wing of Matthias von der Schulenburg he sent at least fourteen half-length portraits to Germany, now lost. He continued painting heads on behalf of the Royal House of Savoy and for Frederick Augustus II, Prince Elector of Saxony, as well as to satisfy the orders of the British consul in Venice Joseph Smith and his other patron Sigismund Streit.
The accurate and realistic figures of common people, often inspired by Rembrandt's models, which the artist knew from the drawings of Zaccaria Sagredo's collection, adhere to a particularly widespread fashion in Venice at the beginning of the 1940s, which they were associated with, among others , Giambattista Piazzetta, Giambattista Tiepolo and Bartolomeo Nazari. The elderly figure portrayed here exudes a strong expressiveness and is characterized by a painting with warm tones, embellished with subtle passages and soft shades. The woman emerges from a uniform background with a play of light and shadow that enhances her details.
Several works by Nogari are preserved today both in numerous public collections, such as the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, and private ones, such as the Algranti collection in Milan.
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