Scuola Europea (XIX) - Paesaggio italiano con borgo

Decorative Italian landscape. Oil on canvas: early 19th century.

In the pleasant composition proposed here, a serene rural landscape highlights the centrality of a seraphic village which opens into a clearing, bathed in a warm and soft light. The roofs of the two bell towers, a church and some country houses, with a typical Italian architectural conformation, stand out.
As in a theatrical choreography, the landscape-dispositional dimension enhances, in the foreground, the lush vegetation. A tree, whose branches are drawn with refined pictorial ability, highlights the coloristic compensation between the burnished foliage and the bright shades of the sky. What emerges is a great triumph of nature and its regenerated effects for those who observe the placid glimpse.

The painting, embellished with a fascinating crackle, presents some well-mimetic chromatic compensations.

The signature, shown in a photo with UV light, deserves detailed attribution.

The work is accompanied by a more recent frame with a beautiful and ancient patina.

It comes from a private Venetian collection.

Overall measurements 76cm x 56cm.