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antichità castelbarco

SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 18° secolo - 1700 Antichità Castelbarco Riva del Garda Style: Luigi XIV Reggenza +39 0464 973235 393494296409 Height:105cm Width:91cm Material:Olio su tela Price:0€

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

Workshop of Carlo Cignani ( 1628 - Forlì 1719) Attributable to (Bologna 1648 - 1729) Portrait of Sibyl writing the prophecy oil painting on canvas, cm. 89 x 77 - framed cm. 105 x 91

Short video of the work: https://youtu.be/Z5lBLDVi2Fs

Details of the artwork: https://www.antichitacastelbarco.it/it/prodotto/la-sibilla-bottega- marcantonio-franceschini

This pleasant female portrait immortalizes a young Sibyl, presented in the act of drawing up her own prophecy (it is easy to read some words of a Latin phrase). From a monochrome background, presumably illuminated by a candle, the complexion of the girl stands out, dressed in a simple way, whose face is framed by a sophisticated hairstyle, gathered by ribbons and braids and fixed above the source by a jewel brooch.

It is a work of great charm, both for the immortalized subject and for the pictorial execution, which shows the peculiar characters of the , highlighting a good quality of drafting and drawing, as well as an elegant compositional balance, characters that they can only evoke the essential models of seventeenth-century classicism, conceived by the head of the school .

Going into the attributive detail, the canvas reveals strong stylistic and compositional affinities with the creations coming from the workshop of the master Carlo Cignani (Bologna 1628-Forlì 1719), so much so that the execution can be traced back to a painter from his close circle. In fact, he refers to the painter, who taught a group of valid students throughout his very long artistic activity, the typology of the faces and also the

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Although the attribution area has been identified, the work certainly deserves a more in- depth study to identify its hand with precision: lingering in the analysis of the painting, in our opinion the style and composition show surprising similarities with the works of Marcantonio Franceschini ( Bologna 1648 - 1729), one of Cignani's best pupils. By way of comparison, we can propose an interesting correlation between the work in question and Franceschini's Santa Cecilia, now a private collection, (Sotheby's, London 20 October 1971), where the same compositional detail is found in the hairstyle. Link: http: //catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/scheda/opera/57128/Franceschini%20Marca ntonio%2C%20Santa%20C ...

The painting is completed with a pleasant gilded frame.

For more information, please contact us. Painting accompanied by a certificate of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law (FIMA)

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