anticSwiss 28/09/2021 17:18:36 http://www.anticswiss.com 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 (Bologna 1628 - Forlì 1719) Attributable to Marcantonio Franceschini (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 Bolognese school, 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 Guido Reni. 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 1 / 4 anticSwiss 28/09/2021 17:18:36 http://www.anticswiss.com composition belonging to his figurative lexicon. 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) Follow us on: https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=it https://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/ https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/antichita-castelbarco-26200 2 / 4 anticSwiss 28/09/2021 17:18:36 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 4 anticSwiss 28/09/2021 17:18:36 http://www.anticswiss.com 4 / 4 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).