Pair of works 'Hunting scene' and 'Shepherds' rest'

18th century Piedmontese painter
Pendant of paintings
Landscape with boar hunting scene/ Landscape with pastoral scene
Oils on canvas, 66 x 132 cm, in a 68 x 134 frame

We show you this pleasant pendant of paintings, characterized by a clear atmosphere and a delicate chromatic harmony, in perfect harmony with the rocaille taste of the Savoy capital of the middle of the second half of the 18th century, and comparable to a painter from Piedmont, presumably active in Turin in this period.
The first work, with a pastoral and Arcadian character, shows a small group of shepherds, intent on watching over their animals: the romantic theater in which a shepherd on horseback sings a song to cheer up the rest of his companions makes the scene charming. In the second work, however, the composition is centered on the lively and rich group of hunters who, armed with swords and spears and with the help of hunting dogs, have surrounded the wild boars.
The style of our two canvases, as well as the type of subject represented, evokes the compositions of Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin, 1730 – 1800) with the illustrative tradition addressed several times by the author, the main landscape painter of the Piedmontese Rococo, as remembered in the canvases created for the Palazzine di Stupinigi and Racconigi.
His technical ability and his rigorous craft earned him the esteem of the Savoy court and consequently of the Piedmontese nobles. His workshop expanded considerably due to the numerous commissions, leading him to avail himself of the help of a considerable number of workers, apprentices and professional painters who deal with landscapes, figures or costumes according to their specialization, so it becomes difficult to establish whether a work is a workshop work or that of an independent painter.
Paintings of this format and of these subjects, often created in groups, were commissioned to be placed in palaces or small castles in Piedmont and Lombardy. Shape and dimensions would suggest that the canvases were originally placed as overdoors, or created to embellish part of a boiserie.

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Painting accompanied by a certificate of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law (FIMA – CINOA)