Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso 1784) – Landscapes with washerwomen.

Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso 1784) – Landscapes with washerwomen.

41 x 56 cm without frame, 49,5 x 64,5 cm with frame.

Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.

Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface.

Giuseppe Zais (1709–1781) was one of the most celebrated Venetian landscape painters, known for his depictions of bucolic scenes featuring stylised figurines of shepherds, flocks and washerwomen, set in an idyllic rural landscape inspired by the Venetian countryside.

He trained in Venice, where he observed the works of his illustrious predecessor Marco Ricci, from whom he clearly drew inspiration, and was a contemporary of Francesco Zuccarelli, from whom he derived the grace that characterizes his most refined works. Zais's style was distinguished by a more authentically rural depiction of the Arcadian landscape than that of his contemporaries: his compositions, though Rococo-inspired, are imbued with a different sense of realism, brought about by the use of bolder, browner tones and a textured, textured application of color.

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