Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso 1784) – Landscape with shepherdesses and village in the background.

Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso 1784) – Landscape with shepherdesses and village in the background.

54,5 x 71 cm (without frame) – 72 x 90 cm (with frame).

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

Giuseppe Zais is among the most celebrated landscape painters of the 18th-century Venetian school, known for his depictions of bucolic scenes with stylized figures 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 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: the compositions, although Rococo-inspired, are pervaded by a different sense of realism, given by the use of bolder, browner tones and by a material, thick application of colour.
The painting, confidently attributed to Giuseppe Zais, depicts a river landscape enlivened by a group of figures in the foreground: two women seated on the bank and a third standing with a basket. In the background, herds of sheep can be seen drinking from the stream, led by a shepherd. The composition concludes on the right with a medieval village composed of rural buildings, a bell tower, and architectural ruins, immersed in autumnal vegetation, rendered with the loose, earthy brushwork typical of the Belluno artist's mature work.

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

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