The Annunciation, Neapolitan painter, late 17th - early 18th century

oil painting on canvas

The work, of high decorative value and certainly commissioned as an object of private devotion, shows the moment of the supreme Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, an evangelical episode here set on the two figures portrayed in the foreground, the Archangel Gabriel with spread wings, depicted with white lilies symbolizing purity, and the Virgin Mary kneeling before him observing him as a sign of devotion.

The detail of the virgin's lectern is highly expressive, made with a particular carving featuring a winged female figure with bare breasts, as is the mastery with which the drapery of the robes, especially the angel's, were rendered.

Observing the high quality stylistic characteristics, both from the point of view of compositional invention and from the point of view of execution, and the elegance, albeit simple, of the drawing, we are oriented towards bringing the area of ​​origin closer to a painter of Neapolitan origin between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the following century.

In particular, it easily approaches the stylistic outcome of Paolo De Matteis (Piano del Cilento, 1662 – Naples, 1728), Neapolitan by origin but who stayed in Rome from 1682 to 1683, a necessary experience given that in those years artistic culture recorded a happy oscillation between a luminous baroque language, with Cortonesque influences, and the overcoming of naturalism in the name of adhering to the new style imported from the Giordano.

An author who would mark the development of eighteenth-century Neapolitan art, his works have a strong narrative tone and a strong sentimental and emotional charge.

The characteristics of the canvas, for the treatment of light and figures, could date the work back to the artist's classicist period, therefore right between the two centuries.

Excellent storage conditions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The work is sold together with a pleasant gilded wooden frame and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and descriptive iconographic card.

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