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(Bologna, 1628 – Forlì, 1719)
Madonna and Child
Oil on canvas, cm. 37x50
NOTES: Publication of the catalog of works from the Intermidiart collection. Certificate of Guarantee and Lawful Origin; Unframed artwork:
Ancient painting - perhaps intended for private devotion or for an amateur, given its small size - depicting an iconographic subject that takes up a very widespread and tested pattern in the 17th-18th centuries. The painting is in a good state of legibility and places the Virgin and Child at the center of a composition: in the case in question, it refers to a legendary stop of the Holy Family, which took place according to Christian tradition during the return journey after the flight to Egypt. .
With regard to the stylistic features of this panel, probably intended to decorate the altar of a noble chapel, we are faced with a representation that was performed by an artist from the central Italian school, endowed with good technical and stylistic skills. The illustrative model seems to reveal its Bolognese origin, which formed in Emilia in the seventeenth century, evokes the style of Cignani's works. The work with an intimate and softly chiaroscuro tone documents the artist's balance between naturalistic taste and the desire to idealize his devotional images. In this case we note his propensity to re-read the pictorial texts of Correggio, Guarcino and Annibale Carracci.
Therefore, it is a work that embodies the best teachings of the Bolognese school and it is assumed that the hypothesis of limiting its execution to a follower of Carlo Cignani (Bologna, 1628 - Forlì, 1719) is correct; in fact, it refers to the painter both for the compositional and stylistic characters, and in the representation of the subject.
Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter, considered the greatest Bolognese painter who died in the 18th century. Art historians credit Cignani with having led a stylistic and taste change that took place around 1670 in the context of the Bolognese school, which made it possible to distance the painters from the influences of the Renian tradition and bring them closer to the academic spirit. Trained with Giovanni Battista del Cairo and with Francesco Albani, he was strongly influenced by Annibale Carracci, Correggio and, for the perspective from below as well as for the use of colour, by the works of Melozzo da Forlì. Cignani, therefore, also entered the tradition of the Forlì school, to whose development he contributed with his own work. After the strongly Baroque works of his youth in Bologna, he worked in Rome from 1662 where he was prince of the Accademia di San Luca in 1710. From 1665 he was active again in Bologna, then in Parma (1678-1681).
With regard to its state of conservation, the canvas is in a fairly good state of conservation. The pictorial surface has a patina. We note - in Wood's light - some scattered restorations (with restoration points spread across different parts of the canvas) and some unveiling and oxidation of the pictorial surface. The painting may need interventions, for further insights into the attribution study. Twentieth-century refurbishment. The frame may have been replaced at the time of the relining. The measurements of the canvas are cm. 37 x 50. The painting is sold without a frame, although it is embellished with a new gilded and perforated frame in the Baroque style (frame size approx. 72 x 60 x 6 cm).
Provenance: Coll. private
Publication:
? Unreleased;
? The Myths and the Territory in Sicily with a thousand cultures. UNEDITED QUADRERIA general catalog of paintings from the collection of the cycle "Myths and the territory", Editore Lab_04, Marsala, 2023.
Upon request, the buyer can ask for the purchase of the frame (as shown in the photo), (the dimensions of the frame are approx. 72 x 60 x 6 cm), for € 450.00.
We also guarantee careful packaging with bubble wrap / cardboard / polystyrene (packaging cost approximately € 50.00) and tracked shipping (€ 50.00 Italy). For export, the work is subject to a request for a Certificate of Free Circulation (European Community) or a Certificate of Export (Extra Community Transport), at the export office (Superintendency of the territory) with the times and costs burdened ( €300/€900, all included: shipping, packing in wooden crates and export parts).
The shipment could be delayed by a few days/weeks for logistical and administrative reasons. 67497987
