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Portrait of an Old Wom…
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GIUSEPPE NOGARI (Venice, 1699 - 1763)
Portrait of an Old Wom…
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Lot no. 57
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GIUSEPPE NOGARI
(Venice, 1699 - 1763)
Portrait of an Old Woman Sewing
Oil on canvas, 60.5X45.5 cm
Inscribed on the verso, SOI FARINELLO
Provenance:
Collection Carlo Maria Broschi alias Farinelli or Farinello (as inscribed on the verso)
With regard to Giuseppe Nogari's training, historical sources agree in considering him a pupil of Antonio Balestra, noting that as long as he remained at his school, 'he never gave signs of that egregious manner, tender, mellow, vague and natural, which he then formed himself' (Orlandi ; Guarienti, 1753, p. 235). This training is presumed to have continued until 1718 and was later refined with Piazzetta, while his registration at the Fraglia dei pittori veneziani in 1726 marks the beginning of his professional autonomy. The canvas under examination expresses the first manner of the artist, whose fame among his contemporaries is due to his peculiar talent in creating heads of character following the examples of Piazzetta and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, without neglecting the influence of Dutch models, especially Rembrandt's, which also characterised some of Maggiotto's works. According to Guarienti, it was the Milanese marquis Ottavio Casnedi who supported this attitude. Casnedi, 'very knowledgeable about art, and having observed in Nogari a certain spirit and grace in the making of half-figures, commissioned him to make several, on each of which, having told him his opinion and given him useful warnings, he took so much advantage of them that in a short time, with his new singular manner, he rose to a distinguished degree of reputation' (Orlandi; Guarienti, 1753).
Reference bibliography:
P.A. Orlandi, P. Guarienti, Abecedario pittorico accresciuto da Pietro Guarienti, Venice 1753, p. 235
R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, I, Milan 1995, pp. 570-578
R. Mangili, G. Pavanello, Teste di fantasia del Settecento veneziano, exhibition catalogue, Venice 2006, p. 118
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