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Fedele FISCHETTI (Naples 1732-1792)
Venus ordering Solitude …
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Fedele FISCHETTI (Naples 1732-1792)
Venus ordering Solitude …
See original version (French)
Lot no. 23
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Fedele FISCHETTI (Naples 1732-1792)
Venus ordering Solitude and Sadness to punish
Psyche
On its original canvas.
52 x 64,5 cm
Related works: Psyché fustigée par la Solitude et la Tristesse sur l'ordre de Vénus, tapestry of high lice, wool and silk, dated
and silk, dated 1786 (6.02 x 5.10 m), Palazzo Reale di Napoli The best craftsmen of the Florence tapestry factory, closed
Florence, closed in October 1737 after the death of the last of the Medici, were called in by Charles de Bourbon,
sovereign of the newly independent kingdom of Naples, who invited them to his city. Together with the workshop managers, he set up low-wire looms and a factory next to the church of San Carlo alle Mortele. The king's architect, Luigi Vanvitelli, and the upholsterer Pietro Duranti entrusted the creation of new original cartoons to local painters such as Bonito and de Mura, and encouraged them to adopt the new light rocailles tones in vogue in Rome.
A close friend of Luigi Vanvitelli, Fedele Fischetti was commissioned to create new designs, notably for the cycle of ten hangings on the story of Psyche, woven between 1783 and 1787. Destined for Caserta, it is now on display at the
Palazzo Reale in Naples, in a trompe-l'oeil border decorated with garlands of flowers.
The subject is taken from Apuleius (The Golden Ass or Metamorphosis, The Tale of Love and Psyche). The episode developed here is
is the ordeal Psyche must undergo to regain the love of Eros, whom she has let escape after burning him with a drop of
a drop of hot wax while he was asleep. Mad with grief, she sets off in search of him, arriving at the palace of Venus, depicted here dressed in white on a cloud. The goddess then hands Psyche over to her servants, Tristesse and Solitude, who torment and abuse her, and beat her with rods (bottom right). The story has a happy ending, however, and the two fiancés are reunited and united by the gods of Olympus.
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