Description:
Oil on canvas by Vincenzo Pacelli, depicting a handmaid wearing clothes from the Roman Empire, in the act of pouring, probably wine, into a cup. Vincenzo Pacelli, was a painter from Lazio, with a neoclassical taste, active between the mid-19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Uncle of Eugenio Pacelli, future Pope PIO XII, he was a predominantly ecclesiastical painter. Several large altarpieces of him are known to be located at the Diocese of Viterbo (the family was originally from Onano). "S. Isidoro Agricola canonized by Pope Gregory XV" of 1866 in Tarquinia. "Madonna Immacolata between S. Lorenzo and the Archangel Michael" of 1888, Diocese of Viterbo. "Baptism of S. Ermete with son and wife" of 1895, probably located at the church of the same name in Acquapendente (VT). Our painting, one of the rare examples of easel painting all executed for private commissions, can be dated between 1890 and 1895, precisely due to the stylistic assonance of this last altarpiece. The cup and the pouring device, decorated in the Etruscan style, and above all the model used, the same in both paintings (the earrings she wears are the same), can be compared. the painting comes from the hereditary division of a noble Roman family. Canvas measurements 95x53. Frame 107x64,
