Portrait of physician Dr. Franco Fustinoni prescribing a treatment based on medicinal plants.
Work by Antonio Brighenti (Clusone 1810-93) made in oil on canvas of cm.67 x 58.
Antonio Brighenti spent his entire career as a painter in his native Clusone (Bergamo), in contact with the rich artistic tradition of Bergamo.
Trained under the direction of Giuseppe Diotti at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where he was a fellow student of Piccio, Trécourt, Coghetti, etc., Brighenti was active in all pictorial genres required by the lively local clientele, including the ecclesiastical one, but it is in portraiture that he gave the best of his creative capacity.
The portraits of this painter offer us an extraordinary gallery of Bergamo characters around the mid-nineteenth century, of all social classes, simple and natural, never stereotyped, always captured with Orobie realism, graceful irony, and sincere psychological rendering.
The portrait presented here is one of the most successful, it can be dated around 1840 and is contained in a beautiful gilded and contemporary throat frame.
