Zuccarelli Francesco Landscape with figures
oil on canvas Measures: h 71 x 81 cm In excellent condition.
Zuccarèlli Francesco - (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788). Painter and engraver.
He was a pupil in Florence of Paolo Aresi and in Rome of G. M. Monaldi and P. Nelli. He traveled throughout Italy. In Rome he studied the landscapes of the Lorenese and A. Locatelli and the views of G. P. Pannini, in Venice, where he went after 1730 (registered with the Fraglia dei pittori, 1736), he underwent the influence of Marco Ricci. He worked in Bergamo (1736, 1747, 1748, 1751), finding help and protection from Count Fr. M. Tassi. In 1752 and 1768 he went to London and these were the most fortunate years of his busy artistic career; then he returned to Venice (1763), after having also visited Paris, Germany, and the Netherlands. His landscapes, animated by figures, treated with a light and airy touch, are of a pleasant decorative effect: the heroic and romantic spirit of M. Ricci's landscapes transforms into Arcadian grace.
He dedicated himself especially to landscape painting and was airy in space, with a tasteful color in pastoral and mythological scenes where the most attractive decorative effect predominates. Thus his compositions, treated with such ease of touch and inspiration, satisfied the refinements of collectors and amateurs, entered elegant salons and were reproduced and disseminated by numerous chalcographers and engravers such as F. Bartolozzi, F. W. Wagner and others. In Italy his works can be found in Alessandria, Ascoli Piceno, Bassano, Bergamo, Bologna, Brescia, Milan, Modena, Parma, Pisa, Rome, Strà, Turin, Treviso, Venice, Vercelli; and abroad: in Hamburg, Avignon, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Cambridge, Graz, Leningrad, London, Munich, New York, Oxford, Paris, Rouen, Valenciennes, Vienna. Among the best paintings, we can mention those of the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Windsor Castle, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Borromeo collection on Isola Bella, the Sforza Castle in Milan, the Galleries of Venice. Eminently pictorial are his bistre and color gouache drawings which are found numerous, especially in the collections of the Uffizi and the British Museum in London.
